- Professor’s book debuts on New York Times bestseller listThe Voice in My Head is God (Black Privilege/Penguin Random House), a debut memoir from Grammy-winning artist 2 Chainz cowritten with UWM professor and poet Derrick Harriell, debuted at number 10 on the Times' Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Bestseller list in March 2026.
- Creative Writing Student Wins AwardKim Rouse, who is pursuing an MA in English with a creative writing focus, recently won a Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. Congratuations, Kim!
- Su Cho and Canese Jarboe Named 2025 NEA Fellows in PoetrySu Cho (PhD, 2021) and Canese Jarboe (PhD, 2024), have both been named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry and will receive grants of $25,000 each. Cho will join Vanderbilt University's MFA program as an assistant professor in fall 2025; Jarboe published their collection Sissy (Garden-Door Press) in 2024 and was also a 2024 Tallgrass Artist-in-Residence. …
- Susan Kerns, PhD, named executive director of Milwaukee FilmSusan Kerns, Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies at UWM, accomplished filmmaker, and scholar, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival, and recent Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Research and Development at Columbia University, has been named executive director of Milwaukee Film. Read more on the Milwaukee film website.
- Brenda Cárdenas Named Wisconsin Poet LaureatePoetry faculty emerita and alumna Brenda Cárdenas was named Wisconsin Poet Laureate in December, 2024. Her two-year term starts January 15, 2025. Her books include Trace (Red Hen Press) and Boomerang (Bilingual Press). In addition, she is the author or co-author of three chapbooks: Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors, Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote, and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone. Congratulations, Brenda!
