News: Seton Hill Switches to MFA

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The Writer_September 2009The Writer September 2009

An ad for Seton Hill University's new MFA Program is in the September 2009 issue of The Writer, and I'm honored that my face is a part of it! ;)

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If you haven't heard about Seton Hill's switch from MA to MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, you can find out the details here:
http://www.setonhill.edu/academics/fiction/index.cfm

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