<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Considering applying to graduate school for creative writing?</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">This program at New Mexico State University is interested in receiving an application from you.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Their faculty include a fabulous Cherokee novelist and short story writer<a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/brandon-hobson.html"> Brandon Hobson</a> who has guested for UCR Writers Week Festival and <a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/connie-voisine.html">Connie Voisine</a> who directs the MFA, founded Zoeglossia for disabled poets, and is Poetry Editor for Zocálo Public Square. Both are phenomenal.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Program information follows:</font></p><div class="gmail-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:266px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px">Connie Voisine</h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Professor</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Director of Creative Writing</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Poetry, Hybrid Writing, Literary Adaptation, Translation</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:cvoisine@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">cvoisine@nmsu.edu</a></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:246px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/brandon-hobson.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Brandon Hobson</a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Assistant Professor</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Editor/advisor, Puerto del Sol</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Fiction and Creative Writing</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:bwhobson@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">bwhobson@nmsu.edu</a></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:280px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/richard-greenfield.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Richard Greenfield</a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Professor</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Poetry, Ecopoetics, Sound and Poetry, Publishing</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:rgreenfi@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">rgreenfi@nmsu.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:246px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/rus-bradburd.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Rus Bradburd</a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Professor</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Director, La Sociedad para las Artes</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Fiction and Nonfiction</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:rus.bradburd@gmail.com" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">rus.bradburd@gmail.com</a></p><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:186px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 class="gmail-card-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/aldo-ampar%C3%A1n.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Aldo Amparán</a></h2><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:aldo@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">aldo@nmsu.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:186px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/faculty-pages/phil-hurst.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Phil Hurst</a></h2><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Visiting Assistant Professor in Fiction</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><a href="mailto:pkhurst@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">pkhurst@nmsu.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:206px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 class="gmail-card-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/facultyandstaff/faculty/lanasa-amy.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Amy Lanasa</a></h2><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-text-muted gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(114,114,114)">Department Head<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span>Faculty and Staff<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a class="gmail-ng-binding" href="mailto:amyla@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">amyla@nmsu.edu</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px">(575) 646-6142</small><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box">|<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span>Milton Hall 172-A</small></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:206px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 class="gmail-card-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/facultyandstaff/faculty/lapid-ilana.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Ilana Lapid</a></h2><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-text-muted gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(114,114,114)">Associate Professor<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span>Faculty and Staff<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a class="gmail-ng-binding" href="mailto:ilapid@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">ilapid@nmsu.edu</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px">(575) 646-5652</small><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box">|<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span>Office: MH 170</small></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-col-sm-4 gmail-col-full-height" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:390px;height:206px;vertical-align:middle"><div class="gmail-panel gmail-panel-default" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><div class="gmail-panel-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px"><h2 class="gmail-card-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(68,68,68);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:40px"><a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/facultyandstaff/faculty/marks-ross.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">Ross Marks</a></h2><div class="gmail-card-text gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-text-muted gmail-ng-binding" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(114,114,114)">Assistant Professor<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span>Faculty and Staff<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a class="gmail-ng-binding" href="mailto:rossm@nmsu.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(136,35,69);text-decoration:none">rossm@nmsu.edu</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px">(575) 646-7472</small><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><small class="gmail-ng-binding gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11.9px"><span class="gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing:border-box">|<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span>Office: MH 172-C </small></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">We’re a small, vibrant program located near the US-Mexico border in a fun, livable, and affordable city. Please forward this email to anyone who is looking for a good place to get their degree in creative writing. We'd also be happy to email or speak with anyone who has questions about our program or life in Las Cruces as a writer. Our deadline is February 21, though extensions may be possible.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">We offer a generous graduate assistantship, small classes and opportunities to teach a variety of undergraduate classes including creative writing. A three-year program, our MFA allows students to complete coursework in the first two years, allowing a full year to develop a manuscript. Students teach <i>only one class per semester</i> and have time to learn publishing and outreach, diversifying their skill sets. <i>SInce our program is now a part of the Creative Media Institute at NMSU, </i>students have increased opportunities to build a degree that suits their creative goals. They can work with screenwriters, television writers, and will have internship opportunities in film production, festival management, and documentary film. Check out our new location:   <a href="https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/creative-writing.html" target="_blank">https://cmi.nmsu.edu/cmi/mfa-cw/creative-writing.html</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Our former students have published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, are produced playwrights, and have won awards including the Drue Heinz Prize, Black Lawrence Prize, and Nelson Algren Story award for Fiction. We’ve placed students as Fulbright scholars, Breadloaf Fellows, and in Ph.D. programs.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">We’d be delighted to have your creative friends apply to our flexible and genre-rich MFA degree. Please suggest to any who are interested to reach out to me (<a href="mailto:cvoisine@nmsu.edu" target="_blank">cvoisine@nmsu.edu</a>), and I'll be more than happy to talk to them. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="aria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