The Advisory Board of Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction program is bringing on 3 new members, expanding upon the low-residency program’s ever-growing excellence. “Our board members, established agents, editors, and publishing insiders, are an active part of our program,” recounted MFA Director Diane Les Becquets. “They not only serve as counsels ; they also consult one to one with scholars and teach workshops at our residencies.” . With the most recent passing of Jack Scovil, president of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency, and one of the founding board members of SNHU’s program, Anna Ghosh will be joining the board.

“Like many others here, I miss my dear colleague, Jack Scovil, who remains essential. But I am excited by the energy and keenness of Diane and her stellar board at SNHU’s MFA programme, and am pleased to join it,” related Ghosh, who started her career as an agent in 1995 and was made partner at Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency in 2008. Ghosh represents a wide variety of adult fiction and nonfiction books, especially literary nonfiction, history, science, and books on social and cultural issues. She got raised in India and was educated at Hampshire University and the New School for Social Research. . She has led workshops and panels on publishing at diverse establishments and organizations including Columbia University, Manhattan School, Goucher College, University of Wyoming, Northwestern University, Asian American Writers Workshop, South Asian Newshounds Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Writers. Also joining the board is Ken Wright, who has been in book publishing for twenty-five years, as an editor and a publisher, and more recently as a literary agent at Writers House in NY. Wright represents authors and illustrators of children’s books in all classes alongside a tiny group of adult book writers.

His list includes Printz Medalist and Honour winners, Caldecott Medalist and Respect winners, Newbery Respect winners, Sibert, Boston World – Horn Book, Morris, and YALSA Pre-eminence in Nonfiction winners, and top sellers of The New York Times. He frequently appears as a panelist or speaker at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ meetings, the conferences of the North American Society of Correspondents and Authors, and the New School, talking on all sides of the publishing industry. Wright started his career in publishing at Oxford Varsity Press and held editorial and executive positions at Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Henry Holt, Routledge, and before joining Writers House he was an editorial director and the vice chairman / associate publisher at Scholastic. Like Ghosh, Wright is happy to be joining the program’s board. “It’s Diane’s enormous eagerness that at first attracted me. And what a great opportunity to begin to know the very proficient faculty, scholars, and fellow board members,” declared Wright.

“I completely look forward to working with them all.” . Beth Ineson, director of field sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is one more addition to the program’s board of advisors. Ineson previously held positions in the sales and marketing departments at Yale College Press and Globe Pequot. Since 2005, she has been an accessory lecturer at Emerson Varsity in the Writing, Literature and Publishing dept. She holds a B.A from the University of New Hampshire and is a student of the Denver Publishing Institute.

. “In a time of almost sustained change in the publishing world, the one rock solid continuous is the importance of strong writing. Having the chance to advise MFA candidates as they start their writing careers feels like an opportunity to have a front row seat for my industry’s future,” asserted Ineson.