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Tami Haaland, MFA ’00 (Poetry) published her fourth poetry collection,, on April 1 via Lost Horse Press. 

Jean Marie Hackett, MFA ’24 (Fiction) published a new hybrid piece titled “” in Hobart Pulp (where she also published a piece in December 2024 titled “”). Jean Marie also has a flash piece forthcoming in the fall print issue of Door is a Jar Literary Magazine. 

Elizabeth Knapp, MFA ’00 (Poetry)’s third collection of poems, Causa Sui, has won the and will be published in September. A poem from the book, "" appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Massachusetts Review.

Alysse Kathleen McCanna, MFA '15’s poetry collection, Fishwife (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), has been selected as a . The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, July 26 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House Studio Loft.

Ali Meyers-Ohki, MFA candidate in Fiction, published two poems in Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, an anthology publishing on April 1 by Haymarket Books.

Abby Paige, MFA ’09 (Poetry) published on April 5 via University of Maine Press. Piecework is a bilingual collection of two plays that explore Franco American identity and the little-known history of the borderlands between francophone Canada and northern New England.

Felicia A. Rivers, MFA ’23 (Fiction) published a flash fiction piece, "That Ugly Thing,” in Issue 14 of .

Diana Ruzova, MFA ’23 (Nonfiction), published a new craft essay in Brevity titled
“.”

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA '24 (Fiction), has been awarded a for Literature for 2025, for a story collection in progress.

Louise Bokkenheuser, MFA '23 (Fiction), published an article, "" in The New Yorker.

Amber Caron, MFA ’16 (Fiction)’s book Call Up the Waters has . The award was founded in 2016 to promote recently published books and to honor central Arkansas author and literary advocate Phillip H. McMath, who selects the overall winner from finalists chosen by students in the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop.

Jaime Clarke, MFA ’97 (Fiction), is staging April 22-25 to celebrate his literary projects and the writers who contributed to them. Limited complimentary copies available courtesy of Newtonville Books.

Kevin Galvin, MFA ’25 (Fiction), has sold his book, Troubled Times, the story of a bombing in the heart of Boston a half-century ago, which explores the roots and costs of political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis, to . It is slated for publication in 2026.

Mollie Hawkins, MFA ’23 (Fiction) published a flash nonfiction piece, "" in Hawai`i Pacific Review.

Edmée Lepercq, MFA '23 (Nonfiction) published an essay on grief, Bermuda, and tombstones for The Yale Review titled "."

Ali Meyers-Ohki, MFA candidate in Fiction, will publish two poems in , an anthology publishing on April 1 by Haymarket Books.

Brooke Middlebrook, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published a flash essay, "" in Lost Balloon.

Matt W Miller, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, was in Narratively’s 2024 Memoir Prize. The title of his essay is “One of My Babies,” and it will be published this spring. 

Abby Paige, MFA ’09 (Poetry), will publish on April 5 via University of Maine Press. Piecework is a bilingual collection of two plays that explore Franco American identity and the little-known history of the borderlands between francophone Canada and northern New England.

Priscilla Posada, MFA ’24 (Nonfiction) published an essay on clowning, “” in the LA Times.

Robert Powell, MFA candidate in Poetry, is the founding editor of , a new online poetry journal geared to showcasing the work neurodivergent and cognitively challenged artists. The journal was conceived during last June’s residency, and the inaugural issue, [case#1], has just gone live for any and all to read.

Amy Raasch, MFA '24 (Poetry), published a poem, "Blue Star Coffee," in the inaugural issue of  founded by Chelsea Hodson MFA '17 (Nonfiction).

Guillermo Rebollo Gil, MFA '23 (Poetry), published in On the Seawall.

Brian Thompson, MFA candidate in Fiction, published "," a new short story, in Issue 16 of Funicular Magazine.

J. Mae Barizo, MFA ’13 (Poetry) published ",” a new poem, in The Atlantic.

Jennifer Edwards, MFA candidate in Poetry, published a poem, "Meat Bingo at the Legion,” in the February issue of .

Quinn Franzen, MFA '23 (Poetry), published a poem titled "" in Sonora Review.

Kaycie Hall, MFA '22 (Nonfiction) sold her essay collection, Disenchanted, to  Books. It is slated for publication in fall 2026. Kaycie also published an essay, "," in No Tokens Journal.

Mollie Hawkins, MFA ’23 (Fiction) published , a book in the Object Lessons series by Bloomsbury, on February 20. 

Anne Garland Mahler, MFA candidate in fiction, published an essay, “,” in Cultural Critique. This essay argues for a re-examination of the work of renowned Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti through the lens of “relational aesthetics.”

Ariél M. Martinez, MFA ’22 (Nonfiction) interviewed professional dominatrix Brittany Newell about her second novel, , for Electric Literature.

Brooke Middlebrook, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published a new essay in Fugue, "."

David Lerner Schwartz, MFA ’18 (Fiction), was selected as a finalist for Nimrod International Journal’s for his short story, “We Can Voyage There.” Additionally, David published a short story titled "" in New Orleans Review, and he also recently joined the University of Central Florida as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English in the MFA program.

Eric Stinton, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published an essay on Sport Literate, “” about cockfighting, which becomes a meditation on race, class, culture and the limits of being a teacher.

Barrett Warner, MFA '13 (Poetry), published a short story, "," in Otis Nebula.

Krysia Wazny McClain, MFA ’22 (Poetry), published in Bicoastal Review:  “Jack-in-the-Pulpit IV (1930) by Georgia O'Keeffe,” “Pleasure Bay,” and “Ode to the Ocean on a Last Date.”

Christian Gilman Whitney, MFA ’16 (Fiction) published his novel, on January 28 via Atmosphere Press.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA '24 (Fiction) published her novella, Lalita, on January 28 as part of the collection from Panhandler Books. Chaya will also be the visiting writer at early next month, in a series that has had past speakers include Ramona Ausubel, Jai Chakhrabarti, Manuel Gonzalez, Jenny Boully, and other members of the BWS community.

Marian Bull, MFA candidate in nonfiction, has been selected to be the fourteenth Residential Teaching Fellow at �����Ź��� Writing Seminars.

April Darcy, MFA ’16 (Fiction) won first place in the for fiction for her short story, “Elephants on Parade.” She will be attending the festival for an award winner's panel called "Tomorrow's Bestsellers Today.”

Linda Michel-Cassidy, MFA ’15 (Dual Fiction/Nonfiction) will publish her story collection  (Eastover Press) on February 3. 

