Welcome to the website of The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College.
Co-directed by Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires, the Kratz Center is one of Maryland’s premier undergraduate academic centers devoted to the study and presentation of creative writing.
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We are honored to announce a visit from author Julia Ridley Smith! We will be partnering with the Visual and Material Culture department to host professor Smith on the evening of the 26th, where she will discuss her book The Sum of Trifles.
Allegra Goodman’s novels include Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.
The 2023 Spring Series features Maggie Millner and Claire Jiménez.
