We’d like to congratulate the following alumni on their literary achievements!
Rachel King (MFA, Fiction, 2012)
"A Normal
Rabbit." Concho River Review (Spring
2016).
"A Normal Rabbit" anthologized in Among Animals 2 (Fall 2016)
by Ashland Creek Press, available through Amazon or Powell's.
"Vanport City" Flyway (Spring 2017).
"Returning," "Blackberries," and "Near the Solstice." Offcourse. (December 2016).
Attended the Tin House Workshop and studied with Jim Shepard.
Melissa Atkinson Mercer (MFA Poetry 2013)
Full-length collection, Poetry:
Saint of the Partial Apology. Five Oaks Press. August 2017.
Micro-chapbook, Poetry:
My Own Strange Beast. Porkbelly Press. May 2017.
Chapbooks:
Star-Blind in the Family of Fortune Keepers. Hermeneutic Chaos Press. March 2017.
Storm Was Her Voice. dancing girl press. April 2016.
After the Miracle Season. Seven Kitchens Press. Fall 2017, forthcoming.
ghost exhibit. Glass Poetry Press. April 2018, forthcoming.
Sarah Munroe (MFA Poetry 2017)
“Thinking of My Father Around His Birthday” and “Poem that Begins with Hafez.” Arts & Letters. Forthcoming.
Andrea Ruggirello (MFA Fiction 2017)
“A Human Bone is Strong as Granite.” Amazon Day One. June 2017, pp. 3-9
Whit Arnold (MFA Nonfiction 2017)
“He’s All Goat.” The Rumpus. August 1, 2017. Web
His essay "Tadpole" made the shortlist for Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction Prize, judged by Roxane Gay. The winner will be announced in August.
http://cosmonautsavenue.com/contests/
Megan Fahey (MFA Fiction 2017)
“Witness.” Southern Humanities. Print.
Kelly Sundberg (MFA Nonfiction 2012)
Her essays have appeared in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, The Collagist, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, and elsewhere. Her essay "It Will Look Like a Sunset" was anthologized in Best American essays 2015, as well as listed as a finalist for Best of the Net 2014. Other essays have been listed as notables in Best American Essays 2013 and 2016. She has been the recipient of fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center, Dickinson House, the National Endowment for the Arts, and was recently named a finalist for the Barbara Deming Money for Women fund.
Her memoir Goodbye, Sweet Girl will be released from HarperCollins Publishers on July 5, 2018, and it will also be released at the same time by PiperVerlag in Germany.
She is currently in her dissertation year of her PhD at Ohio University.
Kathleen Fallon (MFA Nonfiction 2003)
Her second book of literary nonfiction, Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird, was published by University Press of New England this spring. Her first book for children, Look, See the Bird!, co-authored by Bill Wilson and illustrated by Leigh Anne Carter, was just released from Hatherleigh Press.
She was recently a Guest Creative Nonfiction Faculty member at West Virginia Wesleyan College's Low-Residency MFA Program.
For more info on her events, books, etc., visit: www.katiefallon.com
Christina Seymour (MFA Poetry 2014)
Chapbook:
Flowers Around Your Soft Throat published by Structo (2016): https://gumroad.com/structo
Acceptance to a Workshop with Terrance Hayes at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (2017)
Magazine Publications:
“New House: Brick with Lime Green Door.” The Moth. (2017)
“Land of the Amber Sky” and “Live Flower Necklace.” Arsenic Lobster. (Winter 2016)
"Stage-Struck" Briar Cliff Review. (2016)
“Story of Us.” Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program. (2015)
“Channel Inn Balcony.” North American Review. (2014)
“Fight Song” and “I Learned to Stop Wanting.” Cimarron Review. (2014)
Interview
and Essays:
Hathaway, Bethany Joy. “Christina Seymour.” Speaking of Marvels. Fall 2016.
Xin Tian, Koh. "Flowers Around Your Soft Throat: An Interview with Poet Christina Seymour." Ploughshares. (Fall 2016)
Glassworks: “Times of Day with William Stafford” (Spring 2016)
Glassworks: The Looking Glass (Spring 2016)
North American Review Blog: “Prosody and Being Equal to Life” (Aug. 2015)
Pushcart
Prize Nominations: 2015, 2016
Visit her website at: www.christinaseymour.net
Rebecca Thomas (MFA Fiction 2013)
“Flood Control,” ZYZZYVA, Winter 2016
“Franz Boas Destroys Mission Carmel,” Day One and as a Kindle Single, November 2016
“Spring Training,” The Massachusetts Review, Fall 2015
“Surviving the Postseason,” Fifth Wednesday, Spring 2015. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Connie Pan (MFA Fiction 2013
Fiction:
“Fish Heads.” PRISM international (Spring 2017).
Poetry:
“In Knowledge of Dreams” and “Finally, Communion.” The Fiddlehead (forthcoming).
“How Was Your Today?” Carve Magazine (Winter 2016). (A link to a Q&A [https://www.carvezine.com/from-the-editor/2017/1/9/qa-with-poetry-contributor-connie-pan].)
Jessica Guzman (MFA Poetry 2015)
Poetry:
“Nighttime Spectacular.” Pleiades. [Forthcoming].
"Hurricane Party, or Geworfenheit." Passages North. [Forthcoming].
"Woman Unwittingly Joins Search Party Looking for Her." Copper Nickel. [Forthcoming].
“The Question is Gratefulness” and “Reminder.” The Normal School. [Forthcoming].
"Hurricanes over Sierra Maestra." Sycamore Review 28.2 (June 2017). Print.
“Obligatory Nightingale Poem” and “Spring Tetraptych.” Zone 3 32.1 (May 2017). Print.
"Register of Futures: Florida." Phoebe Journal 46.2 (May 2017). Web.
"A Body Must Be More Than Bones So Why Keep the Urn." BOAAT (May 2017). Web.
"By Saying One Thing We Exclude Another." RHINO Poetry (April 2017). Print.
"Conservation Status." New Delta Review 7.1 (December 2016). Web.
“The Enlarged World.” Sonora Review 70 (October 2016). Print.
Awards/honors:
“Coco.” Harpur Palate. [Forthcoming]. *Winner of the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, 2017.
Poetry Scholar. Tin House’s Winter Workshop, 2017.
Postgraduate Scholarship. Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2016.
We look forward to hearing more success stories from our alumni!
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