Alumni News

Sofia Puente-Lay, MFA '20, won the fiction category of Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest.

Rajpreet Heir, MFA '16, is starting this fall 2020 in as a tenure-track assistant professor in Creative Nonfiction at Ithaca College.

Danielle Badra, MFA '17, has won the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection, Like We Still Speak.

Jessica Anthony's Enter the Aardvark and Kelli Jo Ford's Crooked Hallelujah earn accolades in the nation's leading newspaper.

Poetry Professor Eric Pankey and MFA alum Madeleine Wattenburg earn award recognition with new works forthcoming.

Sam Ashworth, MFA ’18, wrote the cover story for the Washington Post Magazine, March 1, 2020: "The Beautiful Art of Hassling Politicians While Wearing Animal Costumes."

John Copenhaver talks about his debut novel, Dodging and Burning, and the many literary organizations he has been involved with, including crime mystery reviews for Lambda Literary.

Stephanie Liberatore's "Like New Professor, Like Mom" appears in Inside Higher Ed.