Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing faculty member Sascha Feinstein’s The Jazz Fiction Anthology, edited by Sascha and David Rife, has just been published by Indiana University Press. The anthology includes stories by 29 writers, including James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Michelle Cliff, Julio Cortazar, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, and VCFA's own Xu Xi.
"During each semester the word that echoed in my head was 'relentless', relentless learning with all parts of my brain, the creative and the analytical, the literary and the lyrical. And relentless reading, thinking, and writing. The third part was relentless positive encouragement and support to risk writing way beyond the envelope."