Department of English

Fiction

Chris Adrian (BA, 1993) The Great Night: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) A Better Angel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) The Children’s Hospital (McSweeney’s, 2007) Gob’s Grief (Broadway, 2001) Stories in The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Story, Esquire, Tin House Featured in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40 Fiction Issue” (2010), which recognized “twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction”

Jay Atkinson (MA, 1982) Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac’s Lost Highway and My Search for America (Wiley, 2010) Tauvernier Street (Livingston Press, University of West Alabama, 2010) City in Amber (Livingston Press, 2007) Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective (Crown Publishers, 2005) Ice Time (Crown Publishers, 2001), Publisher’s Weekly Notable Book of the Year; Winner of the Boston Magazine Fiction Prize Caveman Politics (Breakaway Books, 1997), Barnes & Noble/Discover Great New Writers selection Stories in Shenandoah, Crescent Review, Chattahootchee Review, West Branch, Pacific Review Essays and opinion in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newsday, Portland Oregonian, Men’s Health, Runner’s World, Poets & Writers; syndicated by The New York Times

Chris Bachelder (MFA, 2002) Abbott Awaits (Louisiana State University Press, 2011) U.S.! (Bloomsbury, 2006) Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (McSweeney’s e-book, 2004) Bear v. Shark (Scribner, 2001) Stories and essays in Harper’s, The Oxford American, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, The Cincinnati Review, The Mississippi Review Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati

Bill Beverly (MFA, 1991) On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America (Mississippi, 2003) Contributing Editor, 32 Poems Magazine Assistant Professor, Trinity Washington University

John Brandon (MFA pending) Citrus County (McSweeney’s, 2010), finalist, Young Lions Fiction Award Arkansas (McSweeney’s, 2008) Stories and articles in McSweeney’s, ESPN the Magazine, The Oxford American, The Pinch, The New York Times Magazine, Saw Palm, Tampa Review, GQ, The Believer, Mississippi Review, Subtropics Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing, University of Mississippi, 2009-2010 Visiting Writer-in-Residence, University of Mississippi, 2010-2011 Tickner Writing Fellow, Gilman School, 2011-2012

Wendy Brenner (MFA, 1991) Phone Calls from the Dead (Algonquin, 2001) Large Animals in Everyday Life (Georgia, 1996; Norton, 1997), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award Stories and essays in Allure, Seventeen, Travel & Leisure, Mississippi Review, The Oxford American, New England Review, New Stories from the South, and Best American Magazine Writing 2006 Winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award, the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award, and an NEA Fellowship Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Kevin Canty (MA, 1990) Everything (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2010) Where the Money Went (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009) Winslow in Love (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005) Honeymoon and Other Stories (Doubleday, 2001) Nine Below Zero (Doubleday, 1999) Into the Great Wide Open (Doubleday, 1997) A Stranger in This World (Doubleday, 1994) Stories in The New Yorker, Esquire, Story, Missouri Review, GQ,Tin House Essays in Vogue, The New York Times, Sophisticated Traveler, Details Winner of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award and the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association Award Professor, University of Montana

Peter Christopher (Deceased) (MFA, 1996) Campfires of the Dead (Knopf, 1989) Stories in Raritan, The Antioch Review, American Literary Review, New Letters, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art NEA Fellowship in Literature Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University

Charlie Geer (MFA, 2001) Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-day Charleston (River City Publishing, 2005) Stories in Tin House and Bloomsbury Magazine Essays inThe Sun and The Southern Review

Peter Grimes (MFA, 2003) Stories in Narrative, Mississippi Review, Lake Effect, Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Stream, Brand, Packingtown Review Flash Fiction Book Editor, FutureCycle Press Assistant Professor, Dickinson State University

Noy Holland (MFA, 1994) What Begins With Bird (Fiction Collective Two, 2005)  Spectacle of the Body (Knopf, 1994) Stories in Ploughshares, The Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions, Noon,Open City Winner of a Bread Loaf fellowship, a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an NEA fellowship Administers Writers in the Schools for western Massachusetts Past Director of Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Writer in Residence, Phillips Andover

David Johansson (BA, 1986) Skin of Sunset(Squire, 2008) Professor, Brevard Community College