Nina Peláez, MFA ’24 (Poetry), was featured in Brooklyn Poets as their . They republished a poem "Diptych" which she began writing while at �����Ź��� and which recently won, chosen by January Gill O'Neil.

Maya Ribault, MFA ’18 (Poetry) will have a poem, "Society of Fireflies,” featured in A . It will be released on February 4 by Knopf. 

Jane Stringham, MFA '23 (Fiction) published three translated poems, "Resolutions," "Don't Look Now," and "Witches' Flight" in the . She also published two translated poems, "Variations" and "This is Not a Horror Poem" in the online features section.

Kim Sunée, MFA candidate in Poetry, published a new poem, “,” in Tupelo Quarterly. The poem received a by Kristina Marie Darling. 

Richard Brait, MFA '22 (Poetry)'s poem, “,” placed second in the 2024 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, and is published in issue 172 of The New Quarterly. In addition, he was interviewed about the poem and his Newfoundland verse generally, by consulting editor Barbara Carter, and this appears in  online.

Jen Edwards, MFA candidate in Poetry, published a poem in Beaver Magazine (Issue 11), "." She also published a poem, “," in The Shore. Another of Jen's poems, "Hanky," was chosen by Iron Horse Literary Review as a finalist in their NaPoMo contest and will appear in their in April 2025.

Rachel Greenley, MFA '23 (Nonfiction) published an essay, "Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich," in .

Kaycie Hall, MFA '23 (Nonfiction), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her essay, "," which appeared in No Tokens Journal. 

Mary Jones, MFA '10 (Fiction)'s novel, The Goodbye Process: Stories, was included on Library Journal's "" list.

Fabienne François Keck, MFA '24 (Fiction), has a new short story, "Therapy," in the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of . 

Kelly Marages, MFA '15 (Fiction), April Darcy MFA '16 (Fiction/Nonfiction '16), and Ann Marie Brzozowski MFA '16 (Fiction), are the recipients of a residency, the at Big Bend. The group will spend two weeks in spring 2025 working and writing together.

Ali Meyers-Ohki (MFA candidate in Fiction)'s short film, En Memoria (co-written with Roberto Fatal), has been accepted to . 

Rena J. Mosteirin, MFA '18 (Poetry) published a new poem, "Last Night California," in , as part of their celebration of Wong Kar Wai's film Chunking Express. Rena also has a few poems in , an anthology published by MIT Press. 

Rebekah Pahl, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published an essay, "," in Los Angeles Times Image magazine. The essay is both an exploration of the cosmic coming-of-age framework with astrologer Chani Nicholas as well as a reflection on self-authorship and impending motherhood.

Nina C. Peláez, MFA '24 (Poetry), published a poem, "," in Swamp Pink.

Robert Powell, MFA candidate in Poetry, published a new poem, "And may have been spared the horror, after the ATM," in Issue #3 of —a quarterly print magazine, dedicated poetry, prose, as well as experimental and visual media that blurs the lines between what's considered "low” and “high brow" subjects and mediums.

Diana Ruzova, MFA '23 (Nonfiction) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her Brevity essay, "." 

Kelly Sather, MFA '15 (Fiction) published a short story in the latest issue of , titled "God's Work."

Nikki Volpicelli, MFA '24 published a piece of fiction, "Book of Ruth," in . 

Kim Young, MFA '08 (Poetry) published an essay, "," in Alta Journal. She also published another essay, “” on LitHub.

Issam Zineh, MFA '24 (Poetry)'s poem, "," was selected as The Yale Review's Poem of the Week. 

Brooke Middlebrook, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, has a visual poem, "," in The Cincinnati Review's miCRo series.

Jeffrey Perkins, MFA '09 (Poetry) and AVP for Communications and Marketing at �����Ź��� College, wrote a spotlight about Atlas Obscura Co-Founder Dylan Thuras '04. 

Stacey Resnikoff, MFA '21 (Fiction) published “,” a story of a family’s growing political division, in The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review. This story was also shortlisted for Cutbank Literary Magazine’s 2024 Montana Prize in Fiction, judged by Christine Byl.

Maya Ribault, MFA '18 (Poetry)'s poem "Society of Fireflies" was selected to be included in the anthology: , which will be released in February 2025 (Knopf).

Diana Ruzova, MFA '23 (Nonfiction) has a new piece, "" in HAD.

Kelly Sather, MFA '15 (Fiction) published an essay, "," on Literary Hub.

Duncan Whitmire, MFA '24 (Fiction) has published a craft essay, "," in CRAFT.

Marilyn Martin Zion, MFA '10 (Nonfiction) published an essay about grief, gardening and the loss of forests, "My Father's Iris," in . 

Louise Bokkenheuser, MFA '23 (Fiction) wrote a feature for the latest issue of �����Ź��� Magazine, highlighting thirty years of the �����Ź��� Writing Seminars.

Miriam Camitta, MFA '16 (Fiction), published "" an essay about surviving the trauma of a sibling’s schizophrenia and the healing effect of the kindness of others, in Image Journal.

JoeAnn Hart, MFA ’00 (Fiction) published her new eco-novel, , through Green Writers Press, on October 1.

Elisabetta La Cava, MFA candidate in Fiction/Nonfiction, is the 2024 winner of the . Elisabetta won the award with her nonfiction piece, “Not Your Cinema Paradiso,” which is an excerpt from a longer work in progress. Recipients of the 2024 New Letters Literary Awards receive a cash prize and publication in the winter/spring 2024 issue of New Letters.

James Roseman, MFA '22 (Fiction) was featured in an interview with , discussing his new novel . 

Eugenie Dalland, MFA candidate, , Natasha Newman-Thomas, for the September issue of the Los Angeles Times Image Magazine.

Rachel Greenley, MFA ’23 (Nonfiction), published a new piece of nonfiction, “Here in Umatilla,” in Vol. 45, No. 3 (2024) of

Christine O’Donnell, MFA ’23 (Fiction), published a new essay, “,” in Porter House Review.

Robert Powell, MFA candidate in Poetry, has been published for the second time in, an online journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, on August 31, Issue #16. His piece is titled "always and still, leagues above—".

Jamie Quatro, MFA '09 (Fiction), published her new novel, , on September 10 via Grove Press.

Amy Raasch (MFA '24, Poetry) has been nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net by Does it Have Pockets?, with her poem, " Amy has also been named a semifinalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, judged by Kim Addonizio. 

