Mary Henn University of Missouri-Kansas City

Published: June 23, 2020, 10 a.m.

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Mary Henn of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Missouri State University joins us to talk about gender, trauma, writing as healing, and whether writing can and should be political. Henn reads an excerpt of her award-winning creative nonfiction piece "Assemblies," which will be published in the upcoming issue of Hayden\'s Ferry Review.

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Mary Henn is an emerging poet and nonfiction writer. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Missouri State University and was recently awarded an Intro Journals Award from the AWP. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she teaches English.

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MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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