Tiffany Trent
photo by Sarah Lynch-Walker
Tiffany's Hallowmere fantasy series is out this year. The novels have been described as "a dark, edgy, historical fantasy series that teens won't be able to put down."
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The first novel in the Hallowmere series, In the Serpent's Coils, has garnered excellent critical attention, and was nominated for the Cybil Award and the Andre Norton Award, as well as being a BookSense Pick. This spring, Tiffany is teaching our senior-level creative writing course, Fiction for Young People. |
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Fred D'Aguiar, Whitbread Prize winning novelist and accomplished poet, has a poem in the March 17 issue of The New Yorker.
photo by Richard Mallory Allnutt
Fred teaches in the MFA Program. His many books include An English Sampler: New and Selected Poems.
Matthew Vollmer has placed his first book, the short story collection Future Missionaries of America, with the highly-regarded independent publishing house, McAdam Cage. It's scheduled for publication in October 2008. Stories in the collection have appeared in Paris Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Portland Review, Fugue, Gulf Coast, and The Colorado Review. Matthew is teaching our sophomore-level fiction workshop. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Erika Meitner has two poems forthcoming on nextbook.org: http://www.nextbook.org, as well as a meditation on Jewish Cool in Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility: http://www.shma.com/reflecting_cool.phtml, and an essay on Rita Dove coming out in Efforts and Affections: Women Poets on Mentorship, from University of Iowa Press in May 2008. Erica teaches in the MFA Program.
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Matthew Vollmer
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Unwavering, Poems by Gyorgyi Voros
Gyorgyi Voros
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About Unwavering: The poems in Gyorgyi Voros's Unwavering unfurl in the interstices between nature and culture, probing the human relationship to nonhuman nature as we live it now at the start of the twenty-first century. Of these poems, John Ashbery writes: "The music of Voros's poetry is, in Conrad Aiken's words, 'more than music'. It's the motion of life and lots of things in it thinking, changing one s mind, forgetting and remembering." Ann Lauterbach writes that "Voros demonstrates the gorgeous surfeit of the natural world. In sight and sound, the particulars of habitat come to life, almost breaking the confines of language, reaching for, but never quite attaining, the transcendent." |
Gyorgyi teaches undergraduate literature and creative writing courses, and conducts a creative writing practicum for MFA students.
Katie Fallon's creative nonfiction essay "Lost" appears in the autumn 2007 issue of The Fourth River. The editors have nominated "Lost" for a Pushcart Prize and featured it on the journal's website: http://fourthriver.chatham.edu
"Goose," a short nonfiction piece by Katie, appears in the Fall/Winter 2007 "Wildness" issue of Now & Then: http://www.etsu.edu/cass/Now andThen.
Katie teaches our sophomore-level nonfiction creative writing course.
Robert Walker (2010 MFA) recently placed four poems with Ashe’: the journal of experimental spirituality. His poem "Florida" was selected for publication in the anthology Queer Collection: Prose & Poetry 2008 (due out this summer for Fabulist Flash Publishing). He'll be reading as the featured poet at Suspect Thoughts bookstore in Cleveland on March 15, and he’ll be part of the reading series at Saints & Sinners Literary Festival this May in New Orleans.
Tim Lockridge (2008 MFA) has two poems in Issue # 1 of Anti (http://anti-poetry.com), as well as the most recent issue of The Pedestal Magazine (http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com), and in the spring 2008 issue of Redivider. Erika Meitner has poems in the same issue.
Nick Kocz's (2009 MFA) Conjunctions story, "Acquiesence" is online at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/kocz07.htm. Conjunctions has long been one of the premier publications for innovative fiction.
The New River, the MFA Program's student-edited online journal of digital writing and art, has been selected by the Electronic Literature Organization for inclusion in the Library of Congress's Internet Archive Project. The Library of Congress will now provide a link to New River and periodically "crawl" our site to stay updated. The purpose of the project is to archive significant sites for future generations. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Carrie Meadow's (2009 MFA) story, "Good Girl," will appear in the Spring 2008 issue of Fifth Wednesday: http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com |
The New River
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Acolytes
University Distinguished Professor of English, Nikki Giovanni, won an NAACP Image Award in the Literature Category for her collection, Acolytes: Poems; this was Giovanni's fourth Image Award in the 39 years since the awards were established. The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice. The awards recognize achievement in motion pictures, television, recordings, and literature. Other winners this year included Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry, Alicia Keys, and Janet Jackson. Giovanni received the award in Los Angeles on February 14. |
Nikki Giovanni
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