Guillermo Rebollo Gil, MFA ’23 (Poetry), published a new poetry collection, , via Folium books. 

Carson Fletcher Reid, MFA '22 (Fiction), published a new story, in Narrative Magazine. The story was selected as a Story of the Week.

James Roseman, MFA '22 (Fiction), will publish his novel, , on September 26 via Verve Books (UK).

Kathy Satterfield, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published a piece, “,” on her son's rare diagnosis in Mom Egg Review’s online folio on Medical Motherhood.

JP (Jennifer) Solheim, MFA ’18 (Fiction), is featured with her story "We Knew a World" (originally published in Bellevue Literary Review) on the .

Aurélie Thiele, MFA candidate in Fiction, published her novel, , via Alcove Press on September 10. This powerful debut novel brings to life the hard choices Parisians made—or failed to make—under Nazi occupation, in the tradition of Pam Jenoff and Fiona Davis.

John Beebe-West, MFA '18 (Nonfiction), sold his second book, Fertile Circuits, revealing the rot lurking in the foundation of the internet and arguing that we should embrace the death of our online ephemera in order to reclaim a more human world, to Lisa Ann Cockrel at Eerdmans. It is slated for publication in fall 2026.

Arlene DeMaris, MFA ’24 (Poetry), has won first place in the for her poem, “Telling the Hive." She has also published two poems, “Georgina and the Eels” and “Space” in the 2024 Connecticut River Review. 

Emily Berge-Thielmann (MFA candidate) published an essay, in Electric Lit.

Ellen Ann Fentress, MFA ’08 (Nonfiction)’s memoir, The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning, has been selected as the From Great Places pick, representing Mississippi at the National Book Festival in Washington on August 24.

JoeAnn Hart, MFA '00 (Fiction), will be publishing a new book, Arroyo Circle, in October via . 

Christine Herzer, MFA ’09 (Poetry)’s original artwork is on , a magazine published by the Lithuanian Culture Institute. This issue was guest-edited by Jean-Max Colard. Inside, she also has an 8 page-portfolio of written drawings.

Fabienne François Keck, MFA ’24 (Fiction) has been selected as one of two . The Teaching Fellowship for Black Writers provides financial and professional development support to two self-identified Black writers interested in teaching classes, participating in events, and working with Grub Street instructors and staff to deepen the curriculum.

Mary Jones, MFA '10 (Fiction) published her story collection, , via Zibby Books on July 30. The collection has also ranked on the

Jean Marie, MFA ’24 (Fiction) published a story, “,” in Does It Have Pockets. 

Ariél Martinez, MFA ’22 (Nonfiction) , the author of An Honest Woman: a Memoir of Sex Work and Love, for Interview Magazine.

Linda Michel-Cassidy, MFA ’15 (Nonfiction/Fiction) sold her story collection, , to Eastover Press, slated for publication January 21, 2025.

Liesl Schwabe, MFA '05 (Nonfiction) recently received a . She will be spending the '24-25 academic year in Kolkata, India with her family.

Ana Maria Voiculet, MFA ’24 (Poetry) in a Quebec-wide writing competition organized by the Montreal Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network. Based on the numbers of views (readers) the poem gathers online, it may qualify to represent Canada in the Poetry World Cup in January 2025. The poem, “Aporia illness,” will be published in September.

Jennifer Edwards, MFA candidate (Poetry), published a villanelle, "Learning Taekwondo With My Tween Son," in . She also has recently joined the board as Events Coordinator. 

Mary Jones, MFA '10 (Fiction), published a short story, "," in the Spring/Summer issue of Subtropics.

Julia Juster, MFA '24 (Nonfiction), published "," an essay of excerpts from her manuscript in progress on mustangs, American myths, and land management, in Conjunctions.

Nina Peláez, MFA '24 (Poetry)'s poem, "Prayer After Iconoclasm," was selected for Rattle's poem of the week. Nina appeared on the on July 14 to discuss the piece. 

Amy Raasch, MFA '24 (Poetry), published two poems, "Ashes" & "Why I Am Not a Gravedigger," in latest issue of .

Ashley Rubell (candidate in Nonfiction) is one of four winners in from Narratively in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction, for her piece, “” The series is a special collaboration from Narratively and Creative Nonfiction that explores how writing moves us and changes us in ways we might never expect.

Rowena Leong Singer, MFA '16, , whose debut novel We Were the Universe (Knopf) is a USA Today national bestseller, for CRAFT Literary. 

Aigner Loren Wilson, MFA candidate in Fiction, is a finalist in the Critics Award section of the , for her collection of reviews and articles. 

Jeanne Bonner, MFA ’16 (Fiction), and the ways it felt like a home movie filmed during the most pivotal part of her life, for CNN. 

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA ’24 (Fiction), has been awarded a residency grant from . Chaya has also won first place in the for “Orchid,” an excerpt from her book, Orchid: A Memoir. 

Jennifer Edwards, MFA candidate in poetry, published a poem, “Father’s Grapefruit,” in , an anthology about food (Friendly City Books).

Elisabetta La Cava, dual MFA candidate in Fiction and Nonfiction, published an essay, “,” in Cleaver.

Edmée Lepercq, MFA ’23 (Nonfiction), wrote a book review, “,” for Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Tori Malcangio, MFA '14 (Fiction)’s essay, “Racing,” from her memoir MY HEART IS A BOMB, is one of two pieces picked as an editors’ choice selection for the . 

Matt W. Miller, MFA candidate in Nonfiction, published “” an essay about the movies, Lord of the Rings, fathers and sons, and why we need to tell stories to hold some light in the dark, in Cutleaf.

Alyssa Natoci, MFA ’23 (Fiction), published a short story, “,” in No Tokens (Issue 11, Spring/Summer 2024). 

Amy Raasch, MFA ’24 (Poetry), in Does It Have Pockets: "Dia de los Muertos," "Keep a Black Dress Handy," "Bela Lugosi is Buried Here and So Is Sharon Tate," and "Performance Art, Venice Beach.”&�Բ�����;

Lucy Faye Rosenthal, MFA '22 (Fiction), published a short story, "," about a joint birthday party gone wrong, in Joyland.

Rowena Leong Singer, MFA '16 (Fiction), published a short story on reality, delusions, and strange bedfellows titled "Mister Birdcage," in the 50th Anniversary Spring/Summer 2024 Issue of .

