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MFA Candidates
D. Allen was co-winner of the CWP's Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize for "Great Plains" (judged by writer and alumnus Garrison Keillor).Kendra Atleework won the CWP Gesell Award for Fiction for her story "Gloria" (judged by writer Caitlin Horrocks, the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review). She also won the Gesell Award for Nonfiction for her piece "Grazing Patterns" (judged by memoirist Bob Cowser). The latter essay, written with the support of a CLA Travel/Research Fellowship, is forthcoming in The Pinch Journal issue 35.1.
Malinda Gosvig has an essay titled "The Fool" that will appear in the Winter issue of The Wayfarer.
Su Hwang was co-winner of the CWP's Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize for "An Elegy" (judged by writer and alumnus Garrison Keillor).
Trevor Dane Ketner won the CWP Gesell Award for Poetry for "Cardinal Farley's Palace, 1913" (judged by poet Tomas Morin). He is one of Graywolf Press's fall interns.
Janna Knittel won Honorable Mention for the CWP Gesell Award for Poetry for "Western Fish Toxicology Station, Corvallis, Oregon." She also won Honorable Mention, with the poem "Kangaroo," for the CWP's Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize.
Elizabeth O'Brien won Honorable Mention for the CWP Gesell Award for Nonfiction for her piece "Rough Outline for Essay About Bikes." She has a mini-essay and a poem in the latest issues of New England Review and Carve.
Carl Peaslee won Honorable Mention for the CWP Gesell Award for Fiction for his story "Time Safari."
Katie Rensch's video essay "A Mind of Winter" was selected for the 2014 MN TV Showcase. Her film, in addition to an interview, will appear on public television this winter. Her poem "Apology from the Ladyslipper" is forthcoming in Luna Luna Mag. Rensch's project SnailBooks Literary Library achieved its Kickstarter goal and began building a website. The organization (set to open late January) is a non-profit lending library that gives readers access to small and independent press books not necessarily available at your local public library. For a small fee subscription, books can be checked out online and will be delivered via mail. The fledgling library got a huge boost from a thousand-plus poetry book donation from Creative Writing Professor Ray Gonzalez.
Hunter Sharpless published his first book, Song of the Fool: On the Road with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, in October. Sharpless has an essay, "The Resurrection of the Author," in Atticus Review.
Jordan Thomas won Honorable Mention for the CWP Gesell Award for Nonfiction for the piece "Take This as My Apology."
Nicky Tiso's poetry manuscript, Cata/strophe, was named a 2014 finalist for the 1913 Prize for First Books, judged by poet Claudia Rankine.
MFA Alumnae/i
Elizabeth Abbott (MFA 2012) won a $7,000 Minnesota State Arts Board's Artist Initiative Grant to complete a memoir about her experience as a female Army Reservist serving in Iraq and training Iraqi soldiers.Emily Bright (MFA 2008) published poems in Eye to the Telescope (issue 13), Silver Blade Magazine (issue 23), and Weber-The Contemporary West.
Matt Burgess (MFA 2009) will publish his second novel, Uncle Janice, with Doubleday in January 2015.
Jennine Capó Crucet (MFA 2006) will publish the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers in August 2015 with St. Martin's Press.
Benjamin Doty (MFA 2010) has an essay, "The Cause," online at the Flagler Review.
Eric Dregni (MFA 2007) published By the Shores of Minnetonka with the University of Minnesota Press.
Jonathan Escoffery (MFA 2014) has three poems featured in Stay Thirsty Publishing's anthology, The Best Emerging Poets of 2013.
A.T. Grant (MFA 2012) will publish Wake, a multi-genre "novel," with Civil Coping Mechanisms in early 2015. "The Body," originally published in Collected Alex (Caketrain Press), has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014.
Katherine L. Holmes (MA 1985) published Josiah's Apple Orchard with Couchgrass Books for middle grade readers.
Merie Kirby (MFA 1996) has published her first collection of poems, The Dog Runs On, with Finishing Line Press.
Brian Laidlaw (MFA 2011) published a vinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook titled Amoratorium with Paper Darts Press.
Sherry Quan Lee (MFA 1996) published Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir with Modern History Press. She is a community instructor at Metropolitan State University, and has taught classes and mentored writers at Intermedia Arts and the Loft Literary Center and co-taught A Gathering of Storytellers for the University of Minnesota Women of Color Organization (UWOC) at Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC), a partnership between the University of Minnesota and North Minneapolis.
Carrie Lorig (MFA 2014) co-authored, with Sara Woods, the poetry chapbook Stonepoems with Solar Luxuriance.
Brian Malloy (MFA 2006) won a $10,000 Minnesota State Arts Board's Artist Initiative Grant to research and draft a collection of short fiction inspired by major events in Minnesota history, including the United States-Dakota War, the grasshopper plagues of 1873-77, and the Washburn A Mill explosion.
Edward McPherson (MFA 2011) won the 2014 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction for his story, "Kansas, America, 1899," judged by Andrea Barrett, which was published in the journal. He also has a story in The Gettysburg Review.
Zoë Miller (MFA 2014) published a short story, "Wish Sandwiches," with Fields Magazine.
Rachel Moritz (MFA 2006) published the chapbook Many Forms in Water with above/ground press.
Anna Cypra Oliver (MFA 1997) published the essay "Stan's Madeleine" and the painting "Consider the Lobster" (2014) together online in The Inquisitive Eater, a web journal associated with the New School.
Scott F. Parker (MFA 2014) edited Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, published by McFarland.
Ethan Rutherford (MFA 2009) started this fall as assistant professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of the Minnesota Book Award-winning collection The Peripatetic Coffin.
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