Gabriel Bump’s utopian vision within his sophomore novel, The New Naturals, was much-appreciated by UMass Living Writers classes, and I...

“Young people making bad decisions — what’s not interesting about that?” — Andrea Lawlor I spent my afternoon with UMass’s Living Writers...

Dorothea Lasky came to visit us at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as the second guest of the MFA program’s Visiting Writers...

“I am against taboos. I am against the should-nots. I am against the shoulds.” — Lisa Olstein Lisa Olstein reminds me of the poet I’d...