Spring 2015 Student News

Joy Allen is the assistant managing editor of the new literary journal Anthropoid, which launched its first issue in December.

Melissa Chadburn sold her first novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Catie Disabato received a starred review in Publishers Weekly for her first novel, The Ghost Network, which will be published in May by Melville House.

Jennifer Alise Drew’s essay “Proprioception” was published in The Iowa Review (and featured on the cover with John Ashbery and Robert Coover!), and her previously published essay “Lessons in Sign” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hippocampus Magazine.

Terrance Flynn’s essay “Having Faith” was a finalist for the Southern Indiana Review’s 2014 Patricia Aakhus Award. He is also serving a second term as a juror for the Sustainable Arts Foundation writing awards.

Amanda McCraven was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by New Southerner for her essay “What My Sister Does Now.”

Anthony Mohr has an essay, “Rainy Day Schedule,” forthcoming in Diagram.

Creative nonfiction student Stephanie Ross was a finalist for the Kentucky Women Writers Conference’s Prize for Women Playwrights for her play “The Art of Jack the Ripper,” “a dark raucous performance work exploring why violence against women persists in reality and as entertainment—especially sexual violence.”

Lisa Sanchez was named Executive Director of Dorland Mountain Arts Colony.

Merna Skinner’s poem “Southern Bound White Girl” will be published by Squaw Valley Review later this year. She is also finalizing her chapbook A Brief History of Two Aprons to submit to chapbook competitions this month.

Megan Stephan and her husband Matthew Fisher welcomed a new writer into the world: Miles Stephan Fisher was born on December 22, 2014. A week earlier, she also published “The Year of Guilty Pleasures” at Public Books.

Lauren Westerfield’s essay “Cracks” was published in the Winter 2014 issue of Redivider and her essay “Mother Maps“ appeared on The Butter in January.