Student and Faculty News

• Faculty member Baron Wormser had his poem “Great Plains” read by Garrison Keilor on The Writer’s Almanac.

• Three MFA faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) literary fellowships in creative writing in fiction. The $25,000 awards have gone to Nalini Jones, Porochista Khakpour, and Suzanne Matson.

• Michael White’s latest novel, Beautiful Assassin, won the 2011 Connecticut Book Award for Fiction.

• Christine Koubek’s essay “Finding Ann Marie,” which was published in Bethesda Magazine and Ladies’ Home Journal, came in second place for ASJA’s 2011 Arlene Award.

• Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel contributed a short story titled "The Window" to the New England Native American anthology. In addition, The University of Nebraska will publish "Dawnland Voices," in 2013.

• Sarah Balsley had an essay published in Brain Child, the magazine for thinking Mothers.

• Jeanne DeLarm-Neri won the “Connecticut Maple Leaf” essay contest Winter 2011: for “DeLarm – A Single Tear or An Elm Tree.” Also published were two pieces in Times Of Brunswick, Greenwich CT, Winter 2011 “Brunswick Boys,” and Winter 2012 “Mr. Cosby’s Portrait.”

• Travis Baker’s play, One Blue Tarp, was named a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference.

• Adele Annesi was named managing editor of Southern Literary Review.  Her fiction piece, “Days of Obligation” was adapted for and performed at the 2011 Ridgefield Cultural Festival. Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, which included her essay “After the Sunflowers,” which won the 2011 Clarion Award. Her short story “Resolution” is slated to appear in Midway Journal.

• Daisy Abreu’s essay, “Back and Forth” will be published online in Label Me Latina/o, spring edition, 2012.

• Reuben Hayslett published a story in The Surreal South '11 Anthology called, "Like a Feather."

• Brian Hoover’s essay “A Rock Snob to His Infant Daughter” appears in the Fall 2011 issue of The Normal School.  The piece has also been accepted into YOU. An Anthology of Essays in the Second Person, due out this winter from Welcome Table Press.

• Tommy Hahn’s essay is going to be featured in a 2012 book on craft entitled, Created Writing: Poetry From New Angles, by Professor Paul Agostino.

• Matthew Hamilton has had two poems published: in Muddy River Poetry Review: Fall 2011 and Atticus Review: August 2011: He also had a chapbook accepted for publication: The Land of the Four Rivers, to be published by Cervena Barva Press.

• Kelly Coveny had her poem "Orkin Man" published in Gargoyle anthology and the poems "Boo Yow" and "Jesus is Not Pulling His Weight" essays in Porchlight.  Her poems "Life Without GPS" and "The Forsythia is in Full Bloom as My Mom Pulls Away in Her Sunshine Yellow Beetle with Cancer Again" appeared in Touch: The Journal of Healing.

• Wendy Hoffman’s poem, called, "When Things Become People" was published in Burning Bright, Passager Celebrates 21 Years. Two poems, "A Century" and "Soul,” appeared in Jewish Women's Literary Annual, volume 8.

• Heidi St. Jean’s poem, “Goddess” appeared in Inklight/Afterimage online, The Journal of Media Arts and Criticism. St. Jean has had poems accepted in The Hill-Stead Museum’s inaugural issue of its new online poetry journal, Theodate and in Long River Run the journal of CT Poetry Society.

• Mark Berry had “Teaching is a License to Learn” published in AOPA Flight Training magazine in February. Write This online literary magazine published his story, “The Secret the Darkness Completely Concealed” in January. Embry-Riddle published his story “25 Years Since ERAU” on their alumni website ERAU EaglesNEST.  He is giving a seminar on “Infusing Music Into the Story” later this month at Bowling Green’s Winter Wheat Festival.