<p>This thesis is a book length collection of poetry. Divided into five sections, the book </p> <p>follows a fractured self as it relates to romantic partnership, friendship, sexual trauma, political </p> <p>identity, and other factors. The first section introduces the different paradigms the speaker spends </p> <p>the rest of the book trying to understand her role within, exploring themes such as the ecstasies </p> <p>and let-downs of friendship, sexuality arrested by trauma and body-image, and anxieties about </p> <p>climate disaster and economic collapse. The second section grounds the speaker’s experience of </p> <p>dissociation in her college years. The third section continues to develop themes from the first two </p> <p>sections with an emphasis on the speaker’s relationship to language and its limitations. The fourth </p> <p>section, the only standalone sequence of poems in the collection, recounts a set of circumstances </p> <p>in which the speaker must reconcile her different factions of self during a crisis. The fifth and final </p> <p>section presents a speaker on the doorstep of acceptance of self, attempting to find stasis.</p>

<p>  </p> <p>This thesis is a book length collection of short stories. It features eight short stories, most of which generally fall into speculative and related genres, including quasi-historical fiction, ghost story, fiction of the weird, and others. The stories feature original characters as well as versions and send ups of figures from history, culture, and religion, such as Yiddish film actress Molly Picon, urban legend The Jersey Devil, the professional athletes of the National Hockey League, and religious characters Vashti and Esther from the Book of Esther. It deals with themes such as Judaism, diaspora, queerness, ecological and political collapse, isolation, coming of age, and the ability to understand oneself within the gaze of another.</p>

<p>A thesis involved with the coming of age of a young queer person.</p>

<p>A collection of short stories featuring surreal events and worlds showcasing interpersonal struggles in the backdrop of environmental issues.</p>

<p>This thesis consists of a chapbook length collection of poetry. </p>

<p>This was a creative endeavor undertaken to understand what it is to “create” literature. Stories vary in both theme and style. Each one attempts to engage the reader’s understanding of their own world.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">This is a book-length thesis project of poems grappling with themes of love, loss, and longing. The poems are based mostly in New Delhi or Indiana, but occasionally travel to other parts of either of the two countries. The poems are interested in the ways in which we treat the land we inhabit, question belonging and birthright, and are susceptible to the projections of violence these questions and claims demand. The poems feature beloveds, romantic or otherwise, characters from the speaker’s family, and casual acquaintances. This is a book-length project of poems of a life lived, a life loved, and a life still learning from the hubris of human love.</p>

<p>This creative thesis includes the first six chapters of <em>Aud of the Dead</em>, a novel that combines the genres of speculative science fiction, supernatural fiction, and dystopian fiction. The purpose of the novel is to provide an entertaining example of the soft science fiction genre where the plot exists for the characters, not the other way around.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The novel’s main protagonist is Aud, who was born on Earth in the year 2000. In the year 2024, Earth was invaded and subjugated by aliens called the Impixi. Years later, amid a successful Human rebellion, the actions of another alien species, the Architechs, left Earth in an apocalyptic shroud of toxic dust, vapor, and ash that would ultimately wipe out all life on the planet. But not every Human that died stayed dead. Millions of them became what would later be classified as a new sentient species, named “Anima” by the multigalactic scientific community. The former Humans, however, don’t believe they are a new species; they believe they are the ghosts, or “spectres,” of their living selves, and on their dead homeworld now called Quietus, they are essentially present-day Humans stripped down to the relentless pathos of the living dead. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The novel begins one hundred years after Earth’s apocalypse when the All Worlds War has come to an end. Aud is returning home from playing her part in the war when she suddenly finds herself responsible for an “Unquiet” called Ometa, a new Anima that was not born Human and did not die one century ago on Quietus. Ometa was an Architech in life, and now Aud must keep that epic secret while teaching Ometa how to navigate existence as an Anima. At the same time, Ometa teaches Aud how to overcome the limitations of living as the dead. </p>

<p>Description is in the abstract</p>

<p dir="ltr">Creative writing thesis as a collection of poetry for the fulfillment of MFA in Poetry. </p>