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LG Sebayan\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD in progress) has a poem, \u201cSneakerhead Wife,\u201d in the latest\u00a0Calyx Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to LG Sebayan<\/strong> (PhD in progress), whose poem,\u201cFor the Indigenous Girl in Fig. 7\u201d won honorable mention in the 2025 AWP Intro Journals Project<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Nancy Nguyen<\/strong> (PhD in progress), whose story, “Breach<\/a>,” won the Passages North Waasnode Fiction Prize, selected by Mar\u00eda Alejandra Barrios. It appears in issue 46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Hren\u00a0<\/strong>(BA, MA, PhD, 2011) has published his eleventh book, a novel,\u00a0Blue Walls Falling Down<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Visser<\/strong> (BA 2009, MA, 2012) is the co-founder and co-host of a monthly variety hour called \u201cThe Non-Fiction Show<\/a>\u201d in Los Angeles and was the subject of a recent profile in L&S In Focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Su Cho<\/strong> (PhD, 2021) and Canese Jarboe<\/strong> (PhD, 2024), who have both been named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry. Cho will join Vanderbilt University\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Wisniewski<\/strong> (MA, 2017) is senior lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Jessica Lynn Drake-Thomas<\/strong> (PhD in progress) whose novella, Hollow Girls<\/em>, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry faculty emerita and alumna Brenda C\u00e1rdenas<\/strong> was named Wisconsin Poet Laureate<\/a> in December, 2024. Her two-year term starts January 15, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Battle<\/strong> (\u201919, BA Economics and English) is the writer of \u201cThe Dead Memoirs,\u201d a musical hip-hopera based on the novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Br\u00e1s Cubas by Machado de Assis. On Nov. 11, the show debuted at the sold-out Dormouse Theatre<\/a> in Kalamazoo, Michigan to an enthusiastic audience. More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brookes Moody<\/strong> (PhD, 2021) will see her debut poetry collection, Astral Weeks, Etc.<\/a>,<\/em> published by Finishing Line Press<\/a> on March 14, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Odeneal<\/strong> (BA, 2019) has a new story, “Move<\/a>,” out in Unwoven.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Jessica Lynn<\/strong> (BA, 2009), whose novella, Eye of a Needle<\/em><\/a>, was published this past summer by Hell Hare House Short Reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Benjamin<\/strong> (MA, 1997) has a new chapbook out, Painted Women in the Walls<\/em><\/a>, from Finishing Line Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Hren <\/strong>(BA, MA, PhD, 2011) has published his eleventh book, a novel, Blue Walls Falling Down<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LG Sebayan <\/strong>(PhD in progress) has a poem, \u201cSneakerhead Wife,\u201d in the latest Calyx Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel Mundo <\/strong>(PhD in progress) has an essay, “Margarita Night,” forthcoming in Black Warrior Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Matthew Wamser<\/strong> (BA, 2018), who was named one of this year’s fellows<\/a> at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth Copeland <\/strong>(PhD, 2024) will join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Ching-In Chen<\/strong> (PhD, 2015) on receiving a $50,000 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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