In January, English Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil was the 2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington's M.F.A. program. WN-W’s was recently named one of the top 25 M.F.A. programs in the country by Poets and Writers Magazine.
While in residence Nezhukumatathil gave a public reading of her new writing and taught a month-long master class in poetry in the M.F.A. program. Previous writers that held this position include Terry Tempest Williams, Phillip Levine and Carolyn Forche.