Catherine Sawyers & Sage Short MFA Thesis Reading
February 13, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Catherine Sawyers and Sage Short on Friday, February 13th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2026 Thesis Reading Series, the event is free and open to the public.
CATHERINE SAWYERS (she/her) is a MFA student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, concentrating in Fiction. She examines dysfunctional families, small town sceneries, and gossip within Southern, Black communities in her writing and is currently exploring how these themes can present themselves in speculative settings. Catherine’s fiction has appeared in Carolina Muse.
SAGE SHORT is a poet from South Carolina. She is currently an MFA Candidate at UNC Greensboro where she serves as a Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review.
