Kudos to Fresno Writers – October/November 2020

January 19, 2021.Reading time 14 minutes.

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

Four creative writing alumni publish first books in 2019-20

December 16, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

head shots of Ashley Wells, Anthony Cody, Erik Wilbur, and Monique Quintana.

Four alumni authors from Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing published their first books in 2019 and 2020, including National Book Award for Poetry finalist Anthony Cody.

Poet alumnus wins regional award for distinguished master’s thesis

December 4, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Just one week after his first book finished as a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, author and Fresno State alumnus Anthony Cody’s yet-to-be-published second book won a top regional award for distinguished master’s thesis.

Fresno State alumnus Anthony Cody finishes as finalist for National Book Award for Poetry, shares influential books

November 19, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

Anthony Cody - National Book Award finalist

Dressed up in black, with a bowtie, burgundy jacket and matching burgundy Pumas, author and Fresno State alumnus Anthony Cody waited with anticipation in the virtual green room for the 71st National Book Awards to be announced.

Poet Alumnus Named Finalist for National Book Award

October 9, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Anthony Cody in front of stairs at Fresno State.

Author and Fresno State alumnus Anthony Cody’s debut poetry collection, “Borderland Apocrypha,” has been named a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.

El Nuevo Huevo Book Hatching: Juan Felipe Herrera and Anthony Cody

September 22, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

The book hatching will be a virtual gathering to launch the recent publication of poets Juan Felipe Herrera and Anthony Cody’s new poetry collections, “Every Day We Get More Illegal” and “Borderland Apocrypha.”

Fresno State alumni earn national literary honors

September 21, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Fresno State alumni authors Anthony Cody and Sara Borjas were recognized with national praise for their debut poetry collections.

#FresnoWriters Live with Anthony Cody

June 19, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Fresno State Creative Writing Alumni Chapter presents #FresnoWriters Live, a virtual reading to celebrate the new poetry collection “Borderland Apocrypha,” the debut book from Fresno writer Anthony Cody. The reading will be held at 8 p.m., Thursday, June 25 on Zoom.

Graduate Dean’s Medalist | Anthony Cody, Department of English, MFA Creative Writing Program

March 28, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Anthony Cody, Department of English, MFA Creative Writing Student of Distinction

“I am an anomaly. And because I am an anomaly, I will continue to create forward, give to poetry, make poems, explore the experimental, nurture spaces for communities on the margins, and foster the truths and anomalies in others through mentoring, workshops, and universities.”