PYGMALION: Mary Helen Specht

A New York Times  Editors' Choice and winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Fiction Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize, Mary Helen Specht is the author of the 2026 novel Mudlark and the novel Migratory Animals. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, and numerous other publications. A Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria and Dobie-Paisano Writing Fellow, Specht currently teaches creative writing at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.

In partnership with Creative Writing Program, Department of English, and the Robert J. And Katherine Carr Visiting Author Series.