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Addington, Carrie (MFA, 2007)

Carrie is the owner of Addington Writers where she works with various clients, including the American Poetry Museum providing writing and communications services. She also works as National Advertising Director for AutoExec magazine. Her poetry has been published by Triplopia and she was the recipient of the 2006 Virginia Downs poetry award. She is the 2007 winner of the American Literary Review's Poetry Prize and a 2007 Pushcart nominee. Her poems are forthcoming in American Literary Review and Margie, where she was a 2007 Editor's Choice finalist.

Andrews, Betsy (MFA, 1997)

Betsy is the author of three poetry collections She-Devil, In Trouble, and New Jersey, winner of the Brittingham Prize in poetry.

Barker, Brian (MFA, 1999)

Brian is the author of The Animal Gospels and winner of the 2004 Tupelo Press Editors Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Indiana Review, Sou'wester, Pleiades, and River Styx. He is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and currently works as the Assistant Director of the Center for the Literary Arts at the University of Missouri and as managing editor of the journal, Center.

Brodeur, Brian (MFA, 2005)

Brian has published recent work in Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, New Orleans Review, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, and the anthology, Best New Poets 2005. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. His book-length manuscript was a finalist for the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize and his poems have been translated into Spanish and Bosnian. Other Lattitudes won the Akron Poetry Prize and was published in October of 2008.

About Brian Brodier's poetry Stephen Dunn writes, "Brodeur's world is a world of layers and shadings. His diction is limpid and precise, his ear a fine-tuned instrument for measuring nuance...I'm pleased to have found such poems, and such a talent."

Brunk, Juanita (MFA, 1985)

Juanita has published several poems in literary journals, including The American Review and Passages North. She won the Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin and The Great Lakes Poetry Award for her first collection of poem, Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface. Juanita was also the first recipient of the Creative Writing Fellowship at the Institute of Creative Writing at Wisconsin.

Cobb, Allison (MFA, 1997)

Allison, along with other MFA alumni from 1997 and 1998, edit Pom2, a journal of poetic polylogue based in Brooklyn, NY.

Coleman, Jennifer (MFA, 1997)

Jennifer, along with Allison Cobb and other MFA alumni from 1997 and 1998, edit Pom2, a journal or poetic polylogue based in Brooklyn, NY.

Craver, Mark (MFA, 1984)

Mark published his poems in over a dozen literary journals as well as produced three books of poems: The Problem of Grace, Seven Crowns for White Lady of the Other World and Blood Poems, and They Come for What You Love which was nominated for the Virginia's librarys' Center for the Book Award in 1998. His last book was published posthumously.

The Mark Craver Poetry Award was created in honor of Mark. Mark was also an MA alum as well as a popular adjunct instructor here at Mason and a high school teacher in the northern VA area until his death in 2004. The award is given out annually to a deserving student from the Mason community.

Deulen, Danielle (MFA, 2005)

Danielle is a poet and essayist, as well as a PhD candidate in English at the University of Utah. Her collecion of poems, Lovely Asunder, recently won the Arkansas Poetry Prize and will be published in spring 2011 (University of Arkansas Press). The Riots, a collection of essays, won the AWP prize in Creative Nonfiction judged by Luis Urrea. The collection will be published with the University of Georgia Press. Danielle received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry prize three times. She was also the recipient of a Virginia Center for the Arts fellowship and a nominee for the Pushcart prize. Danielle's poems and nonfiction essays have appeared in various journals and her poems were included in Best New Poets 2009.

Donnelly, Jean (MFA, 1993)

Jean's volume of poetry, Anthem, won the National Poetry Series in 2000. While at Mason, Jean cofounded the journal So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art

Dunham, Rebecca (MFA, 2001)

Rebecca won the 2006 T.S. Eliot prize from Truman State University Press, which published her first book of poems, The Miniature Room. She earned her PhD from the Universityof Missouri-Columbia.

Epes, W. Perry (MFA, 1993)

W. Perry Epes is the author of the debut poetry collection, Nothing Happened. His poems have appeared in Pheobe, Negative Capability, GW Forum, and Innisfree. He has taught in boarding schools for many years are coordinates the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition for The Word Works.

Foust, Graham (MFA, 1996)

Graham published two books of poems in 2003: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions) and Leave the Room to Itself (Ashata Press), which won the 2003 Sawtooth Prize. In 2007, Graham's book of poetry, Chicago, was published (Flood Editions).

Fuller, Heather (MFA, 1996)

Heather's books of poetry include Perhaps This is a Rescue Fantasy (2007) Beggar (1998), Eyeshot (1999). Heather's essays and poems have also appeared in numerous journals.

Hall, Joe (MFA, 2008)

Joe Hall is the author of the chapbook Post Nativity (Publishing Genius, 2012) and, with Chad Hardy, The Containter Store Vols. I & II (SpringGun, 2012). His first book of poems is a collection of poetry, Pigafetta is My Wife (Black Ocean Press, 2010). His poetry, commentary, and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, Octopus, HMTL Giant, The Colorado Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere.

