Meet Our Coalition of Writers
Nynke Passi (she/her) is co-chair of MIU’s English department, founder of MIU’s creative writing programs, and director of the MIU’s MFA in Creative Writing and the Soul Bone Literary Festival. She holds a graduate degree from San Francisco State University and has been published in CALYX, Gulf Coast, Poetry Breakfast, and more. Her work has been anthologized in The Anthology of New England Writers, River of Earth & Sky, Carrying the Branch, among other places. She was a finalist in the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize of The Missouri Review both in ‘14 and in ‘22.
Jennifer Espinoza (she/her) is our full time MFA faculty. She has mentored in our program in poetry and multi-genre and teaches many of our online courses, including a new course called “Writing Consciousness: A Queer Study of Emily Dickinson.” She is a trans woman poet and author of THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019). She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of California at Riverside. Her most recent publication is “Everybody at the Same Time is Beginning to Understand There is No Such Thing as a Self” in Gulf Coast. Her newest book is forthcoming from Alice James Books.
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Mark also has an extensive history as a screenwriter, writing the scripts for movies such as An Unfinished Life and Everything that Rises.
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