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Why Baxter Fears the Kremlin

If you ask, fiction faculty Charles Baxter will tell you that his new novel The Soul Thief is about "crazy love versus domestic, ordinary love." Baxter's handling of love and fixation in The Soul Thief has already earned this praise from the Seattle Post Intelligencer: "Few American writers handle those compelling subjects with a more sure touch or more worthy insight." And The New York Times Book Review calls it “gloriously done.” One of Baxter's former WW MFA students Jason Githens (fiction '07) interrogated Baxter about why he didn't quit writing and why he refuses to use Microsoft products.

Friends of Writers

Our Mission

Friends of Writers enriches American poetry and fiction by cultivating new and vital literary voices. We support the students, alumni and faculty of our partner, the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. The MFA Program pioneered a model of low-residency study based on three core values: community, rigor, and diversity. Community provides support for the individual writer; rigor encourages that individual's finest work; and diversity—in aesthetic, ethnicity, gender, age, occupational, geographic, and economic background—ensures that American writing reflects the entire nation.

Holden Scholarship Recipient Profile

Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan first came to Warren Wilson as a Holden Scholar and since his Swannanoa days has become an esteemed, prize-winning author of three volumes of poetry, not to mention a WW faculty member. Among other recognitions, Jordan has received the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship Foundation.