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Betsy Walters is originally from Apopka, Florida, which is the indoor foliage capital of the world. A third-year Research Arts student at Columbia, her work can most recently be seen in Zing magazine. She is currently working on a novel called When We Were Mud, which is about eating dirt, human gardens, and finding a way home.

David W. Harrington is a fiction writer from Hartford, CT. This past election season, he created the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. He is currently working on the Great American Crappy Small City Novel, entitled House of Hope. Briefly, House of Hope is a municipal-employee history-obsessed hip-hopping real-estate-bubbling murder mystery set in New England’s Rising Star.

Emily Austin is currently working on a novel about four lovers who go into the woods, and find they cannot get out. She is also writing a prose poetry collection, a book of short stories about fourteen post-apocalyptic city saints, and an essay about the Carmenere grape.

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*What is Faculty Selects? * The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts the reading series Faculty Selects started by professor Binnie Kirschenbaum. Three writers selected by the faculty will read each time. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. This is an opportunity to showcase some of our best writers to you.

*Faculty Selects is curated by Columbia Writing Division graduates Elyssa East and Bryan VanDyke*