“Bunny” follows Mackey as the close quarters of her MFA program push her to interact with “the Bunnies,” a group of four, hyper-feminine, extremely annoying MFA students who all refer to each other as Bunny.
“Of course, being at Brown inspired Warren,” Awad told The Herald.Īwad means this as a compliment, mostly.
A prestigious art school borders Warren’s campus, and the surrounding, unnamed city features streets with names like “Friendship.” Sound familiar? It should. “Bunny” focuses on Samantha Heather Mackey, a troubled MFA student at the fictional Warren University, an elite New England institution. Awad describes the book as broadly literary fiction and specifically fairytale horror. Her experience at the University colors the backdrop for Awad’s 2019 novel “Bunny” which was listed as a best book of 2019 by Time, The New York Public Library and Vogue, among others. “I just applied to Brown and to one other school, and I got into Brown, so I went to Brown,” she said. She tried to write between shifts, but found she did not have enough time to dedicate to her craft. At that point, she had already completed a master’s degree in English literature with a focus on fairytales at the University of Edinburgh. Mona Awad MFA ’14 was working at a bookstore when she decided to apply to Brown’s selective Literary Arts MFA program.
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