Alumni Updates

Matthew Olzmann (poetry ’09): Matthew’s first book of poems, Mezzanines, was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Prize and will be published by Alice James Books in April, 2013.  This fall, his poems appeared in The Southern Review and Gulf Coast, and he has fiction forthcoming in Twelve Stories and Necessary Fiction.

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Sue Oringel (poetry ’98): Sue’s book of Latin American poetry Messengers of Rain(2002, Groundwood Press), which she co-translated, released a bilingual paperback edition in fall 2011.

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Marcia Pelletiere (poetry ’93): Marcia’s book, Miracle with Roasted Hens was recently published through Spit Bite Press.

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Edward Porter (fiction ’07): Edward has a story currently appearing in Printer’s Devil Review and another forthcoming in Barrelhouse. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Houston, where he is a fourth year PhD candidate.