Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Stonecoast MFA Commencement Speeches

Each Stonecoast commencement features a brief address by a student in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/popular fiction as well as a faculty speaker. The faculty speaker is chosen by the student body at large, and the student speakers are chosen by their peers in their genre. We are proud to post the faculty and student commencement addresses here:

Joan Connor, Faculty Speaker (PDF)

Joanna Solfrian, Poetry (PDF)

Kim Dana Kupperman, Nonfiction (PDF)

James Sprouse, Fiction (PDF)

Suzanne Strempek Shea, Faculty Speaker (PDF)

Brenda Prescott, Fiction (PDF)

Rick Wile, Nonfiction (PDF)

Baron Wormser, Faculty Speaker (PDF)
Sarah Arnold, Nonfiction (PDF)
Chris Daly, Fiction/Popular Fiction (PDF)
Melanie Drane, Poetry (PDF)

Elizabeth Searle, Faculty Speaker (PDF)
Sharon Doucet, Fiction (PDF)
David Page, Popular Fiction (PDF)
Richard Hoffman, Faculty Speaker

Leslea Newman, Fiction (PDF)