Deniz Perin LIVE in Steaming Video on THE LATENT PRINT

One of our fab alumni is the latest addition to the Latent Print arts website--hit the image to the left to be connected. Perin is a graduate of our MFA in Creative Writing.

Deniz Perin is a poet and translator living in San Diego. Her work has been published in several literary journals, including Runes, The Atlanta Review, Sentence, and Pacific Review, as well as in the anthology, A Year in Ink, vol. II. She teaches in the English Department at the University of San Diego.

Lisa Hemminger in the Mississippi Review! Kudos! Cheers!

A giant tip of the hat to Lisa Hemminger, a recent SDSU MFA Poetry graduate and an outstanding member of our faculty, for her publication in The Mississippi Review.

Click the image below to read her most recently published poem


You can always learn more about our cool MFA Program here.

literature.sdsu.edu welcomes DIANE ACKERMAN to SDSU

MFA Professor Marilyn Chin Finalist in California Poet Laureate Selection

Professor Marilyn Chin may soon be adding yet another prestigious award to her well established collection (from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others). Chin has been nominated along with three other finalists to represent California as the state's Poet Laureate. Next in the rigorous selection of Poet Laureate, Governor Schwarzenegger will choose one of the four finalists to ultimately represent the state. Then the state senate will need to approve his decision. SHE, or he will maintain the position for two years. The mission of the Poet Laureate is "to spread the art of poetry from classrooms to boardrooms across the state, to inspire an emerging generation of literary artists and to educate all Californians about the many poets and authors who have influenced our great state through creative literary expression."

Professor Chin has taught creative writing at SDSU since 1989. Throughout her time here she has shared her recognition and artistic connections to the great benefit of the MFA program and SDSU as a whole. Her nomination reminds us of the caliber of the institution we belong to and the amazing professors we are fortunate to learn from.

A Demonstration of English Degree Earning Potential

Piotr Florcyzk has recieved a $3,000 Emerging Professional Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. This accolade is mentioned on page 80 of the 2008 Summer Reading Issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Florczyk is a native of Poland, a graduate of University of the Pacific and received a master's degree in creative writing-poetry from San Diego State University. Currently Florczyk is a part-time Instructor in English at the University of Delaware.