News about publications and awards from MFA candidates and alumnae/i.
For more news about the Creative Writing Program, check out the spring 2013 MFA Program newsletter.
MFA Candidate News
Jonathan Escoffery's short story, "The Pickle," was recently published in Middle Gray. The magazine also did an interview with Jonathan on art, literature, and success.
J. Fossenbell has five poems up in the current TAMMY issue of Whole Beast Rag and two in the Eng-to-Eng section of the current Short, Fast & Deadly. Read our interview here.
Carrie Lorig has three poems written with Russ Woods forthcoming from The Denver Quarterly. She will have poems in TYPO, NOO Journal, Stoked, and Whiskey Island. She co-authored the chapbook Roots with Russ Woods, which won Radioactive Moat's Poetry Contest.
Elizabeth O'Brien has a poem forthcoming in Diagram.
Victoria Scher is the recipient of the Judd Fellowship from the Global Programs Strategic Alliance. This fellowship supported summer travel to Chihuahua City, Mexico for her continued research on the Tarahumaras.
Nicky Tiso reviewed Siglio Press' It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, at HTMLGiant.
The Creative Writing Program congratulates the following 2013 MFA graduates:
Aaron Apps
Isaac Butler
Feng Sun Chen
Kristin Fitzsimmons
Sally Franson
Christine Friedlander
Rose Hansen
Kate Johnston
Kate Petersen
Adriane Quinlan
Kerry Voigt
MFA Alumnae/i News
Aaron Apps (MFA 2013) is a first-year PhD English candidate at Brown University. His second book, Intersex, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press. His manuscript Dear Herculine was an honorable mention for Ahsahta Press' 2013 open reading period. Apps' work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in LIT, Denver Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, Spork, Caliban, House Fire, The Doctor TJ Eckleberg Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Sleeping Fish.
John Colburn (BA 1990; MFA 1996) published the poetry collection Psychedelic Norway with Coffee House Press.
Amanda Coplin (MFA 2006) won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction for her debut novel The Orchardist. She also was named one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honorees. Read our interview here.
Kevin Fenton (MFA 2005) published his memoir (and MFA thesis) Leaving Rollingstone in September with the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Fenton won the AWP award for the novel Merit Badges. Read our interview here.
Kristin Fitzsimmons & Sally Franson (MFA 2013) started an educational YouTube series called "What Did You Look Up On Wikipedia?" Both are teaching at the Loft Literary Center.
Erin Hart (MA 1995) published her fourth mystery novel The Book of Killowen with Scribner.
Katherine Holmes (MA 1985) published the middle grade novel The Wide Awake Loons with Silver Knight Publishing and the young adult novel The Swan Bonnet with Enigma Press. Her first published book, The House in Windward Leaves, placed as finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and also as finalist in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Her short story collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, was published by Hollywood Books International.
Kate Hopper (MFA 2005) publishes the memoir Ready for Air this October with University of Minnesota Press.
Liana Liu (MFA 2011) will publish her first young adult novel, The Memory Key, with HarperCollins in winter 2015.
Éireann Lorsung (MFA 2006) published her second collection of poetry, Her Book, this past summer with Milkweed Editions. A chapbook is forthcoming from dancing girl press. Nick Flynn chose her poem "Prypyat night song" for the Gigantic Sequins prize.
Rachel Moritz (MFA 2006) published a chapbook of poems, Elementary Rituals, last spring with Albion Books. Her poems are forthcoming or recently appeared in Cannibal, Newfound, and 14 Hills. She also received a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. Her first full-length poetry collection, Borrowed Wave, will be published by Kore Press in 2014.
Josh Ostergaard (MFA 2011) will publish a nonfiction book about baseball with Coffee House Press in spring 2014.
Kate Petersen (MFA 2013) received the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University for fiction.
Adriane Quinlan (MFA 2013) accepted a position as reporter for The Times-Picayune, covering Jefferson Parish in New Orleans.
Suzanne Rivecca (MFA 2005) published the story "Philanthropy" in Granta #120, and it was chosen by Elizabeth Strout for Best American Short Stories 2013.
Ethan Rutherford (MFA 2009) published The Peripatetic Coffin with Ecco Press. See our interview here.
Kerry Voigt (MFA 2013) was accepted into the Teach for America 2013 Corps and is teaching Fine Arts: K-12 in Mississippi.
Francine Marie Tolf (MFA 2006) won First Prize ($500) in the Outrider Press/TallGrass Poetry Contest. Her poem, "Small News Item," will be included in their 2013 anthology. Her essay, "Sheeba at Twenty," is in the current issue of Under the Sun.
Shana Youngdahl (MFA 2006) is Assistant Professor of First-Year Writing at the University of Maine-Farmington and co-directs the Longfellow Mountains Young Writers Workshop. A third chapbook, winter/window, is forthcoming from MIEL in autumn 2013.