Aigner Loren Wilson, MFA candidate in Fiction, of Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice, in Lightspeed Magazine.

Puloma Ghosh, MFA '20 (Fiction), published a story, “Lemon Boy,” in the first-ever short story collection/literary magazine published by Book of the Month (). The story is also forthcoming in her debut collection, .

Gail Hosking, MFA '97 (Nonfiction), published a poem, "In Praise of the South China Sea," in Stone Canoe. She also published an essay, "," in Another Chicago Magazine. 

Mary Jones, MFA '10 (Fiction), also published a story, "The Next Husband Game,” in Volume 0 via .

Ariél M. Martinez, MFA '22 (Nonfiction), wrote a history of the thong, "," for Feeld's latest installment of "Pleasures."

Siobhan McKenna, MFA candidate in nonfiction,  was awarded Honorable Mention for the Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction for her essay, "Officium.” Part of the , the Nonfiction prize was judged by Edgar Gomez. The essay will be published in the Spring 2024 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review.

George Michelsen Foy, MFA '98 (Fiction), published a new novel, (Guernica Editions), on May 1. 

Nina Peláez, MFA '24 (Poetry), has been selected as a . Now in its 20th season, the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program matches emerging writers with published authors to work toward the mentees' writing goals. Nina will be working with the poet Millicent Borges Accardi. 

Diana Ruzova, MFA '23 (Nonfiction), published a flash essay, "," in the latest issue of Brevity. Her essay "," was published in Los Angeles Times Image magazine, both print and online. Diana has also been awarded a Peter Taylor Fellowship for the . She will be Dinty W. Moore's teaching assistant during his residential generative nonfiction workshop.

Mirande Bissell, MFA ’19 (Poetry), was chosen by Alison Joseph as the winner of the for her poem, "Incomplete Quadriplegia.”&�Բ�����; The poem will appear in the current issue of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.

Kerri Bowen (MFA candidate in Poetry), published a prose poem, "First and Last," in the Spring 2024 issue of .

Amber Caron, MFA ’16 (Fiction), for her story, “Didi.” The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Amor Towles and Jenny Minton Quigley, will be published in September by Vintage Books.

Steven Matthew Constantine, MFA '14 (Fiction)'s book, A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind, co-authored with Ann Wolbert Burgess, has been . The docuseries will be released on Hulu and Hulu On Disney+ on June 13, 2024.

Jessica Danger, MFA '16 (Fiction), sold her memoir, No Heroic Measures: A Memoir, to the . It will be published in Spring 2026.

Natasha Driscoll, MFA '24 (Fiction), has been selected as a grant through The de Groot Foundation, with her project "High Yellow."

Tori Malcangio, MFA ’14 (Fiction), won first place in the with her story, "Invasive Species.”

Alysse Kathleen McCanna, MFA '15 (Poetry), published her first full-length collection of poetry, , on April 8 via Black Lawrence Press.

Amy Raasch, MFA '24 (Poetry), interviewed for Los Angeles Times Image. She is also a 2024 with her poetry manuscript, “Why I Am Not a Gravedigger.”&�Բ�����;

Robin Reif, MFA '23 (Nonfiction), published a short story, "," in Ayin Press, selected and edited by Moriel Rothman-Zecher, MFA '23. Reif's essay, "," was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2023. 

Lindsay Ryan, MFA ’21 (Nonfiction), published an op-ed, “,” in The New York Times.

MJ Tuttle (our own Mattie Brown, MFA candidate in Fiction) published a story, "," which was selected as one of three editors' choice selections for the CRAFT 2023 Flash Prose Prize, guest judged by Kathy Fish. 

Logan Beitmen, MFA '22 (Fiction), interviewed former faculty member Lynne Sharon Schwartz about her new novel, My Life at the Wheel, for . 

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA '24 (Fiction), has been awarded a artist residency, where she will work on the novel that she started at BWS.The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts supports established and emerging writers, visual artists and composers by providing working and living environments that allow uninterrupted time for work, reflection and creative growth.

Mika Conradie, MFA Candidate in Fiction, published in the 25th anniversary edition of NOON, edited by Diane Williams. 

Jean Marie Hackett, MFA '24 (Fiction) has published a piece of short fiction, "," in Passages North.

Edmée Lepercq, MFA '23 (Nonfiction), has won the 2024 . She will work with Senior Editor Katharine Weber on her manuscript in progress, titled 'Germination Protocol', over a period of four months.

Natalie Mislang Mann, MFA '21 (Nonfiction), has been selected as a New Literary Project . Jack Hazard Fellows are fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir writers who teach full time in an accredited high school in the United States. We provide a $5,000 award that enables these creative writers who teach to focus on their writing for a summer.

Duncan Murrell, MFA '17 (Fiction), published a feature on the future of tobacco, "," in The New Republic. 

Felicia A. Rivers, MFA '23 (Fiction), published  in Menagerie Magazine. "Tagger Down" is an excerpt from a novel of linked stories that explores the lives of artists as they thrive, fall, live, and die in the studios, galleries, and streets of Philadelphia.

Ashley Rubell, MFA Candidate in Nonfiction,  about her latest book, Fruit of the Dead, for Write or Die Magazine.

Rowena Leong Singer, MFA '16 (Fiction) has been named the 2024 Poet & Author Fellowship recipient at the (MVICM). MVICM focuses on helping writers generate new work and develop existing projects. The award is given on the basis of a manuscript, judged blind. Rowena submitted an excerpt from her novel, ALL MANNER OF BEASTS.

Jennifer Solheim, MFA '18 (Fiction), published a short story, "," in MQR: Mix Tape. 

Nico Amador, MFA ’22 (Poetry), has been selected as the . 

Liz Arnold, MFA ’11 (Nonfiction), was selected as a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA from The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Logan Beitmen, MFA ’22 (Fiction), , for INTERLOCUTOR Magazine.

Gail Hosking, MFA '97 (Nonfiction), published a new poetry collection, , on February 27 via Main Street Rag Press.

Jenn Scheck-Kahn, MFA '08 (Fiction), published a personal essay about belief and belonging, "" in Pangyrus. 

Becca J.R. Lachman, MFA '11 (Poetry), published a lyric poem in Hunger Mountain, "," from her fourth collection of poems in progress. 

Lisa Johnson Mitchell, MFA '18 (Fiction), published her new story collection, , via Finishing Line Press.

