MFA Residents

Delia Cruz Kelly is a memoirist from Santa Clarita, California. She is a 2nd year Nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia University School of the Arts where she is working on a family memoir.

Kia Guindon is a Brooklyn-bass writer pursuing her MFA at the New School, where she specializes in fiction. She is currently working on a short story collection.

Crawford Hunt is a writer and second-year MFA fiction student at New York University. She was a 2020 A Public Space Writing Fellow and is currently at work on her first novel.

Meg O’Malley is an MFA candidate in fiction and an adjunct English lecturer at Queens College, CUNY. She’s a new mother whose work explores queer motherhood, witches and loneliness. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and son and is at work on her first novel.

Erik Schoning is a first year MFA student at Brooklyn College. In addition to relearning how to write on a deadline for workshop, he is in the research/word vomit phase of his second novel, a road trip story about a politically divided Venezuelan-American family en route to vote abroad in a crucial 2012 election. Erik is excited to have the chance to work and write in a space where his cat can’t spill his seltzer!

Daniel Shank Cruz (he/they) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in New York City and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He studies Creative Nonfiction in Hunter College’s MFA program. Cruz is the author of Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019). Their writing has also appeared in venues such as Modern Haiku, the New York Times, Your Impossible Voice, and numerous essay collections.