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Peter Zaragoza Mayshle received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His writing has been supported by a residency at Yaddo. His short stories have appeared in publications across the United States, Philippines, Canada, and the U.K., including 'Flash Fiction International' published by W. Norton. He is a two-time finalist for the David T.K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Born and raised in Manila, he now lives in Pittsburgh. In 2022, he was a finalist for Farrar, Straus & Giroux's inaugural Writer's Fellowship with a novel-in-progress set during the bloody six months of Duterte's presidency. His research interests include the rhetorics of space, public memory, ethnography, and fiction writing.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.