Quick Life Bio
Tracie Chavonne, a Chicago Native, came to Las Vegas in 2020. She has been a flight attendant for 15 years and in 2023 she completed her undergraduate degree after a hiatus from academia that began in 2005, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Summa Cum Laude distinction. When she is not a busy academic, she enjoys being alone, watching her favorite sci-fi & fantasy media, crafting, hiking, yoga, and hanging out with her life partner.
UNLV Creative Writing MFA Bio
Tracie Chavonne, a Chicago Native, made her way to Las Vegas in 2020 to escape California. With her career as a flight attendant in jeopardy, she decided to complete her undergraduate degree after a fifteen-year hiatus from academia. Having received her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Summa Cum Laude distinction in the Spring of 2023 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she has set her sights on continuing her education, pursing college professorship, deepening her relationship with writing, and creating a successful and lucrative career as an author by enrolling in the MFA Creative Writing Program in UNLV.
Shortened Bio
Tracie Chavonne, a Chicago Native, made her way to Las Vegas in 2020 to escape California. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Summa Cum Laude distinction in the Spring of 2023, she set her sights on continuing her education by enrolling in the MFA Creative Writing Program in UNLV.
Long Bio
Tracie Chavonne Williams is currently an M.F.A. graduate student in the college of liberal arts studying creative writing non-fiction. In the spring of 2023, she graduated summa cum laude with an English Degree focused on creative writing as a non-traditional transfer student.
Writing has been the backdrop of all of her personal and professional endeavors. It has been the tool that has helped her to relate to her peers, to achieve the highest marks a student can achieve, and the instrument she has used to cope with the challenges she has faced while confronting the unforeseen boundaries of English literature, boundaries that have ultimately inspired her to take my relationship with writing toward more challenging and wealth generative frontiers.
She enrolled in graduate school to be able to take her relationship with writing to a level of professionalism that can only be achieved through academia, securing writing as a tradition in my life despite non-traditional paths. More than this, being able to share her tradition with others through craft, publication, and instruction