utv team

Magda Bogin founder & director

Laura Garibay logistics coordinator

2020 faculty

David Barstow journalism
Dev Benegal screenwriting
Cyrus Cassells poetry
Alberto Chimal fiction
David Huerta poetry
Victor LaValle writer-in-residence
Monica Lavín manuscript seminar
Emily Raboteau literary non-fiction
Elizabeth Rosner manuscript seminar
Joan Silber fiction
Alejandra Xanic journalism

2020 reading fellows

UTV Reading Fellows are exciting young writers with a first book either published or in the pipeline. Most are alumni of Under the Volcano. Iin residence throughout the Core Program, they assist master class writers as a second pair of eyes, with a special focus on suggestions for revision.  During the Extension Residency they work on their own writing and are available by appointment for one-on-one consultations by genre.

Francisco Cantú literary non-fiction
Gabriela Damián fiction, screenwriting
Tim MacGabhann fiction, journalism, poetry
Nelly Rosario fiction

Ayşegül Savaş fiction

Francisco Cantú literary non-fiction
Gabriela Damián fiction, screenwriting
Tim MacGabhann fiction, journalism, poetry
Nelly Rosario fiction

Ayşegül Savaş fiction

"When I was feeling overwhelmed at the sheer talent and accomplishments of the faculty, a fellow writing student said to me, “The only difference between them and us is time.”

MARTHA MORRISON, Toronto, Canada

"UTV is more than a learning experience set against a powerful landscape... it offers a mental space for creativity."

DANIEL ESCOTO, Mexico City

past faculty

Russell Banks Ruth Behar Breyten Breytenbach Sandra Cisneros Jennifer Clement Mark Doty Alvaro Enrigue Carolyn Forché Betty Fussell Francisco Goldman Reyna Grande Jessica Hagedorn Maureen Howard

Joyce Johnson Allen Kurzweil Jonathan Levi Valeria Luiselli Sabina Murray Bob Nichols Grace Paley Elena Poniatowska Francisco Segovia Owen Sheers Ginger Thompson Chuck Wachtel Alison Wearing

advisory board 

Lourdes Arizpe / Sandra Cisneros / Ben Clark / Janet Dawson / Laura Garibay/ David Huerta / Jonathan Levi/ Paul Muldoon / Ann Folwell Stanford / Gobi Stromberg / Ginger Thompson / Luisa Valenzuela

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