Victoria Lancelotta (MFA, 1994) Far (Counterpoint, 2003) Here in the World (Counterpoint, 2000) Stories in Glimmer Train, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, Black Warrior Review Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Winner of the Henfield/Transatlantic Award

Margaret Luongo (MFA, 2001) If the Heart is Lean (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) Stories in Tin House, Jane, Kalliope, The Montserrat Review, Fence, Brilliant Corners, New South, North American Review, The Cincinnati Review, Granta on-line,and Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses Associate Professor, Miami University of Ohio

Mike Magnuson (MFA, 1997) Heft on Wheels (Harmony, 2004) Lummox: The Evolution of a Man (HarperCollins, 2002) The Fire Gospels (HarperCollins, 1998) The Right Man For the Job (HarperCollins, 1997), cited by Library Journal as one of the best books of 1997 Stories and articles in Esquire and GQ Contributing writer with Bicycling magazine Associate Professor and past Director, MFA program, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Sam Michel (MFA, 1994) Big Dogs and Flyboys: A Novel (Southern Methodist University Press, 2007) Under the Light (Knopf, 1991) Stories in Epoch and Massachusetts Review Writer in Residence, Phillips Andover and Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Emily Jeanne Miller (MFA, 2002) Two-book contract with Harcourt Houghton Mifflin; her first novel, After Augustus, will be published in 2012 Stories in The Portland Review and North American Review

Kevin Moffett (BA, 1996; MFA pending) Permanent Visitors (University of Iowa Press, 2006) Fiction in McSweeney’s, Harvard Review, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Chicago Tribune, Best American Short Stories,New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best; non-fiction in The Believer, A Public Space,The Guardian (U.K.) Recipient of The Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an NEA Fellowship in Literature Assistant Professor, California State University, San Bernardino

Oindrilla Mukherjee (MFA, 2004) 2009 - 2011 Emory University Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction Stories and essays in Gulf Coast, Salon, Vandal, and anthologized in Indian Voices, Volume I (FortytwoBookz Galaxy), and Best New Writing 2010 (Hopewell Publications, 2010) Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University

Michael Newirth (MFA, 1995) Essays and stories in The Baffler, Open City, Chicago Reader, Pushcart Prize XXII, Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy Fiction Editor, Bridge Magazine Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago and the MCW program at Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies

Maud Newton (BA, 1993) http://maudnewton.com/blog/ Essays in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Granta, The American Prospect, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post Book World, Newsday Winner of the 2009 Narrative prize for fiction

Jason Ockert (BA, 1995) Neighbors of Nothing (Dzanc Books, 2013), winner of the 2010 Dzanc Short Story Collection contest Rabbit Punches (Low Fidelity Press, 2006) Stories in McSweeney's, The Oxford American, The Iowa Review, Ecotone, Witness, New Stories form the South, Best American Mystery Stories Fiction editor, Waccamaw Assistant Professor and Graduate Director, M.A. in Writing program, University of Coastal South Carolina

Jeff Parker (BA, 1996) The Taste of Penny (Dzanc Books, 2010) Ovenman (Tin House Books, 2007) Co-Editor, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House Books, 2009) and Amerika: Russian Writers View the U.S. (Dalkey Archive, 2004) Stories and essays in American Short Fiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Walrus Assistant Professor and Director, MA in Creative Writing, University of Toronto

Imad Rahman (MFA, 2001) I Dream of Microwaves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) Wisconsin Fellowship Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University Director, Imagination Writers Conference

Paul Reyes (MFA, 1997) Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession (Henry Holt & Co., 2010) Essays in Harper’s, The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Details, Men’s Vogue, Mississippi Review 2009 National Magazine Award finalist for Feature Writing NEA Fellowship in Literature Former assistant editor, Harper’s Magazine; former editor at large, The Oxford American Contributing editor, Virginia Quarterly Review

Richard Schmitt (BA, 1995) The Aerialist (Overlook Press, 2000) Stories in Blackbird, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, Flyway, Marlboro Review Associate Professor, West Virginia Wesleyan College

Russ Schneider (Deceased) (MA, 1986) Siege (Doubleday, 2003) Gotterdammerung 1945: Germany’s Last Stand in the East (Eastern Front Books, 1998) Demyansk: More Tales from the Russian Wilderness 1941-45 (Neue Paradies Verlag, 1995) Madness Without End: Tales of Horror from the Russian Wilderness 1941-45 (Neue Paradies Verlag, 1994)

