The Creative Writing Program is proud to celebrate the many successes of students past and present.
See below for our current news, and these pages for news from prior years: 2024–2025 news, 2023–2024 news, 2022-2023 news, 2021-2022 news. Please also visit our UWM creative writing program bookshelf.
Kim Rouse (MA in progress) won the Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.
Peter Burzyński (PhD, 2018) has just published his debut full-length poetry collection, Infinite Zero, with Writ Large Press. He is also the author of the chapbook A Year Alone inside of Woodland Pattern (Adjunct Press, 2022) and the translator of Martyna Buliżańska’s This Is My Earth (New American Press, 2019). Peter’s poetry, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in the Georgia Review, jacket2, the Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, RHINO, Storm Cellar, Thrush, Prick of the Spindle, Prelude, Your Impossible Voice, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere.
Alum and emerit professor Brenda Cárdenas (BA, 1987) recently spoke to WUWM-FM about her tenure as Wisconsin Poet Laureate.
Ryan Burden (PhD, 2021) has his debut novel, Where the Light Flickers, forthcoming from Silent Clamor Press.