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FacultyChris Barzak’s second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, (Bantom, 2008) was selected for the James Tiptree Jr. Award's Honor List. A story from it was recently published in an anthology called Firebirds Soaring (a YA anthology, Viking Press). Barzak also co-edited a volume of short fiction called Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, with Delia Sherman, to be published this coming November 2009. One for Sorrow to be will be translated later this year into Spanish by La Factoria De Ideas. Mary Biddinger became director of the NEOMFA program on July 1, 2009, and will serve in this role until 2012. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, diode, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Memorious, /nor, North American Review, Passages North, and Third Coast. Prose has recently appeared on Delirious Hem. She continues to edit the Akron Series in Poetry and Barn Owl Review.
Philip Brady has published his second book of creative non-fiction, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust-Belt Bard (University of Tennessee, 2008). By Heart was named Book of the Year in the category of “Essays” by Foreword Magazine. Brady also won this year’s Ohioana Poetry Award for contributions to poetry, and he was the featured poet at the Ohioana Book Festival. His essay, “My Dinner with Joe,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Mountains Review
Michael Dumanis
won the
won the Juniper Prize for Poetry
from the University of Massachusetts Press for his first collection of poems,
My Soviet Union,
published in 2007. Mike Geither received a 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting from the Ohio Arts Council. His play, "Stars Fell All Night," had a staged reading in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in August 2005, and was performed at Cleveland Playhouse. His play, "Living Tall," was performed in March 2008 at Cleveland Public Theater.
Robert Miltner has poems in recent issues of Muse, Moonlit, Rubbertop Review, Birmingham Poetry Review,and LIT; new stories have appeared in Storyglossia and Istanbul Literary Review. He has been awarded a KSU creative activity grant for 2009-10 to work on a novel, Tempest. In 2008, the University of South Carolina Press published his co-edited collection New Paths to Raymond Carver: Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry.
William Greenway’s
ninth book of poems, Everywhere At Once, was published by
University of Akron Press. Everywhere at Once is a finalist for the
Ohioana Book Award in the category of “Poetry.” Greenway had
twenty-two poems published or accepted for publication this year, in
journals including Artful Dodge, Georgetown Review, Southern
Review, and Xanadu. His poem “The Wheezy Pump” was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Comstock Review. Varley O'Connor's book, The Cure, was published in 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press.
Craig Paulenich was the featured Alumnus Reader for the Bowling Green State University Creative Writing 2008-2009 Reading Series. A His book of poetry Drift of the Hunt was published by Nobodaddies Press, Sacramento, CA, in August 2006.
Steve Reese’s translation of Synergos: Selected Poems of Roberto Manzano was published by Etruscan Press in 2008. Reese’s second collection of poems, American Dervishes, was accepted for publication by Salmon Press (Ireland), and his second book of Spanish translations, The Poems of Diana Gonzales, was accepted for publication by Arana Press (Spain). Reese also published five poems this year, in The Georgetown Journal, The Journal, Green Mountains Review, Roanoke Review, and Hurricane Review.
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Alyssa Berthiaume won The University of Akron Women’s Studies 2008 Poetry Contest.
Kelly Bancroft's essay "Boob Suit" recently appeared in
JMWW and
her
essay "Tornado" appeared in
Whiskey Island, both 2007. Frank DePoole, Virginia Konchan, & Eric M. Morris, presented workshops at the November 2008 Winter Wheat Conference at Bowling Green State University.
Wayne Elliott presented a
paper, "Knights, Dykes, Damsels, and Fags: Gender Roles and Normative Pressures
in Neomedieval Films," at the
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University
Virginia Konchan's
story "Blackbird" was awarded an honorable mention in the
2008 Student Writing Contest sponsored by
The Atlantic
Monthly. Her
review of Bern Mulvey's The Fat Sheep Everybody Wants
appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Colorado
Review, and her reviews of Karen Volkman's Nomina and Stuart Dybek's
Streets in Their Own Ink appeared in the Fall 2008 issues of American
Poetry Journal and Jacket, respectively. Her poems “In Light of
Light” and “Letter from the Old Country” were featured in the December 2008
issue of Disquieting Muses Quarterly; her forthcoming poems include
“Wheel of Fortune” and “Alternative Ending” in Notre Dame Review,
“American Gothic” in The Believer, and “The Resurrection of John Keats”
in The New Republic. Jeremy Sayers' won the 2009 Marian Smith Short Story Award for his story "Inheritance." His short story, “Consequences,” was published in February 2008 by Cedar Hill Press. It will also be available on-line as a podcast, and his short story, “Pocheen,” was published in YACK 2007.
Karen Schubert's poem
"The Day She Almost Didn't Die" was published in
The Broome Review, Spring 2008 and "Two Dancers on a Stage" was
published in
Sin Fronteras. Her poems "Fire" and "I am restless as the end of summer"
are in the December 2007 issue of
Lunarosity, "Talking to Your Daughter About Lying" is in issue 5
of
Cartographer Electric,
"After 'The Death of Chatterton'" is in Pacific Review 2007-2008,
"Men With Good Names" is in issue one
of
Storyscape, and
"After Dylan Thomas" was published in
Sea Stories:
Hibernal 2008. Her chapbook, The Geography of Lost Houses, won 2nd
place and has been published by Pudding House. Laurin Wolf has had a poem published in the 2007 issue of Two Review. |
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