Editor Ashley Cowger holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her short fiction has appeared in various small literary journals. Ashley’s experiences in an MFA program completely changed the way she understands the art and business of writing. These experiences left her with a keen interest in the different paths writers take to study their craft and led her to found MFA/MFYou in the hopes to explore these different paths.  

Ashley writes our MFA/MFYou Newsletter, where you can read and comment on weekly posts about her experiences in and out of an MFA program, and her thoughts on what can be gained from each path. http://mfamfyou-mfa.blogspot.com/

Ashley also posts monthly updates about her process and progress as a new fiction writer in her MFA/MFYou Process Blog. http://theprocessistheproduct.blogspot.com/ Learn more about Process Blogs and how to start your own at our MFA/MFYou Community page.

Poetry Editor Damien Cowger’s career as a writer began in fourth grade when he wrote a ghost story and won first prize for best Halloween story. After his first taste of small scale success, Damien kept writing to entertain himself as well as his peers. When he got to college however, he was told by an ignorant counselor that there was no such thing as a degree in Creative Writing so he got a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Northern Arizona University. After meeting his future wife in 2005, he learned that there was life beyond his high school writing and learned how to submit some of his work. Ever since, he’s been trying to make it in a world of highly educated writers, his wife included, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous small journals.  He graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a certificate in Automotive Technology but decided to give up his job as a maintenance mechanic at a rental car company to enter into an MA program in Creative Writing – Poetry at Ohio University. Damien writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

In Damien’s Thoughts on the World around Him blog he talks about his experiences outside and inside an MA Creative Writing program. http://damiencowger.blogspot.com/