August J. Specht II (BA, 1987) Jefferson's Sword: Meriwether Lewis: Witness to Thomas Jefferson's Duplicitous Plots (CreateSpace, 2010) How to Close Sales Appointments: Meet the Right People at the Right Time with the Right Strategy (iUniverse, 2005)

Eva Talmadge (BA, 2003) Co-editor, with Justin Taylor, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide (Harper Perennial, 2010) Stories in Subtropics, the Agriculture Reader, The New York Tyrant, New Orleans Review, elimae Resident, MacDowell Colony (2009) and Ucross (2011) Former literary agent, Emma Sweeney Agency

Matt Tarses (MFA, 1993) Consulting Producer, Men at Work Creator/Series Producer, Mad Love Executive Producer, Worst Week Co-Executive Producer/Consulting Producer, Scrubs Co-Producer/Producer, Sports Night Writer, Mad Love, Worst Week, Scrubs, Norm, Sports Night, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Justin Taylor (BA, 2004) The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial, 2011) Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial, 2010) Editor, The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder’s Mouth, 2007) and Come Back, Donald Barthelme (McSweeney’s, 2007) Essays in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Bookforum, The Oxford American

Richard K. Weems (MFA, 1993) Anything He Wants (Spire, 2006), finalist, 2008 Eric Hoffer Book Award The Need for Character (Revelever, 2004) Stories in North American Review, Gettysburg Review, Other Voices, The Mississippi Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal Director, Creative Writing Division, New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts

Kevin Wilson (MFA, 2004) The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011) Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco, 2009), winner, 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association and 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Story Collection Stories in Ploughshares, One Story, Greensboro Review, Tin House,Cincinnati Review, New Stories from the South 2005, New Stories from the South 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 Resident, McDowell Colony (2004), KHN Center for the Arts, and Yaddo Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Certificate of Creative Writing, Sewanee: The University of the South.

Martin Wilson (MFA, 1998) What They Always Tell Us (Delacorte Press, 2008) Stories and essays in Virgin Fiction 2, Pieces: A Collection of New Voices, Rebel Yell 2, Rush Hour, Tin House, Publishers Weekly, Austin Chronicle Winner of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award and the Alabama Author Award for best young adult book Publicity Manager, HarperCollins

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Poetry

Eve Adamson (MFA, 1991) Real Moms Love to Eat, with Beth Aldrich (Penguin, 2012) The Organic Nanny’s Guide to a Healthy Child, with Barbara Rodriguez (Perseus, 2012) Three New York Times Best Sellers co-written with TV star Bethenny Frankel: Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life (Touchstone, 2011), The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life (Touchstone, 2009), Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting (Touchstone, 2009) Cooking Basics for Dummies, revised 4th edition, with Bryan Miller (Wiley, 2011) 365 Ways to Reduce Stress (Adams Media, 2010) Pets Gone Green: Live a More Eco-Conscious Life with Your Pets (Bowtie, 2009) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chakras, with Betsy Rippentrop, Ph.D. (Alpha, 2009) Chow Hound (Sterling, 2009) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Gluten-Free Eating, with Tricia Thompson, RD (Alpha, 2007) Winner of the 2007 ASPCA Humane Issues Award for Adopting a Pet for Dummies (Wiley, 2005) Mediterranean Women Stay Slim Too: Eating to be Sexy, Fit & Fabulous,with Mellisa Kelly (HarperCollins, 2006) HarperEssentials Beer Guide (HarperEssentials, 2006) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Natural Magick (recipe writer) (Alpha Books, 2005) Cooking Basics for Dummies, 3rd edition rev. (John Wiley, 2005) Adopting a Pet for Dummies (John Wiley, 2005) The Golden Retriever (TFH, 2005) CD: The Dick Watson Trio, Live at the Lighthouse III featuring Eve Adamson Lives and works as a freelance writer and jazz singer in Iowa City

Deborah Ager (MFA, 1997) Midnight Voices (Cherry Grove Collections, 2009) Poems in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Gargoyle Magazine, New England Review, and American Literary Review Residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Editor of 32 Poems magazine

