LOLA Italy Writing Residence Fellowships for 2012 Announced

The 2012 LOLA Italy Residence Fellowships have been awarded to the following NMSU MFA candidates:

Sessily Watt is most recently from Chicago, IL, where she spent three years working with a small group of dedicated writers before deciding to study writing in an academic setting. She is in her second semester in the MFA program at NMSU.

Angela Simental is an MA student focusing on fiction. She received her undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communications in 2008.

Floydd Michael Elliott is originally from Portland, OR, and is currently working on his MFA (with an emphasis in Creative Writing: Poetry) here at NMSU. He’s a father, husband, poet, writer, teacher, and student coordinator for La Sociedad Para Las Artes – the English department’s community outreach program.  His work has appeared in Sin Frontiers/Writer’s Without Borders and DIN.  

For more information about the residency, visit: http://summerwritingretreat.com/the-retreat-centers/spannocchia-tuscany-july-3-17-2012/