writing for young people

• "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." --C. S. Lewis

 

• "I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value."-- R. L. Stine

 

• "Sure, it's simple, writing for kids. Just as simple as bringing them up.” Ursula K. Le Guin

We are pleased to announce that we will be offering Writing for Young People as a new area of concentration this summer residency for our M.F.A. students.  Our faculty mentor for this area of concentration will be Lorraine López.

 

Lorraine López is Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review . Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner , Voices of Mexico , CrazyHorse, Image, Cimarron Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly/Narrative Magazine , and Latino Boom . Her short story collection, Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories (Curbstone, 2002) won the inaugural Miguel Marmól prize for fiction. Her second book, Call Me Henri (Curbstone Press 2006) was awarded the Paterson Prize for Young Adult Literature this spring. Her novel, The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters will be released in fall of 2008 from Grand Central Press. She lives in Nashville , Tennessee with her husband, Louis Siegel.