Hedderd, Vance Philip (MFA, 1992)

Vance has published poems in Cape Rock, Chelsea, Folio and in various other literary journals. His essay "Sibling Rivalry" in Mourning Becomes Electra and The Little Foxes was published in Eugene O'Neill Review, and his essay "Going the Distance: Using Technologies to Promote the Writing Center on Campus in the Community" appeared in SWCA Selected Papers 1992. Vance received an Individual Artist Project Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Vanderhart, Hannah (MFA, 2010)

Hannah is currently the second-year Lannan Graduate Fellow at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she works with the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Her job involves web and community outreach in support of Lannan Readings and Talks series, whose upcoming 2011-2012 season includes visits from poets Robin Robertson, Adonis, Khlaled Mattawa, Jorie Graham, and Charles Simic. Hannah's poetry has been most recently published in Prick and Spindle, The Tipton Poetry Journal, and 1110 (UK), and she will be presenting her paper "The Order of Disorder: Susan Howe and the Postmodern Essay" at UNCG's graduate conference this September. Her website is: hannahvanderhart.com

 

Burriesci, Matt (MFA, 2002)

Matt is the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, which bestows the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States.  From 1999-2011, Mr. Burriesci served in various capacities at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), including the organization’s Executive Director.  At AWP, he helped the organization triple in size, and to develop the AWP Conference & Bookfair into one of the largest, most diverse literary conferences in North America.  His fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Black Warrior Review, Crucible, and The Beacon Street Review. Three of his plays have been professionally produced, and in 1996 he was awarded the Shattuck Award for Excellence in Playwriting.  He is a regular consultant for the Association of Academic Health Centers, where he has worked on numerous policy and advocacy documents, including Out of Order, Out of Time:  The State of the Nation’s Health Workforce.  From 1997-1999, he served as the Marketing Manager for the Tony-Award winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier.  He received his BA in English & Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, he studied Shakespeare during an Honors Seminar at Oxford University, and he received his MFA from George Mason University in 2002.

   Call, Ryan (MFA, 2008)

 

Hudgens, Dallas (MFA, 1992)

Dallas's first novel, Drive Like Hell (Scribner) was chosen as a Spring 2005 selection for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writer series and was chosen as a Booksense March 2005 pick. His second novel, The Season of Gene, was published in September 2007 (Scribner).

Laskowski, Tara (MFA, 2006)

Tara Laskowski is the senior editor for SmokeLong Quarterly, an online flash-fiction literary journal. Her short story manuscript, "Black Diamond City," won the 2010 Sante Fe Writers Project Literary Award Series. She has numerous stories pubished online and in print, and her work will be featured in two upcoming anthologies: "Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash Fiction" and a collection of Washington, DC, women's fiction to be published by Paycock Press. Tara is originally from Pennsylvania and now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, mystery writer and book reviewer Art Taylor (MFA, 2006).

Renfro, Yelizaveta P. (MFA, 2004)

Yelizaveta is the author of a collection of short stories, A Catalogue of Everything in the World, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review, Witness, Reader’s Digest, Blue Mesa Review, Parcel, Adanna, Fourth River, Bayou Magazine, Untamed Ink, So to Speak, and the anthologies A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection (OV Books, 2008) and Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There (Main Street Rag, 2010). She holds an MFA from George Mason University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. Born in the former Soviet Union, she has lived in California, Virginia, Nebraska, and Connecticut.

Maggio, Michael (MFA, 2008)

Mike Maggio is the author of Oranges From Palestine (Mardi Gras Press, 1996), Sifting Through the Madness, a collection of fiction (Xlibris, 2000) and deMOCKracy, Plain View Press, 2007. He has published fiction, poetry, travel and reviews in Potomac Review, Pleiades, Apalachee Quarterly, The Northern Virginia Review,The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, Beltway Quarterly, Pig Iron, DC Poets Against the War and others. He has work forthcoming in languageandculture.net; Sugar Mule and an anthology on the cento form to be published by Red Hen Press. Mike currently serves as an adjunct assistant-professor at Northern Virginia Community College.

Scott, Laura (MFA, 1993)

Laura Ellen Scott's Curio, a collection of creepy short stories is available from The Uncanny Press. Her novel Death Wishing, a comic fantasy set in New Orleans, will be released by IG Publishing October 2011. Laura is fiction editor for Prick of the Spindle and she blogs at probablyjustastory.blogspot.com.

Renfro, Yelizaveta P. (MFA, 2004)

Yelizaveta is the author of a collection of short stories, A Catalogue of Everything in the World, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review, Witness, Reader’s Digest, Blue Mesa Review, Parcel, Adanna, Fourth River, Bayou Magazine, Untamed Ink, So to Speak, and the anthologies A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection (OV Books, 2008) and Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There (Main Street Rag, 2010). She holds an MFA from George Mason University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. Born in the former Soviet Union, she has lived in California, Virginia, Nebraska, and Connecticut.

Bhatnagar, Supriya (MFA, 2005)

Supriya is the Director of Publications for The Association of Writers and Writing Programs and is the author of the memoir "and then there were three..." a collection of personal essays about a family rebuilding after tradgedy. The memoir was published in September 2010 (Serving House Books).

Scalise, Mike (MFA, 2008)

Mike's articles and essays have appeared in Agni, Post Road, Ninth Letter, HTMLGiant, The Rumpus and a number of other magazines and websites. He's received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Corporation of Yaddo, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. He was the initial programs manager for 826DC, and currently works at the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. He updates infrequently at mikescalise.net.

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