Sol Wooten began her academic journey as an undergraduate psychology student at Cornell College in Iowa, where she was drawn to the very intensive three-week class structure. She will continue her journey at Cornell University in New York as an MFA student in literary genre, with hopes of one day leading workshops that focus on inclusivity and in continuing to hone her skills in editorial work. Sol started at ACC in the spring of 2019 as a creative writing student, where she took classes in poetry and prose, flash fiction, poetry, and fiction and held an internship with American Short Fiction before becoming a fellow. Her desire to fill a creative void started as an undergraduate at Cornell College, when she enrolled in an eighteenth-century Russian literature class, piquing her interest in foreign languages, poetic language, superstition, and how they are all psychologically and creatively connected.
After applying to a total of thirteen graduate programs, Sol’s decision to attend Cornell University was strongly influenced by conversations with current students and future peers, whose mature passion for collaboration in their work truly melded with her own interest in the school’s program, conversation, inclusivity, and broadening horizons to become a modern-day Renaissance scholar. Sol will start her first year working on Epoch and her second year teaching. Although officially declared a literary genre student, Sol acknowledges that the MFA is a time to experiment, and she looks forward to her freedom to create structure in a symbolic personal narrative.
