Faith S. Holsaert (fiction ’82): Faith has a short sequence of poems forthcoming in So to Speak, a Feminist Journal of Language and Art, where she was selected by Claudia Rankine for an honorable mention in the journal’s poetry contest. You can find an excerpt as well as her artist’s statement here.
Faith’s short story “Appalachian Mitzvah,” appeared in the December 2011 issue of Spittoon. Faith also blogs at A Writer’s Work: an agitation of writing and reading.
Bob Ayres (Poetry ’93): Bob’s first collection of poems, Shadow of Wings, will be published this spring by Main Street Rag Publishing Company as part of its Author’s Choice Chapbook Series. The manuscript was recommended for the series by fellow alum Gail Peck (poetry ’87).
The March/April 2012 issue of Poets and Writers Magazine will carry an article by Warren Wilson graduate Jennifer Wisner Kelly titled, “Why We Write: The Tax Man Cometh.” From Poets and Writers:
As if rejections from literary magazines weren’t enough, the ultimate rejection (with an eight-thousand-dollar invoice to boot) comes from the IRS. Contributor Jennifer Wisner Kelly chronicles what it takes to be a Writer in the eyes of Uncle Sam.
Jennifer’s first published story is forthcoming in the Greensboro Review.
Krys Lee (fiction ’08) talks about her book Drifting House
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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)
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
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
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
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.
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