Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

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Askold Melnyczuk, Fiction

Melnyczuk's second novel, Ambassador of the Dead, was a Los Angeles Times Best of the Year for 2002. His first, What Is Told, was a New York Times Notable Book. Excerpts from his third, Blind Angels, have appeared or are forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, Denver Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and as a chapbook from Pressed Wafer. His work has been translated into Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian. His stories, essays, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The LA Times, Gettysburg Review, Pequod, Antioch Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Index on Censorship, and elsewhere. In 1997 he received a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award in Fiction, and he has also received the McGinnis Prize in Fiction and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Melnyczuk has edited four books: three volumes in Take Three: The New Poets Annual for Graywolf Press and From Three Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Literature. He holds an MA from the writing program at Boston University. He has taught at Harvard and at Boston University, where he edited Agni, a literary magazine he founded in 1972. He currently directs the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts.p>

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