Brooke Middlebrook, MFA candidate (Nonfiction), published a piece of flash nonfiction, “” in Hunger Mountain. 

Gwendolyn Paradice, MFA ’16 (Nonfiction), has been from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA ’24 (Fiction), published a short story, “Wormhole,” and was interviewed in . 

Susan Lynn Dines, MFA ’22 (Poetry), won the 2023 University of contest (Adult, non-alumni), the theme was “together.”&�Բ�����;

Erika Nichols-Frazer, MFA ’19 (Fiction), published a new essay, "” in OC87 Recovery Diaries.

Sarah Fuss Kessler, MFA ’13 (Fiction), published a reported personal essay, “” in VQR. This essay was developed from a few memoir chapters in her �����Ź��� Writing Seminars thesis, and studies how the cultural idea of cults interfered with her understanding of a year she spent in a Los Angeles mediation group that ended badly.

Ann Leamon, MFA ’08 (Poetry), published by Christian Wiman, for The Art Fuse. She also reviewed Departures from Rilke by Steven Cramer, for the . Ann is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle. 

Guillermo Rebollo Gil, MFA ’23 (Poetry), discussing poems by William Carlos Williams, Jason Olsen and �����Ź��� Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith, for On the Seawall. 

Kristie Ann Redfield, MFA ’23 (Fiction), published a short story, “,” in New Delta Review. 

Jefferey Spivey, dual-genre (Fiction + Poetry) candidate, published his debut collection, , on January 9 via Texas Tech University Press. This collection won the 2023 Iron Horse Prize.

Sasha Wade, MFA ’20 (Poetry), is the winner of Baltimore Review's 2024 Winter Prose Poem Contest with her piece, “.”

Natalie Warther, MFA ’21 (Fiction + Poetry), published a short story, “,” in Wigleaf. This story has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

Jesper Andreasson MFA '12 interviewed J. Mae Barizo MFA '12 for .

Jen Christensen MFA '23 has ranked #1 on the Muck Rack list of Top . 

Mika Conradie (MFA candidate) has published an ekphrastic essay, "," that reads the post-colonial palm tree through the work of four artists, in 2HB - the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow's journal for experimental writing.

Arlene DeMaris (MFA candidate) has published , “Anger” and “Book of Questions” in Tupelo Quarterly (TQ31). 

Molia Dumbleton MFA '21 has for her short story collection, tentatively titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 

Julia Juster (MFA candidate) has been named Managing Editor of . The quarterly journal runs out of Arrowsmith Press, which was founded in 2006 by former faculty Askold Melnyczuk.

Kevin Koczwara MFA '22 profiled the , Michael “Bully Boy” Smith, for Esquire.

Edmée Lepercq MFA '23 essay on women’s voices, Chicanes, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Matt W. Miller, an MFA student in poetry, had a poem ("Far Away") for the Academy of American Poets. 

Aaron J. Muller MFA ‘23 has published a new short story, “," in Waccamaw.

Jessica Ogilvie MFA '23 , a member of the Russian protest/art collective Pussy Riot, following their show in L.A., for LA Public Press.

Mark Prior, an MFA student in fiction, published an essay about a supernatural experience that started in his childhood in Brazil, "," in Blank Spaces.

Robin Reif MFA '23 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize with her piece, "Someone," published in . Another essay, "To The Woman Whose Body I Washed," was named a Notable Essay for the Best American Essays 2023 collection. This essay originally appeared in . 

Jason Sebastian Russo, an MFA student in fiction and poetry, has been selected to be the twelfth Residential Teaching Fellow at �����Ź��� Writing Seminars. 

Nikki Volpicelli (MFA candidate) for The Masters Review Summer Short Story Award for New Writers with her story, "Ugly Way Out," judged by Jai Chakrabarti.

Willa Carroll MFA ’11 published her new poetry collection, , via Split Rock Press. 

Julia Juster (MFA candidate) has been named Managing Editor of Arrowsmith Journal. The quarterly journal runs out of Arrowsmith Press, which was founded in 2006 by former �����Ź��� faculty Askold Melnyczuk. Julia will be responsible for compiling and editing the journal, which publishes original fiction, poetry, literary criticism, reviews, columns, and essays.

Katherine Lazarus MFA '19 wrote an article, "," for Burlington Writer's Workshop, about participating in a creative writing workshops, pulling from her experience at the �����Ź��� MFA program for inspiration.

Ann Leamon MFA '08 reviewed Lyudmyla Khersonska’s poetry collection, , for Heavy Feather Review. 

Edmée Lepercq MFA '23 wrote a review of the first museum exhibition celebrating the art and activism of women in Britain from 1970 to 1990, "These British Feminist Artists of the 1970s Are Getting Their Due at the Tate," for Artsy. 

Gracia Mwamba (MFA candidate) published their debut chapbook (and winner of the Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize), , via Foglifter Press on October 30. They also have won the . The Evaristo Prize for African Poetry is an awarded to ten poems written by an African poet. 

Suleika Jaouad MFA '20 of her Brooklyn, NY home for Architectural Digest. 

Guillermo Rebollo Gil MFA '23 has published "" and seven other poems in Asphalte Magazine. He also published a new essay, "'" in Annulet: A Journal of Poetics.

Andrew Reiner MFA '03 published an op-ed, "," on the cover of Boston Globe's Ideas section. 

Jason Sebastian Russo (MFA candidate) has published a micro-fiction piece, "Meanwhile," in Versification's latest issue. He also on the new Pete International Airport LP, recently released by Little Cloud Records.

Rowena Leong Singer MFA '16 was selected as a , an annual festival that focuses on emerging Asian Pacific American artists. Her novel excerpt, All Manner of Beasts, addresses the showcase theme of "Seeking Home," which considers "the ideas of land, place, migration, and the legacies of imperialism and displacement, reflecting the ways in which we conceive of home and the impermanence therein."

Lindsay Ryan MFA '21 published an essay, "" in The Atlantic.

Richard Brait MFA '22 has published “,” a 20 page excerpt from The Margaret and Sam Poems, in the Fall 2023 issue of The Queen’s Quarterly. This is the second excerpt from The Margaret and Sam Poems to appear in this publication. Further excerpts are scheduled for the Spring 2024 and Fall 2024 issues.

Cristina Olivetti (Spencer) MFA '19 has published a piece, "," in ����Ô�鴡 (Issue 26). ����Ô�鴡 is a dynamic online arts space produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch’s .

