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Writing seminars

In memoriam

Longtime Writing Sems professor Stephen Dixon dies at 83

Published Nov 8, 2019

Dixon, who authored 17 novels and more than 500 short stories, remembered as a thoughtful, generous teacher who mentored countless accomplished writers

Memoir

From Russia, with laughs

Published Spring 2019

In her new memoir, Alum Audrey Murray journeys through the former Soviet Union / Johns Hopkins Magazine

The fan in the econ stands

Published Winter 2018

P.J. O'Rourke talks about learning economics in war zones, how politics and economics intertwine, and how to know when something's funny / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Reading series

Lorrie Moore's truth is stranger than fiction

Published Oct 10, 2018

Best-selling author reads from her new collection of essays during her talk at JHU

Q+A

Talking with Dora Malech

Published Fall 2018

Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Literature

Discourse on (Dis)Ability

Published May 21, 2018

Emily Dorffer compiled and edited the '(Dis)Ability' anthology to encourage more accurate portrayals of disabled people in literature

Q+A

A tale of medical underdogs

Published April 20, 2018

New memoir by JHU writer-in-residence reflects on his younger brother's cancer diagnosis and the doctors who transformed the treatment of childhood leukemia