MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING
THE RIFKIND CENTER for the Humanities and Arts

at

THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

Presents

The MFA Reading Series

ANDREW KRIVÁK in conversation
with Professor Salar Abdoh

Tuesday, March 18
6:30PM-7:30PM
Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316

Novelist, poet and memoirist Andrew Krivák will read from his recent work and be in conversation with Professor Salar Abdoh. Krivák will discuss openings in his novels, and how the way a writer begins can – and should – shape the entire story.

Andrew Krivák is the author of four novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and two works of nonfiction. His 2011 debut novel, The Sojourn, was a National Book Award Finalist and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He followed The Sojourn with The Signal Frame in 2017, The Bear in 2020, and Like the Appearance of Horses in 2023. Andrew holds a BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis, an MFA from Columbia, and a PhD in literary modernism from Rutgers University. He is currently Visiting Lecturer on English at Harvard, and an inmate discussion facilitator with the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts and The David Dortort Fund for Creative Writing