Music Professor Steve Hilmy Reads a Poem
GW English Alum CJ Powell GW English Alum CJ Powell: “Two of the investment banking managing directors in Project Finance with whom I worked had Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Dance“ Like a lot of our department’s majors, CJ Powell (she was then CJ Hall) headed for New York City with an interest in…
Jeffrey Gorsky with his daughters Jeffrey Gorsky graduated with honors in English from GW in 1974; he went on to get a GW law degree and to pursue a varied career in the foreign service. Throughout his travels, his GW experience (especially his time in Judith Plotz’s classroom) stayed with him; and indeed he’s currently a…
It is with great sadness that we announce that Hache (H.G.) Carrillo, a former professor of creative writing at GW English and Board Member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, passed away last week. Author of Loosing My Espanish (2005), and numerous works of short fiction, Carrillo’s oeuvre explores Afro-Cuban American immigrant experience and the complexities of…
Stephanie Gardner (BA ’08) STEPHANIE GARDNER: ‘Soak up the world. Really look, really listen.’ Since Stephanie Gardner graduated from our department, she’s been a busy and prolific filmmaker based in New York City. (You can check out her website here.) We talked to her about film, literature, and her GW English department experience. You’re doing all sorts…
Avra Bossov is a senior in GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs, majoring in Political Communications with minors in Sustainability and Mind-Brain Studies. In addition to her past involvement with House Staff, APO, and Alternative Breaks, Avra currently serves as the Executive Vice President of GW’s Student Association. In honor of National Poetry Month,…
George Washington University’s 2007 Creative Writing Graduate, Natalie Lund, has recently had her YA contemporary, magical realism debut novel, We Speak in Storms, picked up by Philomel Books. Publishers Weekly recently described Ms. Lund’s book as, “Moving between two timelines, and the alternating perspectives of three teens and a town’s lost generation, the story takes place after a tornado…