Carin Besser (MFA, 1996) Former fiction editor, The New Yorker

Joe Bolton (Deceased) (MA, 1988) The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982–1990, ed. by Donald Justice (Arkansas, 1999) Days of Summer Gone (Galileo, 1990) Poems in The New Criterion, The New Republic, North American Review, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Yale Review

William Bowers (MFA, 1999) All We Read Is Freaks (Harcourt, forthcoming) Essays and criticism in Magnet, The Oxford American, Pitchfork,No Depression,White Noise: The Eminen Collection

Geoffrey Brock (MFA, 1998) Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005), winner, 2004 New Criterion Poetry Prize Translator Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi (NYRB Classics, 2008), Skylark Farm, by Antonia Arslan (Knopf, 2006); The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco (Harcourt, 2005); K., by Roberto Calasso (Knopf, 2005); and Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950, by Cesare Pavese (Copper Canyon, 2002) Winner of the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize from Poetry, the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association, the Lois Roth Award from the MLA, and the PEN Center USA Translation Award Poems and translations in Poetry, Paris Review, Southern Review, The New Republic,The New Yorker,Best American Poetry 2007 Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, and the American Academy in Rome Fellowships from the Academy of American Poets (Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship), the Florida Arts Council, the American Antiquarian Society, Stanford University (Wallace Stegner Fellowship), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation Associate Professor, University of Arkansas

David Caplan (MFA, 1994) In the World He Created According to His Will (University of Georgia Press / VQR Poetry Series, 2010) Poetic Form: An Introduction (Longman, 2005) Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford, 2004; paperback, 2006) Essays in Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, New Literary History, and in essay collections published in American, Germany, Belgium, and France Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, University of Liège (Belgium) Poetics Fellow, The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University Contributing Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review Affiliated Researcher (Chercheur Affilié), Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée, University of Liége (Belgium) Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University

Rick Chess (MA, 1984) Third Temple (University of Tampa Press, 2007) Chair in the Desert (University of Tampa Press, 2000) Tekiah (University of Georgia 1994; reissued by University of Tampa Press, 2000) Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Director, UNCA’s Center for Jewish Studies

Geri Doran (MFA, 1995) Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011) Resin (LSU Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Poems in The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, 32 Poems 2001 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry; 2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar; recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Literary Arts, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

Jeffrey Franklin (MFA, 1991, PhD, 1995) The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (Cornell University Press, 2008) For the Lost Boys (Ghost Road Press, 2006) Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver

Jerry Harp (MFA,1991) For Us, What Music?: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice (University of Iowa Press, 2010) Editor (with Jan Weissmiller), A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006) Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains (Salt Publishing, 2005) Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004), co-winner, 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003) Poems in the Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades Co-editor of a collection of essays about contemporary poetry, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming) Visiting Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College

Robert Bernard Hass (MFA, 1987) Counting Thunder (David Robert Books, 2008) Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict With Science (University of Virginia Press, 2002) Professor, Edinboro University

Rhoda Janzen (MA, 1989) Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Henry Holt and Co., 2009), a New York Times bestseller Babel’s Stair (WordTech Communications, 2006) Associate Professor, Hope College

Noelle Kocot (MFA, 1995) The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011) Damon’s Room (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), a discography Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) Home of the Cubit Idea (Wave Books, formerly Verse Press, 2008) Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006) The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004) 4 (Four Way Books, 2001), winner of the Levis Prize Poems in Best American Poetry 2001, New American Writing, The Iowa Review, Fence, Another Chicago Magazine, American Poetry Review Winner of the 1997 S.J. Marks Memorial Prize Recipient of an NEA Fellowship and a grant from The Fund for Poetry

Andrew Kozma (MFA, 2002) City of Regret (Zone 3 Press, 2007)

Matthew Ladd (MFA, 2006) The Book of Emblems (Waywiser Press, 2010); winner, 2009 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) Breakfast with Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press, 2009) Writing Poems (Pearson Longman, 2007) Complaint in the Garden (Zoo Press, 2004), winner, 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry for a First Book Poems in the Kenyon Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Salmagundi, Washington Post Essays and criticism in American Book Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Verse Finalist, California Book Award and Lambda Literary Award Visiting Professor, University of Missouri at Kansas City

