{"id":11191,"date":"2022-08-10T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=11191"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:31:37","slug":"meghana-mysore-m-f-a-22-awarded-steinbeck-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/meghana-mysore-m-f-a-22-awarded-steinbeck-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghana Mysore M.F.A. &#8217;22 Awarded Steinbeck Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meghana_Mysore_300x350.jpg\" alt=\"Meghana Mysore M.F.A. '22\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meghana_Mysore_300x350.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meghana_Mysore_300x350-214x250.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<span class=\"edgtf-dropcaps edgtf-normal\" style=\"color: #333333\">\n\tT<\/span>he Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jos\u00e9 State University has named Meghana Mysore M.F.A. \u201922 one of six Steinbeck Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. Named in honor of American author John Steinbeck, the fellowship offers creative writers of any age and educational background a $15,000 grant to finish a major writing project. Fellows typically reside in the San Jos\u00e9 area to attend in-person workshops and campus community events, but participation will be virtual for 2022-23 due to ongoing COVID-19 complications.<\/p>\n<p>As a Steinbeck Fellow, Mysore will continue work on her M.F.A. thesis, a novel-in-stories currently titled <i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Delayed Connections<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. \u201cThe book follows an Indian-American family in the Pacific Northwest, and explores questions of loss, desire, and joy in this family, along with the ways in which the external world of the very white suburb where they live acts on the dynamics between the family members,\u201d she said. \u201cThe stories deal mostly with three characters and the gap between the two generations of this family, and the ways in which they can\u2019t communicate. It\u2019s thinking a lot about communication and what we\u2019re willing to confess to strangers, versus the people closest to us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jos\u00e9 State University has named Meghana Mysore M.F.A. \u201922 one of six Steinbeck Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. Named in honor of American author John Steinbeck, the fellowship offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,130],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-11191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-homepage-side","tag-summer-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}