Department of Creative Writing
News & Accolades - June 2011:
MFA alum Pat Bjorklund’s title chapter from her memoir-in-progress “U.S. and Them” is
featured in the current issue of the Missouri Review, and another chapter “Space Race” is
due out in Palooka this summer.
Congratulations, Pat!
Robert Siegel’s essay "Sean," which was in Harvard Review 38, won a Pushcart Prize and
will be in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology.
Congratulations, Robert!
MFA student Anna Sutton’s poem “forgive me, i killed” was accepted by Diagram.
Congratulations, Anna!
MFA alum Douglass Bourne recently accepted a full-time teaching position in the English
Department at University of Alaska Anchorage. His screenplay, The Old Way (formerly
known as Stagger Lee) won a Sir Edmund Hillary Award at the 2011 Mountain Film
Festival in Mammoth Lakes, CA. He has a personal essay forthcoming in Quay: A Journal
of the Arts and a poem forthcoming in Cirque Journal.
Congratulations, Dug!
Recent BFA graduate Shane Combs will have his short story “What I’m Doing by the Road”
published by MonkeyBicycle.
Congratulations, Shane!
Recent MFA graduate Josh MacIvor-Andersen will begin this fall as assistant professor of
English at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI.
Congratulations, Josh!
MFA student Johannes Lichtman won the editor’s pick scholarship from Oxford American
to attend the 2011 Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers at the Winthrop
Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain in Arkansas.
Congratulations, Johannes!
Nina de Gramont sold her novel This, and My Heart Beside to Algonquin!
Congratulations, Nina!
MFA alum Lukis Kaufmann’s work appears in the 2011 The Briar Cliff Review.
Congratulations, Lukis!
Recent MFA graduate Rochelle Hurt won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry!
Congratulations, Rochelle!
Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision—the debut title of Lookout Books, won the
2011 PEN/Malamud Award, in recognition of a body of work that demonstrates
excellence in the art of short fiction. Read the article here:
http://www.penfaulkner.org/news/news/Edith_Pearlman_to_Receive_the_2011_PENMal
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Congratulations Edith & Lookout!
Recent MFA graduate Ariana Nash was accepted for a one- to two-month MacDowell
Colony Residency this fall/winter in order to work on her manuscript “The Book of
Nights”.
Congratulations, Ariana!
Lavonne Adam’s poem “A Certain Perspective” appears in the Summer 2011 issue of The
Cincinnati Review.
Congratulations, Lavonne!
MFA student Regina Diperna’s poem “Where My Body Has Been” is forthcoming in Boston
Review.
Congratulations, Regina!
David Gessner’s new book My Green Manifesto, due out on July 4th, received a starred
review in Publishers Weekly. Read it here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-157131-324-9.
Congratulations, David!