This Thursday, please join Platform for Pedagogy for a conversation about their anthology Should I Go to Grad School? 

Platform editor Jessica Loudis will speak with contributor Meehan Crist and writers Jen Percy and Leslie Jamison about writing and graduate school. 

Meehan Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University and a graduate of that school's MFA program. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, Scientific American, and Science. 

Jessica Loudis is an editor of Should I Go to Grad School and at Platform for Pedagogy. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, and other fine literary outlets. She has not gone to grad school.

Lesile Jamison is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, and a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, Oxford America, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among other places, and she is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale. 

Jennifer Percy is the author of Demon Camp and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Capote Fellow and the recipient of an Iowa Arts fellowship from the Nonfiction Writing Program. She has also won a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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