GCSU Creative Writing MFA Graduation Reading

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 6:30 p.m.

Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Russell Library

Georgia College & State University’s MFA in Creative Writing is proud to present its Spring 2026 Graduation Reading. Join us on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room at Russell Library to celebrate five graduating writers as they read from their culminating thesis work in poetry and fiction.

• Kai Elliot Beck, a poet from Northwest Arkansas, crafts portraits of masculinity through dream-like memory and sound. His thesis explores the intersection of music and self-expression.
• Christina Faber, a poet from Long Island, New York, explores home, identity, and femininity. Winner of the 2025 Frankye Davis Mayes Prize, she also serves as an editorial assistant for Peach, Georgia College’s forthcoming literary magazine.
• Emma Garcia, a poet from Southern California, moved across the country to pursue her MFA and teaches English Composition. Her work has been featured in Prism Review, Sandpiper Review, and The Pierian.
• Ed Moorman is a fiction writer whose work has earned honors from the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest and SmokeLong Quarterly. Their writing appears in takahē magazine, Winning Writers, and other venues.
• Michael Sevcik, a poet living in Milledgeville, explores art, politics and identity through the “poetics of the quotidian” in his thesis, Midlife.

The reading is free and open to the public.