Alumni Updates

Daniel Tobin (poetry ’90): Daniel’s most recent book of poems, Belated Heavens (Malcolm McDonald Series Selection) (2010, Four Way Books) won the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry, his book of essays on Irish-American poetry, has been released by University of Notre Dame Press.

Addie Tsai (poetry ’05): Addie has nonfiction pieces forthcoming in Post Road and Make/Shift. She will be collaborating on a new piece for the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater based on the sculptor Camille Claudel in May 2012. She will moderate a panel at the AWP 2012 Conference titled: “Hybrid Bodies: Poets Negotiating the Fractal Geographies of Trauma and Identity.”

Rosalynde Vas Dias (poetry ’06): Rosalynde’s manuscript Only Blue Body was selected as the winner of the Anhinga Press Robert Dana Award.  Only Blue Body was recently released by the press.