Embarking on a Low-Residency MFA In Fiction

Here are a few lessons learned from my first MFA residency.

Paris, France | January 2023 | Photo by Author

I’m really excited to finally start my MFA in Fiction. This is something I’ve been chasing since 2017. It was, ironically, crushing depression from being rejected from PhDs one year and then MFAs the next that drove me to start my Instagram poetry account because I felt like I had nothing to…