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news to share, we'd love to know. Email your latest
publication news or milestones to Faith Holsaert at
writerwk@comcast.net with
"WW
newsletter" in the subject line. Be sure to
include your graduating year, whether you worked in
poetry or fiction, and links to any of your work
online.
Lucy Anderton (poetry
'05) is now living in a 500 year old ruin in France. Her
poems recently came out in Tarpaulin Sky,
Forklift Ohio and Spoken Word Revolution
Redux, and are apparently forthcoming in Born
Magazine and Poem, Revised.
Fred
Arroyo's (fiction
'97) first novel, The Region of Lost Names, has
just been published by the University of Arizona Press.
Fred is an Assistant Professor in English at Drake
University
Robin
Black's (fiction '05) story "A Fence Between
Our Homes" (The Southern Review) received special
mention in the 2008 Pushcart Prizes and "Harriet
Elliot," initially written at Warren Wilson, is
forthcoming in One
Story.
Phil
Boiarski (poetry '80) and Linda Nemec Foster (poetry) read
their work and signed books as part of the inauguration
of "The Year of Zbigniew Herbert" at the Polish
Embassy in Washington D.C. in January. Both
writers have been translated recently and published in
Polish literary journals and featured in the latest
issue of Polish American Studies, the quarterly
of the Polish American Historical
Association.
Mary Bonina (fiction '85)
recently published a poetry chapbook Living
Proof, from Cervena Barva Press. In its 40th
anniversary issue, Hanging Loose magazine
printed "Sidekick," a chapter from her memoir, My
Father's Eyes. Another chapter, "The Wanderer,
1962," was published in Gulfstream magazine's
inaugural online version (Gulfstreaming).
Mary is a member and serves on the Board of
Directors of The Writers Room of
Boston.
Catherine Brown's (fiction '07)
stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Meridian,
The Summerset Review, Juked, and Dogwood, A
Journal of Poetry and Prose. One of her stories was
a finalist in Cutthroat's 2007 fiction competition. Her
story "Riceville, Summer, 1976" placed first in the
fiction contest of Dogwood, A Journal of Poetry and
Prose.
Martha Carlson-Bradley (poetry
'89) was recently awarded the Robert and Charlotte Bacon
Fellowship, one of the American Antiquarian Society
Visiting Fellowships for Historical Research by Creative
and Performing Artists and Writers for 2008. She will be
researching materials on Colonial life for a collection
of poems in progress. Martha appeared on Verse Daily on
August 15, 2007:
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/atthefalls.shtml
Sue
Chenette's (fiction '97) second chapbook, A
Transport of Grief, was published by LyricalMyrical
Press in February 2007. She learned to how to use a bone
folder and an awl when she put together a hand-stitched
chapbook, Solitude
in Cloud and Sun, for her mother's 90th
birthday in June. Her poems have recently appeared in
Descant, Grain, Agenda (www.agendapoetry.co.uk/supplements-poems.php),
Main Street Rag, Rhythm Poetry Magazine (http://rhythmpoetrymagazine.english.dal.ca/),
and Upstairs at Duroc. She has work forthcoming
in Heliotrope.
K. L. (Kenny)
Cook (fiction '91), still teaches at Prescott
College and in Spalding University's low-residency MFA
in Writing Program. For the 2007-08 academic year,he is
the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at
St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. His novel,
The Girl from
Charnelle, won the 2007 WILLA Award for
Contemporary Fiction. His story, "The
Man Who Fell from the Sky," was published in the
Winter 2008 issue of Glimmer Train Stories and
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He's now at work on a new novel and new
collection of short stories.
Randall Couch's (poetry '03) translations of Gabriela Mistral (which
began as a project while he was at Wally) is titled
Madwomen: The Locas mujeres poems of Gabriela
Mistral; coming out this April 2008 from University
of Chicago Press. You can get all the details and read
advance reviews at: www.randallcouch.com . Randall recently won a rare $10,000 PA Council
on the Arts Fellowship in poetry for 2008 for original
work unrelated to the Mistral project.
