Kudos to Fresno writers — Spring 2025

From left: English Department alumni Mialise Carney, Alea Droker, and Mercedez Espino are all headed for advanced post-baccalaureate studies in the fall.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and Department of English.

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Finding Humanity in Prison

Fresno State debate students enter the prison yard through a dark tunnel with chainlink gate.

While the bachelor’s degree looks great on paper to the parole board, the humanities courses have taught incarcerated individuals to reflect on their past and write their own story for their future. 

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Undocupoets co-founder headlines English Department spring literary lineup

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in black and white

Fresno State’s Department of English welcomes 10 acclaimed authors and scholars this spring for campus visits, including the poet and translator Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, the co-founder of Undocupoets, a collective that brings recognition to works written by undocumented poets and spreads awareness about the societal barriers they face as writers.

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Kudos to Fresno writers — Fall 2024

Graphic image with headshots of Samantha Golden, Kenyeih Williams, Kayla Mendoza, and Mary Sosa as photo cutouts of a background of cutout paper scraps

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and Department of English.

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English Major Out in the World: Kayla Mendoza

Kayla Mendoza in front of a large bookshelf.

Fresno State alumna Kayla Mendoza decided that she wanted to get out of her comfort zone and travel to new and different places, so she landed a teaching job at an English language academy in Seoul, South Korea.

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English symposium examines translation as cultural and political force

University of Virginia associate professor Carmen Lamas

Author, translator, and University of Virginia associate professor Carmen Lamas will deliver the keynote address for Fresno State’s eighth annual Students of English Studies Association symposium on December 12 and 13. The theme for this year’s SESA symposium is “Translations.”

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