Creative Writing Program New Student Reading

Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett

Gillian Flannery Grace Bennett is a Boston-born, Florida-raised writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an M.Phil in Film Studies & Screenwriting from Trinity College Dublin.

As both a Southerner and an Irish-American, she brings a unique transatlantic perspective to her work, using fantasy & a Southern Gothic lens to explore the deep connections between the American South and Ireland. Her research & writing aim to break down reductive stereotypes, examine the importance of natural landscapes, and highlight the quiet magic of overlooked cultures and real people, whose stories are too often left untold.

Anindit Dutta

Anindit Dutta is a fiction writer from Guwahati who is currently working on a book-length project that explores the collective curiosity of rural river islands in Assam facing environmental and political consequences through a cohesive interface of folklore and realism. He graduated from the New Writers Project at University of Texas at Austin and has edited fiction at the Bat City Review.

HUNTER GREY

Hunter Grey is a Tennessee-born poet. He holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and an MTS from Boston University. He is currently pursuing a PhD at UGA. His first chapbook is forthcoming in 2025 with Finishing Line Press.

Matthew Moore

Matthew Moore is the author of a poetry collection, The Reckoning of Jeanne d'Antietam (University of Nevada Press). He is the translator of Opera Buffa by Tomaž Šalamun (Black Ocean) and Padova by Igo Gruden (Adjunct Press).

Javier Sandoval

Javier Sandoval grew up in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and now teaches at the University of Georgia. His work appears in Best American Poetry, Narrative, swamp pink, Massachusetts Review, and Gulf Coast, among others, and his chapbook, Blue Moon Looming (CutBank), was named a Top Ten Debut by Latino Stories and praised by José Olivarez as 'poetry for the unruly, and yes, the brilliant among us.' But mostly, he loves to smoke on the stoop with his lady.