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.

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.

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.

Mary Bonina (poetry ’85): Mary is thrilled that her poetry chapbook, “Living Proof” (2010, Cervena Barva Press), is now a part of the WWC library collection, call number and all! It’s available through the Cervena Barva Press website.  A review by Jen Garfield, poetry editor at Prick of the Spindle, is also available.

Julie Bruck (poetry ’86): Julie’s third book of poetry, Monkey Ranch, will be published by Brick Books in March, 2012.  In other news, Julie Bruck and Lewis Buzbee’s daughter Maddy starts high school next year (Eek!).

Mary Lou Buschi (poetry ’04): Mary Lou has poems forthcoming in Willow Springs, Cream City Review, Rhino, and Gargoyle.  She finished her fellowship with the New York City Teaching Fellows and is staying on as a full-time special education teacher working with adolescents diagnosed with autism.

Lewis Buzbee (Fiction ’82): Lewis’ new novel, Bridge of Time, will be published by Feiwel and Friends in May, 2012. His last novel, The Haunting of Charles Dickens (2010, Feiwel and Freinds), won the Northern California Book Award and was nominated for an Edgar Award. In other news, Lewis and Julie Bruck’s daughter Maddy starts high school next year (Eek!).