Nan Cuba (fiction '89) received a residency at Fundacion
Valparaiso in Mohacar, Spain. For ten months each year,
eight artists from across the world are invited to stay
one month. http://www.transartists.nl/air/fundacion_valparaiso.2702.html_
Julia Nunnally
Duncan's (fiction '94) poetry collection An
Endless Tapestry was released in October 2007 by
March Street Press and features a John Skoyles' blurb
that says "In An Endless Tapestry Julia Nunnally
Duncan renders the past with a specificity that is both
immediate and timeless....There are unforgettable
portraits here....[that] show a fine poet at the height
of her powers." (www.marchstreetpress.com)
Donna Henderson (poetry '06) has
work in the current and forthcoming
issues of The Dunes Review, as well as in
the Kent State U Press
recently-released anthology Stories of
Illness and Healing: Women Write Their
Bodies. A full-length collection of
her poems is scheduled for publication in 2009. She
continues to teach and to practice psychotherapy, and
has just begun an appointment as a visiting lecturer in
English at Willamette University, teaching a writing
class in poetry.
Janet Holmes (poetry
'85) was promoted to Full Professor
at Boise State University this year. In the fall, she
gave readings from her book F2F at George Mason
University, University of Wisconsin, Ball State
University, and the University of Denver's "Denver Min"
reading series, among others.
Marjorie Hudson's (fiction '00)
Searching for Virginia Dare (second edition,
Press 53) was a Fall 2007 selection of the
Readers-on-the-Road Book Club of the BookWomen Center
for Feminist Reading. Hudson's essay "Darlin Corey,"
about the song and the dog that saved her life, is
forthcoming in Carolina Music, an anthology
edited by Ann Wicker (Novello Festival Press); her essay
"Sufi Dancing with Dad" is forthcoming in Fall 2008 in
the anthology Wild in our Breast: Women Speak to the
Recurring Realities of War, ed. MariJo Moore
(Fulcrum Publishing, Golden,
Colorado).
Roy Jacobstein's (poetry '01)
latest poetry collection Fuchsia in Cambodia will
be published March 2008 by Northwestern University
Press/TriQuarterly Books. He also has work
forthcoming in The Southern Review, Threepenny
Review, TriQuarterly, and Michigan Quarterly
Review (including a poem dedicated to his sterling
public defender, that superb poet, great guy and
all-around mensch, Wally grad Greg Rappleye), and is a
2007-2008 Fellow of the North Carolina Arts Council.
Marsha Smith Janson (poetry '06)
has appeared in Rattle, Winter
2007 and is forthcoming in Green Mts.
Review. Her poetry manuscript Letter Written in
this Life, Mailed from the Next was a finalist last
year with Ausable
Press.
Paul Jones (poetry '93) has
published a translation of Dafydd ap Gwilym's "Y Gal" in
Best Erotic
Poems: 1800 - Present. Additional
poems by Jones (not translations) have been published on
the News and Observer Book Pages in the past
year. Jones was University Distinguished Lecturer at
Kansas State University and speaker at the Computer
Science winter graduation ceremony at North Carolina
State University.
Susan Kelly's (fiction '99)
fourth novel, Now You
Know, has just been published by
Pegasus Books.
Judith Krause (poetry '98) has a
new collection, Mongrel Love, coming out with
Hagios Press in April
2008.
Sue
Lipsiner-Versenyi (poetry '86) died of cancer
in August, 2006. As a memorial to Versenyi, in September
2007 The Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the
South, published her book of poems, Enough Room.
RCWMS is a group to which Versenyi was close. To order
Enough Room, send $19 to RCWMS, 1202 Watts St., Durham, NC 27701, or see www.rcwms.org. Versenyis is survived by her husband
Adam, two teenaged daughters, Elena and Nina, and scores
of friends. She was
forty-nine
Jynne Dilling Martin (poetry
'06) has poetry recently out or forthcoming in the
Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review,
TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, New Orleans Review and Perihelion.
Paul Michel (fiction '98) has three short stories coming out. "Not
the King of Prussia" will be published by Glimmer
Train sometime this year or in '09; "Tea for
Tito"will appear in the spring '08 edition of
Inkwell, and "No Better Deal" will appear in the
next issue of the Roanoke Review. Paul also
performs on a new CD featuring country duet music:
Paul Michel & Sally Rose, Old-Time Songs and
Fiddle Tunes, available from www.cdbaby.com (or directly from Paul; pm@paulmichel.com). The CD includes an original song,
"Belly of the Mountain," inspired by a wonderful poem in
Wally grad Diane Gilliam's collection Kettle
Bottom, as well as a bunch of old favorites by the
Carter Family, Stanley Brothers,
etc.
Sally Molini (poetry '04) will
have poems appear in Calyx, Bateau, The Ledge,
Segue, Avatar Review, Snow Monkey, Ab Ovo, and Gargoyle.
Dale Neal's (fiction '89) story
"Yonaguska," told from the point of view of a bear,
appeared in the summer/fall 2007 edition of Nantahala
Review.
