Krys Lee (fiction ’08) talks about her book Drifting House on CBS News’ Author Talk:
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Krys Lee (fiction ’08) talks about her book Drifting House on CBS News’ Author Talk:
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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.
Susan Sterling (fiction ’92): Susan’s story “Paris Street” appears in the fantasy/science fiction anthology, Altered States (2011, Main Street Rag).
Jeneva Stone (poetry ’07): Jeneva is a 2012 recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship in Nonfiction. An essay of hers appears in the fall 2011 issue of Colorado Review.
Janet Thornburg (fiction ’07): Janet read from her memoir-in-progress at Why There Are Words, the literary reading series hosted by Wally Peg Alford Pursell in Sausalito, California. Her short story, “Musical Tables” was published online in Diverse Voices Quarterly in January, and in April it appeared in print in Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine. In August she attended the Wet Mountain Valley Writers’ Conference in Colorado, where she studied with Dorothy Allison. She is currently working on her novel, Calling Her Back from the Dead.
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.
Heidy Steidlmayer (poetry ’00): Fowling Piece, Heidy’s new book of poems, was just released from TRiQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press. Linda Gregerson said of the poems: “Half anchorite, half archaeologist, she excavates the word-hoard in poems as brilliantly crafted and intensely felt as any I know…Steidlmayer has a mind like surgical steel and a spirit all radiance. Fowling Piece is a stunning debut.”
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).
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.
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.
Marcia Pelletiere (poetry ’93): Marcia’s book, Miracle with Roasted Hens was recently published through Spit Bite Press.
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.
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.
Aneesha Capur (fiction ’10): Aneesha’s novel, Stealing Karma (2011, HarperCollins India) debuted at the Beijing International Literary Festival in March 2011 and was featured in the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia in October 2011. Stealing Karma was picked as Essential Reading in the Sunday Guardian, was featured on CNN-IBN and WHSmith’s Bestsellers List, and was listed in the Top 5 Fiction Picks in The Hindu, India’s leading newspaper.
Martha Carlson-Bradley (poetry ’89): Martha’s fourth collection, If I Take You Here, was published by Adastra Press in the spring of 2011. She taught at the 2011 Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching.
Patrick Donnelly (poetry ’03): Patrick has directed one iteration of the Advanced Seminar, one of three summer poetry conferences at The Frost Place. He is making plans for Advanced Seminar 2012. He would like to thank Wallies Adrian Blevins (faculty), Maudelle Driskell (Executive Director), and special guest Ellen Bryant Voigt for their contributions to last semester’s Seminar. Patrick has also proofed the final galleys for his second book of poems, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Stahlecker Selections), available April 1 from Four Way Books. The Wind from Vulture Peak: the Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Era, a collection of classical Japanese poems co-translated with Stephen D. Miller, will be released in 2012 from Cornell East Asia Series.
Michelle Gillett (poetry ’82): Michelle’s book The Green Cottage (2011, The Ledge Press) was selected as winner of The Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook Award.
Here is Jane’s brief account of her few days on the WWC campus as the creative nonfiction Writer-in-Residence last fall:
The Warren Wilson I knew as an MFA student during the 1980s was very much its own world. We landed on campus for but a brief time in winter and again in summer, and we filled only a small portion of the place. As well, we were consumed with the intensity of the residency. We knew almost nothing of the undergraduate program, and didn’t much comprehend what it meant to be at an historic work college. When I returned as Writer in Residence this past November – for the first time since my graduation in 1988 — a few things were easily familiar: the farm, the river, the view from the ridge. But they were interwoven with the strange: a walking bridge, so many more buildings. Newest of all to me was what had been there all along — the burgeoning undergraduate life of the place: student work crews everywhere trimming trees, building podiums, renovating buildings; live, impromptu music filling the cool November night…. To see it in all its energy and particularities brought Warren Wilson full circle.
For me, teaching creative writing to undergraduates is also an intersection of the familiar and strange. As an undergraduate during the 1970s I had almost no chance to take a creative writing workshop, so to be invited to participate in such a strong writing program felt quite special. As I sat with a senior at Cowpie to go over her portfolio, or as I visited Catherine Reid’s class in Jensen to discuss not only the craft of writing but also the time and dedication that the writing life takes, I could see what a difference early support was making in the students’ lives. And I couldn’t help but be buoyed by so much hope, enthusiasm, and talent in a place that is intimately tied to my own journey as a writer.
Jane is the author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light