Spring 2021 Stellar Alumni Reading with Darcy Courteau
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 29/05/2021

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a virtual reading by three of its star graduates: fiction writer Marian Crotty (MFA 2005), poet Fernando Pérez (MFA 2010) and nonfiction writer Darcy Courteau (MFA 2007). The event took place on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2021. 

Darcy Courteau is a writer and photo essayist documenting the rural and urban fantastic. She studies the outsider communities in which she lives through long-form projects. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Oxford American, The Washington Post Magazine, The American Scholar and other publications. She has been a fellow at artist colonies including the MacDowell Colony and Ucross, and has received several artist grants from the DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities. She is a recipient of the Heising-Simons Foundation American Mosaic Journalism Prize, awarded to two freelance journalists in the United States each year for deep reporting on underrepresented groups. She lives in Washington, DC and the Ozarks with her Tulsa-born terrier, Travis.