Complex sentence: She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left NYC that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop; she was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department.
Split into simpler sentences: She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left NYC that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department.