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by Dinty W. Moore Dr. Maggie Messitt ’17, a graduate of the English Ph.D. program in Creative Writing, was named national director of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. Report for America is a newly launched national service program deploying outstanding emerging and established journalists into newsrooms around […]

Maggie Messitt, an English doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program, was awarded the John Cady Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. Her project—”Art(i)fact: An Atlas of my Search“—is the story of her aunt, a missing person, and the journey to find her. In 2009, my aunt, an artist, […]

The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, a new work of literary journalism by Maggie Messitt, releases in April. Messitt is a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the […]

  “I am an MFA dropout,” writes Maggie Messitt, a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Her column “In Defense of the Low-Res MFA” appears on the Brevity blog. …Still, I was convinced that graduate school was my next step. I wanted to tell true stories. After […]

Graduate student Maggie Messitt published three essays recently. Messitt is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. An independent narrative and immersion journalist, she has spent the last decade reporting from inside under-served communities in southern Africa and middle America. Typically […]

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]