Creative Writing Community

News and Events

Erika Meitner

Erika Meitner

Erika teaches in the MFA Program

Erika Meitner's newest collection of poems, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, is just out from Anhinga Press. Her previous collection, Ideal Cities, winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series is the subject of a recent review by critic Stephen Burt in The Boston Review. The title of Burt's review is "Our Poems, Ourselves: Does Autobiography Make Good Poetry." In Erika's case, he comes to the conclusion that it does.

 

Makeshift  . . .
Chris Prewitt (MFA 2013) has three poems in the current issue of Still. Jeremy Griffin's (MFA 2009) first book of short stories, A Last Resort for Desperate People, will be published in 2011 by Stephen F. Austin University Press. He is currently an Instructor at VMI.

Jeff Mann

Jeff Mann

Jeff teaches in the MFA Program

 

Jeff Mann's most recent collection of poetry, Ash, will be out in March 2011 with Rebel Satori Press. His previous book, a collection of essays titled Binding the God, came out last year, with Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press.

Jeff's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah.

Ash

 

 

 

Raina Fields (MFA 2012) has poems forthcoming or published in recent issues of San Pedro River Review,Breadcrumb Scabs, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Callaloo, PANK, and Write from Wrong.

Katherine Sullivan (MFA 2011) has started a literary journal with Greg Sherl, called Vinyl. Her newest project is YesYes Books of which she is founder and publisher. Her chapbook, Bodies in Pieces, was a semifinalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press.

Weston Cutter

Weston Cutter

Weston is currently an assistant professor at The University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Weston Cutter (MFA 2009) has published his first book, a collection of short stories titled You'd Be A Stranger, Too, with Blaze/Vox Books.

"Each radiant story makes its strange sound in a way that is entirely Cutter: passionate, searching, and inspired."

--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation and Minor Robberies.

You'd Be . . .

 

Carrie Meadows (MFA 2009) has a poem in a recent issue of Night Train.

Nick Kocz's (MFA 2009) story "Dining By Candlelight" was published in a recent issue of Pank.

Ed Falco

Ed Falco

 

Ed teaches in the MFA Program.

 

Ed's fourth collection of short stories, Burning Man, has just been published by SMU Press.

“Burning Man is a smart, wicked, funny, sad collection of stories from one of our wisest writers.”

--Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding.

 

Burning Man