I'm very happy to introduce Monet Moutrie, a remarkable woman who will be partnering here as a media intern. Starting this August, Monet will be writing a regular column that will focus on immigration literature, comparing classic texts of dislocation and diaspora with contemporary ones that perhaps tell a different story. (She tells of taking a literature class where the 'contemporary' book on immigration was published 50-some years ago.) Monet will also be helping out in creating clean publication archives and developing a resource list of journalism fellowships that will be available and updated regularly on Isak.
This fall, Monet is entering the MFA program in fiction writing at Texas State University; she is preparing to move to Austin as I type. She graduated from the University of Colorado - Denver with a degree in English/Creative Writing and a minor in women's studies. Her honors thesis focused on post-colonial Caribbean female authors, especially Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat. Monet has served as the fiction editor of Copper Nickel, through which she organized the three-day "Women Writing in the West" symposium, and she has published her own stories in Mason's Road and the anthology Paradigm Volume I. Monet is also an avid baker and reader -- both of which she blogs about on her own energetic site.
In general, she's pretty much awesome and I'm very grateful to be working with her. You'll be hearing more from Monet soon!
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