When Ankita Nagpal boarded a flight from India to the United States two years ago, she brought with her a passion for writing and a sense that she needed time and community to grow into the writer she hoped to become.
She had never been to the United States. She had never visited Stony Brook University, yet she had decided Stony Brook was the place where she would commit to the work of writing and grow as a writer.
Nagpal is now a third-year student in Stony Brook University’s MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and spends much of her week on the university’s Southampton and Manhattan campuses for her classes in creative writing, and the Stony Brook campus for her assignments as a teaching assistant for the BFA program. She does not own a car and relies on trains and buses, but sees the commute as part of the experience and happily accepts it as a necessary means to the education she came here to pursue.
Read the full story by Beth Squire on SBU News.
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