Mark E. Prior (MFA candidate) published a piece of creative nonfiction, "Paradise Lost," from a memoir in progress entitled Missionary Position, for The Malahat Review.

Diana Ruzova MFA '23 published a new piece in Autofocus, "," as well as an for the Chicago Review of Books. 

Kelly Sather MFA '15 published a story collection, , via University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection won the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and is also featured on Alta Journal's in October.

Elisa Wouk Almino (MFA candidate) for Los Angeles Times of Kate Briggs' new novel, The Long Form, which reimagines how to write about love.

Matthew Zarenkiewicz (MFA candidate) published an essay, "," reviewing Joanna Wuest’s “Born This Way: Science, Citizenship and Inequality in the LGBTQ+ Movement," for The Baffler. 

Jeanne Bonner MFA '16 published an essay on the overlooked works of women Holocaust survivors, "," in The American Scholar.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar (MFA candidate) published a story, "The Monolith," in the Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women anthology, from . Chaya was also selected as a semi finalist for the 2023 Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award.

Willa Carroll MFA '11 has published in the America Being America issue of Under a Warm Green Linden, "Score for Body of Troubled Water," "Score for the Body as Chemical Bond," "Score for Bodies in Appeal," and "Score for the Body Politic." Carroll has also been selected as a a finalist for the at Ninth Letter, for three poems from her forthcoming chapbook, Demolition Suite.

Arlene DeMaris (MFA candidate) published her poem, "," in Rust & Moth.

Ellen Ann Fentress MFA '08 published her memoir, , from University Press of Mississippi.

Tod Goldberg MFA '09 published the thrilling conclusion to the Gangsterland trilogy, Gangsters Don't Die, from .

JoeAnn Hart MFA '00 published her new collection of short stories, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, from . The collection was the winner of the 2022 Hudson Prize.

Jess Joho (MFA candidate) just published an essay, "," on Los Angeles Times.

Matt W. Miller (MFA candidate) has published a new poem, "," in Five Points.

David Ryan MFA '99 has a short story featured in  anthology of short stories, judged by Jenny Minton Quigley and Lauren Groff. 

Larissa Pham MFA '23 about how the pandemic changed our relationship to the natural world, distrusting beauty, the challenges of writing about climate change, and her new book, The Light Room, for The Nation.

Kyanna Sutton MFA '19 published a review of "," for The Lighthouse | Black Girl Projects. 

Amber Wheeler Bacon MFA '18 has published a new short story, "Small Pleasures" in the latest issue of . 

Chaya Bhuvaneswar (MFA candidate) published a very well-received story, "" in The Sun Magazine. Her novella, Other Girls, has also been selected as a finalist.

Carrie Cooperider MFA '18 published a short story, "," in 3:AM Magazine.

Arlene DeMaris (MFA candidate) published her poem, "Mother Love," in the Summer/Fall issue of . Her poem, "Turkeys," has also won the from the Connecticut Poetry Society.

Susan Dines MFA '22 published a new poem, "The Fugitive’s Wife When Expecting the Feds," in 2023.

Rachel Greenley MFA '23 has published an essay on what a high school with an H bomb for a mascot and a boy from Cleveland with the atomic disease have in common, "," in Orion Magazine. This essay was also selected as #1 on the list of the .

Kevin Koczwara MFA '22 published an interview and essay, "," in Esquire, as well as an about love and his new book, Love is Under Attack By Silicon Valley. He has also published a new story, "," in Welcome to Hell World. 

Elizabeth Knapp MFA '00 published a poem, "," in the current issue of The Sun Magazine.

Edmée Lepercq MFA '23 published an essay, "" on unlearning assumptions regarding food and family, for Orion. 

Syrah Linsley (MFA candidate) has been selected as a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for her essay, "hello, brightness." A selection from her lyric memoir-in-essays, The Inner Elsewhere, has also just been longlisted for the international . 

Joanne Nelson MFA '14 published her second book,  (Vine Leaves Press).

Mary Louise Penaz MFA '07 will publish a poem, "Pollen: North Carolina," in the 2023 eEdition of . 

Robin Reif MFA '23 was featured in , a three-part series featuring the winners of the Missouri Review’s 2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize.

Diana Ruzova MFA '23 has published an essay, "" in Flaunt Magazine. She has also published an interview with Ruth Madievsky for .

Stephanie Sellars MFA '22 published a humor essay satirizing what qualifies an artist to receive a grant, "," in Defenestration.

Leah Souffrant MFA '03 published a cross-genre book,  Threads woven from history, memory, and the body (Unbound Edition Press). Entanglements intersects personal narrative, poetry, and critical theory to examine how subjective experience reshapes and gives meaning to everyday events.

Alison Turner MFA '13 published her short story collection,  (Torrey House Press). 

John West MFA '18 was , Lessons and Carols, by faculty member Hugh Ryan MFA '09, for Electric Literature.

Claressinka Anderson’s (MFA ’22) poems “This is Not the Mouth” and “The Blades” in the Bear Review 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize judged by Traci Brimhall. She spoke to the Bear Review’s editor Marcus Myers about her process, poetics, and some of the wisdom she gained from her teachers at �����Ź���. She has also just published an essay, "Two Things Touching," on the erotics of poetry in the

Richard Brait's (MFA '22) poem, “,” has placed second in the Dr. William Henry Drummond poetry contest; two additional poems, “Shoe Cove” and “Georgian Bay” were selected as Judge’s Choices. All three poems appear in the contest anthology. The Dr. William Henry Drummond National Poetry Contest was founded in Cobalt in 1970. It is the oldest non-governmental national poetry contest in Canada.

Rachel Elam's (MFA candidate) story, "Seven Nights of Shiva" has been selected as one of Symphony Space in New York’s two runners-up in this year's , selected by Anthony Doerr.

Danuta Hinc (MFA '16) published her new novel, , via Plamen Press on July 4.

Natalie Mislang Mann (MFA '21) has published her essay, "Too Loud to Sleep," in a new anthology, , from University of West Virginia Press. 

Guillermo Rebollo Gil's (MFA '23 and June '23 Alumni Fellow) poetry manuscript, Azucenas, made it to the finalist round in the Louise Bogan Award Competition

Diana Ruzova (MFA '23) published a , Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, for Full Stop Magazine. She has also published an in Los Angeles for LAist. 

