Coleen Muir earned her MFA at University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Fourth Genre, Silk Road Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Rumpus, and Cream City Review, among others. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she will begin teaching creative writing at UNC Charlotte this fall.
By charging writers such high fees, these literary institutions seal themselves off from what they claim to seek: diversity of talent, diversity of experience, diversity of voice.