Arthur McMaster (MFA, 2004) The Spy Who Came Down with a Cold (Finishing Line Press, 2011) Musical Muse: Wives and Lovers of the Great Composers (Orchard Park Press, 2007) Poems and stories in Southwest Review, North American Review, Subtropics, Wisconsin Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East Visiting Associate Professor, Converse College

Donald Morrill (MA, 1985) Impetuous Sleeper (Mid-List Press, 2009) With Your Back to Half the Day (Anhinga Press, 2005) The Untouched Minutes (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), winner, 2004 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award Sounding for Cool (Michigan State University Press, 2002) A Stranger’s Neighborhood (Duquesne University Press, 1998) At the Bottom of the Sky (Mid-List Press, 1998) Poetry in North American Review, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner Nonfiction in Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Fourth Genre, Manoa, Five Points, Grand Tour, Bellingham Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and anthologized inThe Art of Creative Nonfiction (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, The Massachusetts Review, 2010; the Mid-List First Series Award; the Community Residency Award from the Writer’s Voice Project of the national YMCA; and The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize for Nonfiction Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lodz, Poland, 1988-89 Dr. R. Bruce & Barbara G. Bedell Writer-in-Residence, University of Iowa, Spring 2006 Tammis Day Poet-In Residence, Smith College, Spring 2011 MFA Associate Faculty, Antioch University Los Angeles Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies and Dana Professor of English, University of Tampa

Phoebe North (MFA, 2009) Starglass (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013) Poems and stories in elimae, Strange Horizons, Night Train, Nth Position, Weave, Umbrella,and anthologized in Playthings of the Gods (Drollerie Press, 2011)

John Poch (MFA, 1997) Dolls (Orchises Press, 2009) Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line Press, 2008), winner, 2008 Donald Justice Prize Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle (Flying Horse Editions, 2006) Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection, with Chad Davidson (St. Martin’s Press, 2006) Poems (Orchises Press, 2004) In Defense of the Fall (Trilobite Press, 2000) Poems in Ploughshares, Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Agni Winner of the 1998 “Discovery”/The Nation Prize 2000–2001 Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Saltonstall Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center Editor, 32 Poems magazine Professor, Texas Tech University

Dan Rifenburgh (MA, 1986) Advent (Waywiser Press & Dufour Editions, 2002) Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Natalie Ornish Award for First Book of Poetry Texas Institute of Letters 2004–05 Dobie-Paisano Fellow Tennessee Williams Poetry Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference Participant in the National Endowment For The Arts Operation Homecoming Judge for the Texas Institute of Letters’ Smith Award for Best Book of Poetry of The Year

Ralph Savarese (MFA, 1994) Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption (Other Press, 2007) Poems, essays, translations, and literary criticism in American Poetry Review, Sewanee Review, Seneca Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, Another Chicago Magazine, New York Times, Prose Studies, Leviathan, A/B: Autobiography, Best American Essays 2004 Winner of the Hennig Cohen Prize for the best scholarly essay on Herman Melville for the year 2003, and a chapter from his forthcoming book was selected by Robert Atwan and Louis Mennand as a “notable essay” for 2004 (in the Best American Essays series) Winner of the 2003 Hennig Cohen Prize for the best scholarly essay on Herman Melville of the year Assistant Professor, Grinnell College

Alexandra Teague (MFA, 1998) Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship Assistant Professor, University of Idaho

Chris Tusa (MFA, 2000) Dirty Little Angels (University of West Alabama, 2009) Haunted Bones (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006)

Adam Vines (MFA, 2006) The Coal Life (University of Arkansas Press, 2012) Editor, Birmingham Poetry Review Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

C. Dale Young (MFA, 1993) Torn (Four Way Books, 2011) The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007) The Day Underneath the Day (TriQuarterly Books, 2001) Poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Best American Poetry 1996 and The Best American Poetry 2008 Recipient of the Grolier Prize, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Fellowship to Yaddo, and a 2009 NEA Fellowship Poetry Editor, New England Review Faculty, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers

Lauren Wilcox (MFA, 2001) Articles in The Washington Post Magazine and Smithsonian Magazine Former associate editor, The Oxford American

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