Jennifer L. Shaw (MFA '23) is is featured in an , the subjects of her book, Exist Otherwise: the Life and Works of Claude Cahun (), in BBC Radio 4’s History’s Secret Heroes with Helena Bonham Carter.

Nico Amador MFA '22 published a review, ("") of Gary Soto's poetry collection, Elements of San Joaquin, in West Branch. He also published an essay on queer temporality in trans poetics, "," in Fugue Journal. 

Jeanne Bonner MFA '16 published a travel essay "" about visiting tiny public memories in Italy that honor victims of the Nazis, on PBS's Next Avenue. 

Morgan English (MFA candidate) contributed a review of by Randall Mann (poetry faculty), for On The Seawall. 

Jenea Havener (MFA candidate) was named a finalist in Narrative Magazine’s Winter 2023 Story Contest, for her short story, "." 

Etan Kerr-Finell (MFA candidate) has published a critical essay, "," on Michael Theune's Structure and Surprise blog.

Edmée Lepercq (MFA candidate)  of Tanoa Sasraku's exhibition, Liths, in Artforum. 

Syrah Linsley (MFA candidate) published flash lyric essay, ",”&�Բ�����;����&�Բ�����;Hippocampus Magazine. "Bird Bouquet" is an excerpt from her manuscript.

Lisa Johnson Mitchell MFA '18 published a flash fiction story, "," in UK-based lit mag, Fictive Dream.

Mara Naselli MFA '13 published a timeless interview with nonfiction faculty, Eula Biss, for . 

Diana Ruzova MFA '23 for Full Stop about her forthcoming memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House). 

Kate Sweeney (MFA candidate) is the winner of the from Palette Poetry. In January, for one week only, submissions were open for poems that were ekphrastic in some way and that engaged dynamically with a work of art. 

Jesper Andreasson MFA '12 has just published  between Andreasson and J. Mae Barizo MFA '13, in Tupelo Quarterly. The project features poems by Jesper and J. Mae, and the Swedish translations of each work.

Amber Wheeler Bacon MFA '18 has published a new short story, "," in which a mother encounters an alligator and a stranger on a walk with her young children in the marsh, for Cutleaf. 

Judith Hertog MFA '10 has a short essay published in Forward for Holocaust Memorial Day, "."

Jenn Scheck-Kahn MFA '08 published a personal essay, "," in Mount Hope Magazine. The piece is available to read (or listen to) online, and will be included the next print edition.

Ann Leamon MFA '08 has published review of a poetry collection, "," in Tupelo Quarterly. She also has a new piece of flash non-fiction, "" published in River Teeth.

Edmée Lepercq (MFA student) contributed several texts on visual artists selected in Phaidon's forthcoming anthology,

Lisa Johnson Mitchell MFA '18 was about being a finalist for the 2022 London Independent Story Prize. The story, "," is now available to read online.

Larissa Pham MFA '23 created a stellar playlist to accompany her stroll through The Museum of Modern Art, "." 

Mickey Revenaugh MFA '17 has a new flash piece of nonfiction, "," on Fauxmoir. This piece was created during a #5amwritersclub session. 

Jason Russo (MFA student) published a short story, "," in the latest issue of Southwest Review.

Sarah Zoric (MFA student and tenth Residential Teaching Fellow) published a short story, "," on Hobart.

Jasmin Attia MFA '21 published an essay, "," on LitHub.

Amber Wheeler Bacon MFA '18 published a short story, "," in Ecotone Magazine (The Ocean Issue). 

Miriam Camitta MFA '16 published an essay, "Can't Elope," in 

Katie Coleman MFA ’20 published a short story, “,” in SmokeLong Quarterly. 

Susan Dines MFA '22 has four new poems in the of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

Jean Marie Hackett (MFA student) has published a new piece of flash fiction, "," in the March issue of Five on the Fifth.

Nancy Jainchill  MFA'13 published an essay, "," in Evergreen Review.

Ann Leamon MFA '08 has a new piece of flash nonfiction, “,” in the current issue of River Teeth. 

Edmée Lepercq (MFA student) published on Mark Doty's book, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, for the Ploughshares blog.

Amy Lyons MFA '19 published a short story, "," on Rejection Letters.

Lisa Johnson Mitchell MFA '18 has a new story, "Aloeliscious," in the March issue of the .

Andrew Quintana MFA '23 wrote a review of the new adaptation of , for Vanity Fair.

Guillermo Rebollo-Gil MFA '23 translated a poem, "THE END TIMES / LOS ÚLTIMOS TIEMPOS" by fellow Puerto Rican poet Cindy Jimenez Vera, and it has been selected for inclusion in the .

Stacey Resnikoff MFA '21 has a new short story, "," in the latest issue of Joyland.

Diana Ruzova MFA '23 published an essay, "Dinner Cruise," in Peach Magazine, and also featured in the Memoir Monday newsletter.

Stephanie Sellars MFA '22 published an essay, "" about a strange romance and an odd job in Hobart Pulp's "Fucked Up Modern Love Essays." 

Claudia M Stanek MFA '07 published a poem, "," on Ekstasis.

Mark Wallace MFA '20 , and about potential, silence, and embarrassing moments at Coney Island, for March Fadness.

Beth Weinstock MFA '19 published a poem, "," in Spoon River Poetry Review. 

Nico Amador MFA '22 published , "My Dreams are Commands (Diary Cento #3)," "What Could Destroy You," and "Geolocation reveals that the seagull rides a garbage truck," in The Broadkill Review.

Emily Blackshear (MFA candidate) wrote of the late Robert D. Richardson's final book, Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives, for The Brooklyn Rail. 

Jeanne Bonner MFA '16 published the translation of the short story, "," by Edith Bruck, in Hunger Mountain. This story also won the Hunger Mountain Translation Prize in 2022.

Amy Bowers MFA '21 published an essay, "," in Washington Square Review.

Evan Brooke MFA '20 wrote about enduring friendship and vulnerability for Cutleaf with her essay, "."

Jen Christensen MFA '23 wrote an inspiring piece on and commitment to social justice for CNN.

Maddie Cowan's (MFA candidate) short story, "," won the Short Story Contest on Humans of the World.

MaxieJane Frazier MFA '20 published "," an excerpt from her memoir manuscript, in . 

Anna Gazmarian MFA '20 published an essay, in The Sun Magazine.

Jenea Havener (MFA candidate) published a story, "," on Narrative Magazine; "Bolton" is also featured as Story of the Week.

