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MFA Candidates
The Mill City Reading Series is a new monthly showcase of works-in-progress by our MFA in Creative Writing students. The next event will take place 6 pm March 29 at Magers & Quinn Bookstore in Uptown Minneapolis. For more information, please check out their fine website.Kendra Atleework was featured online at Hayden's Ferry Review discussing her essay "Charade," which appeared in the Review. Her essay "Of Fish and Farmers" was published by The Morning News.
Trevor Dane Ketner and Jordan Thomas were chosen as two of Graywolf Press's spring interns, both in editorial.
Janna Knittel published two poems--"Bones" and "My Father at 80"--in the winter issue of NEAT Magazine.
Elizabeth O'Brien's piece, "Drifting Feebly" was featured recently in B O D Y, and another piece, "Apprenticing," is in the new issue of Bayou Magazine.
Katie Rensch's craft essay, entitled "The Poet's 'I': Distance Through First-Person," was published this month in Cleaver Magazine. An essay titled "Home" is published in Papercuts this month.
Emily Strasser's essay "The Chair" was published in Guernica. The essay came out of her summer spent interviewing Tibetan refugees in northern India on the Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship. In addition, her essay "the weight of a butterfly" was published by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
MFA Alumnae/i
Aaron Apps (MFA 2013) published his Sawtooth Award-winning book Dear Herculine with Ahsahta Press. His essay "Barbecue Catharsis" was mentioned as a notable essay in the 2014 edition of Best American Essays. His hybrid-genre memoir Intersex is set to be published in May by Tarpaulin Sky Press.Debby Bacharach (MA 1994) published her first book of poetry, After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Bacharach's poems have been published in journals nationally and internationally, including The Antigonish Review, Arts & Letters, Calyx, Cimarron Review, New Letters, and Poet Lore. She graduated from Swarthmore College and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. She was a college writing instructor for over 20 years and now runs her own business offering writing workshops, editing services, and tutoring. She lives in Seattle with her family.
Matt Burgess (MFA 2000) received multiple positive reviews for his second novel with Doubleday, Uncle Janice, notably in The Star Tribune and New York Daily News. Ethan Rutherford (MFA 2009) interviewed him about the book for Tin House.
Mary Feng Chen (MFA 2013) published her second collection of poetry, The 8th House, with Black Ocean.
Haddayr Copley-Woods (MFA 1999) was recently hired as a Web Content Writer by Gage, a Minneapolis-based engagement marketing agency. An essay by Copley-Woods will also be included in the forthcoming book, Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now, to be published by Putnam this spring.
Sarah Fox (MFA 2012) published a new chapbook, Old Wives' Tales, with Five Hundred Places Press (Berlin, Germany).
Kathleen Glasgow (MFA 2002) sold her debut novel, The Tender Kit, to Delacorte in a two-book deal. The story of a girl on the verge of losing herself to a debilitating mental illness and her journey back from the edge, the book is set to be published in fall 2016.
Sherry Quan Lee (MFA 1996) is a finalist for a 2015 Minnesota Book Award in Memoir & Creative Nonfiction for her book Love Imagined.
Liana Liu (MFA 2011) published her debut young adult novel, The Memory Key, with HarperTeen.
Rachel Moritz (MFA 2006) published a new chapbook, How Absence, with Miel Press.
Francine Tolf (2006) has published a new collection of memoir essays entitled Joliet in My Blood with Port Yonder Press.
In Memorium:
Close program friend and poet Lucille Broderson (BA 1937), who took many graduate level classes with professors including Michael Dennis Browne, Patricia Hampl, and Madelon Sprengnether, sadly passed away on February 7. Read her Star Tribune obituary. A video of Broderson reading, with introduction by Browne, is here.We'd love to hear from you. Please share your news.
