Murray State's MFA Program welcomes visiting writer: Linda Beards

By Kate Lochte

Murray, KY – Murray's MFA in Creative Writing begins its 5 night Winter Residency Reading Series Saturday, Jan. 4 with a presentation by MacArthur "Genius" and poet Linda Bierds whose work has earned her several prestigious national awards and publications. Her poems appear in prestigious national print venues like the New Yorker. Linda Bierds prefaces a reading of her poem "Sea of Tranquility."