Michelle Koufopoulos MFA '22 published "" a flash essay about snail mating rituals, misfiring brains, and mycelium as the "living seam that holds the soil together," in Brevity. 

Kevin Koczwara MFA '22 reviewed the Netflix adaptation of , for Esquire. And for Boston Globe he wrote, "" 

Aaron J. Muller MFA '23 has published a short story, “," on Prose Online. Also stylized as prose.onl, Prose Online is a literary journal committed to publishing work made accessible to all. 

Colleen Olle MFA '15 published a short story, "," in Unfortunately Literary Magazine. 

Larissa Pham MFA '23 wrote about "" for LitHub's When I’m Not Writing, a Series �����Ź��� Writers and Their Hobbies. 

Andrew Reiner MFA '02 , "From ghosting to quiet quitting, we’re avoiding conflict. That’s not healthy," for THINK. THINK is NBC News' home for op-eds, in-depth analyses and essays about news and current events.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA '23 published a version of his , entitled "'none of it! none of it will last!': The Poetic Exclamation Point Between Irony and an Ecstatic Death-Marker" in Vol. 52/No. 1 of American Poetry Review. He also published three sonnets,  in Ayin Press' "Holy Folio."

Diana Ruzova MFA '23 wrote two articles for Oprah Daily, "," and "."

Kate Sweeney (MFA candidate) published in One Art: A Journal of Poetry.

Krysia Wazny McClain MFA ’22 reviewed Abigail Chabitnoy's latest collection, , for the Colorado Review.

Emily Ziemska MFA '08 has won Honorable Mention for her short story, "Geese and Foxes,” in the 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize by .

James Dickson (MFA '11) has published , “Safety Drill, 2022” and “Learning to Shut Up,” on Anti-Heroin Chic.

Jack El-Hai ​​​​​(MFA '09) wrote about how he discovered, wrote, and sold a strikingly distinctive magazine article to The Atlantic, "," for Medium.

Richard Brait (MFA '22) has from "The Margaret and Sam Poems," in the Winter 2022 issue of The Queen's Quarterly. 

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot (MFA '16) wrote about the majestic beauty of a beloved and fading tree, "," for The New York Times.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar (MFA candidate) has published a short story, "," in The Masters Review, with another short story ("Shock Value") forthcoming in The Sun. Her essay, "," was selected as one of Salon's "Best of 2022." Her book review for Nandita Dinesh’s novel, This Place That Place, was , as well as a mini-review of  by Alyssa Songsiridej. For Catapult, she wrote a helpful guide to "" Another piece of nonfiction, "Hurts So Good," is forthcoming in the Black Warrior Review.

Morgan English (MFA Candidate) (Bull City Press, 2022), for Heavy Feather Review.

Danuta Hinc (MFA '16) published an essay, "," in Popula. 

Craig Holt (MFA '21) published a short story, "," on Jersey Devil Press. "Fulfillment" has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Meiko Ko (MFA '22) published two works of flash fiction, "," in The Hong Kong Review (Vol. III, No. 3), and "," in Longleaf Review. "Cheongsam Woman, Still Trapped in the Forties," has also been nominated for Best Small Fictions.

Lisa Johnson Mitchell (MFA '18) is a Finalist in the competition for her short story, "Reunion." 

Elisabetta La Cava (MFA candidate) has won second place in the 's Poetry prize category for her poem, "We Had Peace." She has also published an essay about the process of becoming a U.S. Citizen, "" in Another Chicago Magazine.

Aaron Muller (MFA candidate) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his short story, "," published in Cold Signal (Issue One).

Michelle Oppenheimer's (MFA '13) poem, "" published on Literary Mama, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Stephen Page (MFA '08) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem, “One Horn," published in .

Stacey Resnikoff (MFA '21) published a short story from her thesis, “," for Joyland Magazine.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher (MFA candidate) wrote about "," for LitHub.

Jason Russo (MFA '25) has published poems in three different journals this month. "" has been published by The Schuylkill Valley Journal, on Harpy Hybrid Review, and "" on Forever Magazine.

Diana Ruzova (MFA candidate) wrote about “,” for the LA Times.

Liesl Schwabe (MFA '05) has an essay, "," in the latest issue (Vol. 21.3) in Five Points.

Kate Sweeney (MFA candidate) , "Mile Measurement Ends Here," and "The day the EHT Telescope discovers a black hole sits at the heart of our universe," on Northwest Review.

Anamyn Turowski (MFA '19) published a short story, "" in J Journal. "Orbiting Jupiter" has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Nikki Volpicelli (MFA Candidate) has published a short story, "," on Expat Press. 

Jeanne Bonner (MFA ‘16) wrote about how, “,” for CNN’s Style section. 

Miriam Camitta (MFA '16) published an essay, "Necessary for Life,” in 24:2 (Fall 2022, print only). 

Amber Caron ( MFA '16) published her short story "What the Birds Knew" in .

Morgan English (MFA candidate) published two poems, "Wild Herring" and "Currency," in 's Fall print issue. 

Rachel Greenley (MFA candidate) published an Opinion Guest Essay about her experience working as a seasonal warehouse worker of an online superstore, "Scenes From the Front Lines of Our Addiction to Fast Fashion," for .

Jean Marie Hackett (MFA candidate) has published “,” a flash fiction piece, in Five on the Fifth. 

Edmée Lepercq (MFA candidate) reviewed Mathieu Lindon's memoir, 'Hervelino' (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman), for the . 

Aaron J. Muller (MFA candidate) published a short story, “The Heart In The House,” in Issue One of

Erika Nichols-Frazer (MFA '19) in the fall issue of Red Fern Review: "Why I speak to trees," "you are smaller than you appear," "Babushkas of Chernobyl," "Digging for Cassava," and "When you sleep." Nichols-Frazer’s new memoir, Feed Me, will be published on December 12, 2022, by Casper Press.

Guillermo Rebollo Gil (MFA candidate) published the poem "" in Autofocus.

Claire Salinda (MFA Candidate) published , "Baja California, 1995" and "I Find Myself Riding the Subway" in G*Mob. 

Hayden Saunier (MFA ‘05) published a poem, “,” in ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Her poem “,” published in River Heron Review, has been nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize.

Catherine M. Schuster (MFA candidate) published a short piece, "" in Flash Fiction Magazine. 

Jane Stringham (MFA candidate) published her critical essay, ",’" in Volume 14 of Plath Profiles, which publishes essays, poetry, art, and myriad studies of Plath's work.