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MFA Candidate News
Congratulations to the following MFA students, who are now MFA graduates!
Carl Peaslee, fiction
Jason Zencka, fiction
Lalinne Bell, nonfiction
Malinda Gosvig, nonfiction
Hunter Sharpless, nonfiction
Julia Marley, poetry
Elizabeth O'Brien, poetry
Julia Marley, poetry
Elizabeth O'Brien, poetry
Katie Rensch, poetry
Nicky Tiso, poetry
Mike Alberti was awarded the 2015 Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship.
D. Allen won a CLA Summer Travel and Research Fellowship.
Jon Atkinson won a CLA Summer Travel and Research
Fellowship.
Kendra Atleework’s essay "Charade" has been
selected for the Best American Essays 2015 anthology, edited by Robert Atwan
and Ariel Levy, forthcoming in the fall. She also has a short essay about a
recent wildfire in her home community in California up at Guernica. She won a
CLA Summer Travel and Research Fellowship.
Dana D'Amico won a CLA Summer Travel and Research Fellowship.
Dana D'Amico won a CLA Summer Travel and Research Fellowship.
Megan Gette, a poetry MFA candidate, won a Marcella
DeBourg Fellowship through the Creative Writing Program to "give creative
expression to women's lives."
Roy Guzman won summer support through CLA's Graduate
Research Partnership Program (GRPP), which fuels research partnerships between
faculty and students.
Su Hwang received the Michael Dennis Browne Poetry
Fellowship for summer 2015.
Veronica Kavass won a CLA Summer Travel and Research
Fellowship.
Trevor Kentner’s poem, "Amputation," was published
in Thrush Poetry Journal's March issue, and his new poem, "Wave from the
Point of View of a Bird," was accepted for Bayou Magazine's 63rd issue due
out this summer. He's also been hired as a marketing assistant at Minneapolis’ Graywolf
Press, after interning there this past fall and spring.
Janna Knittel will have two poems—"Bones" and
"My Father at 80"—in the winter issue of NEAT Magazine. She also won
a CLA Summer Travel and Research Fellowship.
Anna Rasmussen won a CLA Summer Travel and Research
Fellowship.
Brooks Teevan was awarded a Gesell Anderson Center summer
residency in Red Wing, MN.
Jordan Thomas published a piece entitled "The Murder of
Crows" at The Toast. He also won summer support through CLA's Graduate Research
Partnership Program (GRPP), which fuels research partnerships between faculty
and students. And he received a DOVE Summer Fellowship.
Alexandra Watson, a fiction MFA candidate, won a Marcella
DeBourg Fellowship to "give creative expression to women's lives." She
also received a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship to travel
to Norway this summer.
MFA alumnae/i News
Aaron Apps (MFA 2013) published Intersex: A Memoir with
Tarpaulin Sky Press.
Jonah Charney-Sirott (MFA 2011) publishes his debut novel,
This Is the Night, this October.
Katherine L. Holmes (MA in Writing 1985) published Two
One-Act Plays: The Lawn Auction & Would You Like to Go Out Shoveling
Tonight? with CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Kate Hopper (MFA 2005) co-authored the nonfiction book,
Silent Running: Our Family’s Journey to the Finish Line with Autism, Robyn
Schneider’s story about her two marathon-running sons.
Molly Sutton Kiefer (MFA 2014) celebrates the one year anniversary of Tinderbox Poetry Journal with a contest (June 21-August 21, Ocean Vuong judging). She's also starting a press, Tinderbox Editions, with two full-length collections lined up for 2016.
Molly Sutton Kiefer (MFA 2014) celebrates the one year anniversary of Tinderbox Poetry Journal with a contest (June 21-August 21, Ocean Vuong judging). She's also starting a press, Tinderbox Editions, with two full-length collections lined up for 2016.
Brian Laidlaw (MFA 2011) published his first full-length
book of poems, The Stuntman, with Milkweed Editions in April.
Carrie Lorig (MFA 2014) published the poetry chapbook READING AS A WILDFLOWER ACTIVIST (H_NGM_N CHAPBOOKS).
Carrie Lorig (MFA 2014) published the poetry chapbook READING AS A WILDFLOWER ACTIVIST (H_NGM_N CHAPBOOKS).
Rachel Moritz (MFA 2006) published her debut full-length
poetry collection, Borrowed Wave, with Kore Press. She has published five
chapbooks.
Josh Ostergaard (MFA 2011) was awarded one of four Loft
McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers of $25,000.
Jennifer Willoughby (MFA 2006) won the fourth annual
Lindquist & Vennum Prize, offered by Milkweed Editions. She receives $10,000;
and Milkweed will publish her poetry manuscript in November. She works as an
advertising copywriter.