Hilary Mosher (poetry '98) will
graduate from the University of Iowa Carver College of
Medicine in May 2008. While a medical student, she twice
won the Carol A. Bowman award for her personal essays
"Needle Night" and "Long Call, or, the Shrinking Man."
This year, she cofacilitated "The Examined Life," a
seminar on reading and writing for first and second year
medical students.
Gail Peck (poetry '87) has a new
chapbook titled From Terezin, published by
Pudding House Publications. She was also a 2007
finalist in the Nimrod/Hardman Poetry Contest; they will
publish several of her poems in the spring 2008 issue.
Edward
Porter (fiction '07) is currently the James C.
McCreight Fellow in Creative Writing at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. His short story "The Changing
Station" is forthcoming in the Winter 08 issue of Colorado
Review, and his
short-short "Phil and Emily" is featured in the current
issue of Inch
Magazine. Next fall
he'll enter the Ph.D. program at the University of
Houston.
Nate Pritts (poetry '00) first full length book Sensational
Spectacular came out October 2007. He also has a new chapbook coming out from Main
Street Rag called
Shrug.
Greg Rappleye (poetry '00) had a
poem on Verse Daily on
12/18/07.
James Reed (fiction '95) has
been awarded an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing for
2008.
Cynthia
Reeves's (fiction '06) first book of fiction,
Badlands, was published in late November by Miami
University Press (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/). She also has a flash fiction
being published in Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary
XXperimental Prose by Women Writers (June 2008).
Jim Schley (poetry '86) will release his first full-length
collection of poems in the spring of 2008. Entitled
As When, In Season, the book will be published by
Marick Press (http://marickpress.com/) as part of a new poetry list
edited by Ilya Kaminsky. Jim previously published a
chapbook, One Another (Chapiteau Press,
1999). He is director of The Frost Place, a museum and
poetry center at Robert Frost's former homestead in
Franconia, New Hampshire, where he hosts four
conferences each spring and
summer.
Kathryn Schwille (fiction '99)
had a story in the summer issue of River Styx.
She's spending five weeks in West Virginia this year as
writer-in-residence at Fairmont State
University.
Lee Sharkey (poetry '91) happily announces the publication of A
Darker, Sweeter String from Off the Grid Press
(www.offthegridpress.net). Betsy Sholl says of the book, "If our
dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our
nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the
urgency of our times."
Leslie Shipman (poetry '07) has
two poems forthcoming in the Fall 2008 issue of
The Kenyon
Review.
Susan Sterling's (fiction '92)
essay, "Radiation Blooms," which won the John Guyon
Literary Nonfiction Prize from Crab Orchard
Review, was listed as a notable essay in Best
American Essays 2007. Another essay, "Wigs,"
will appear in the winter issue of the Canadian
journal, Ars Medica, and "The Quilt People" will
appear in A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life,
Death, and Hospice, edited by Richard Russo, to be
published by Down East Books this
April.
Mary-Sherman
Willis (poetry '05) saw
the publication of poems in the spring Iowa
Review and Shenandoah, and the
autumn Hudson Review, as well as in the
anthologies, Not What I Expected:
The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to
Motherhood, ed Donya Currie Arias (Paycock Press),
and Family Pictures, ed Kwame
Alexander (Capital BookFest). Also,
a short story, "Dogs Will Be Dogs," in an
anthology, Electric Grace, Fiction by Washington
DC Area Women, ed Richard Peabody (Paycock Press).
She built a website in the summer, www.maryshermanwillis.com, and went to writing camp at the
MacDowell Colony for October. She returns to teaching at
George Washington University in spring
2008.
David Wroblewski's (fiction
'98) novel The
Story of Edgar Sawtell will come out from
HarperCollins this
June.
Paula Yoo's (fiction '02) debut
Young Adult novel, Good
Enough is just out from HarperCollins.
Booklist wrote: "Good Enough is a
funny, contemporary first novel about a high-achieving
high-school senior who struggles between her Korean
parents' expectations and her growing desire to shape
her own future." Kirkus Reviews wrote:
"Teens living through the pressure of college
applications and questioning their futures will
sympathize with Patti in this enjoyable, funny but not
superficial read." Paula has also published two
children's nonfiction picture books - the IRA Notable
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee
Story, illustrated by Dom Lee (Lee & Low Books)
and Shooting Star: The Anna May
Wong Story, illustrated by Lin
Wang, to be published by Lee &
Low Books in 2009.
