Dantiel Moniz, Rodrigo Restrepo, Jennie Seidewand, Dylan Weir
Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
press release: Please join the Program in Creative Writing this coming Monday, 3/19, at 7pm in the downtown Madison Public Library’s Community Room, for a reading celebrating four of our graduating MFA candidates in fiction and poetry: Dantiel Moniz, Rodrigo Restrepo, Jennie Seidewand, and Dylan Weir. Read their bios, below, and help spread the word on Facebook!
DANTIEL W. MONIZ is a homegrown Floridian and MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Apogee Journal, Ploughshares, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
RODRIGO RESTREPO lives and works in Wisconsin, where he is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
JENNIE SEIDEWAND grew up in a pet store outside Rochester, NY, where she cared for aquatic creatures and small animals with her family. She studies fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DYLAN WEIR is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has taught Creative Writing & Composition. His work can be found in Blue Earth Review, North American Review (as a finalist for the 2018 James Hearst Prize), Rhino, Sycamore Review, Tinderbox, Word Riot, and Yemassee. An instructor for the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, Dylan is finishing work on the manuscript for his first book of poems.