Robert V.S. Redick (fiction ’2001): Robert’s novel The River of Shadows was published in March 2011 by Gollancz (U.K.) and Del Rey (U.S.). The fourth and final book in the series will be published in May 2012. In October, Robert was a finalist in the Esquire 2011 short-short fiction contest, and was selected to attend a workshop with National Book Award-Winner Colum McCann.

Kristen Rembold (poetry ’06): Kristen’s poetry chapbook, Leaf and Tendril (2011, Finishing Line Press) is now available.

Joe Schuster (fiction ’91): Joe’s novel, The Might Have Been, will appear in March 2012 from Ballantine Books.

Natalie Serber (fiction ’05): Natalie’s short story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, will be released in June 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  She is working on a new novel that the publisher purchased in a two book deal.

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.

Jacquelyn Malone (poetry ’82): Jacquelyn’s chapbook All Waters Run to Lethe (2011, Finishing Line Press) was published last summer. In 2010, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Beloit Poetry Journal. She currently runs the website and is on the Board of Directors of The Massachusetts Poetry Festival.

Sally Molini (poetry ’04): Sally has published poems in American Letters & Commentary, Asheville Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Atlanta Review, Everyday Genius, and Cimarron Review.

Elizabeth (Libby) Mosier (fiction ’91): Elizabeth’s novella, The Playgroup, was published in 2011 by Gemma Open Door, a series designed to promote adult literacy.  The editor is Brian Bouldrey (Fiction ’91), and the series also includes The Possibility of Lions by Marta Maretich (Fiction ’91) and Peach by Joanne Green (Fiction ’92).

Lauren Yaffe (fiction ’92): Lauren has two poems,  “Change in Light” and “Tears” forthcoming in Willow Review, spring 2012. In July 2011 she received the Writers’ Relief’s Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award. Her story “A Woman of Letters” appears in the Altered States Anthology (2011, Main Street Rag).

Faith S. Holsaert (fiction ’82): Faith’s story “Appalachian Mitzvah” will appear in the winter 2012 edition of Spittoon.

Jenny Johnson (poetry ’11): Jenny is the 2011 winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal’s annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize for her poem “Aria.” This year, the prize carries an award of $5000. To read the poem and Jenny’s reflections on the crafting of “Aria”, check out the BPJ Poet’s Forum blog

Margaret Kaufman (poetry ’92): Margaret’s latest book of poetry is Inheritance (2010, Sixteen Rivers Press). She is ever grateful for what she learned at Warren Wilson and the for the friends she made there. This winter she’ll teach a course on American Poets of Note at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning (USF).

Krys Lee (fiction ’08): Krys’ story collection Drifting House, which she began at Warren Wilson, was released by Viking/Penguin on Feb 6, 2012. It is part of a two-book deal.