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Congrats to 2011
MFA GRADUATES
Jonah Charney-
Sirott
Colleen Coyne
Brian Gebhart
Brian Laidlaw
David LeGault
Lianna Liu
Colleen McCarthy
Edward McPherson
Heather McPherson
Josh Morsell
Sheena Fallon (MFA 2010) published
the essay “Growing Up in Long Island”
in Meridian. Her essay, “Hoop Earrings,”
appeared in Midway Journal.
Kevin Fenton (MFA 2005) was named
Board Chair of Rain Taxi Review of
Books. His novel, Merit Badges (AWP
Award for the Novel), is now available
in paperback.
Amanda Fields (MFA 2005) published
essays in Superstition Review and
Cerise Press. Her essay, “Cairo Tunnel,”
was republished in the 9th edition
of Bedford St. Martin’s The Compact
Reader: Short Essays by Method and
Theme.
Laura Flynn (MFA 2006), Board
Member of the Aristide Foundation for
Democracy, published the article “In
Haiti, Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for
Aristide” in the Huffington Post.
Lauren Fox (MFA 1998) will publish
her second novel, Friends Like Us, in
February 2012 with Knopf.
Julie Gard (MFA 2000) was hired as
Assistant Professor of Writing at the
University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Kathleen Glasgow (MFA 2002) won
the annual fiction award bestowed by
the University of Minnesota’s alumni
magazine Minnesota with her short story,
“Leaving”; the story was published
in the June 2011 issue. Glasgow will be
the featured poet in Orange Quarterly’s
February 2012 issue.
Will Hermes (MA 1995) published
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five
Years in New York that Changed Music
Forever with Faber & Faber.
Kate Hopper (MFA 2005) will publish
her book Use Your Words: A Writing
Guide for Mothers with Viva Editions
in spring 2012.
Patrick Hueller (MFA 2010) published
the young adult novel, Foul, with
One of the premier artist communities in the
Upper Midwest, the Anderson Center in
beautiful Red Wing, Minnesota, has hosted
writers and artists from across the
United States and abroad.
Applications are now being accepted for May – October.
For a residency application and deadlines:
Anderson Center
P.O. Box 406, Red Wing, Minnesota, 55066
651-388-2009 www.andersoncenter.org
Member of Alliance of Artists' Communities
RES ARTIS: International Association of Residential Arts Centres
Lerner Books, under the pen name Paul
Hoblin.
Arlene Kim (MFA 2008) published her
debut collection of poetry, What have
you done to our ears to make us hear
echoes? (Milkweed Editions).
Priscilla Kinter (MFA 2010) published
her essay, “The Myth of the Prose
Poem,” in Sentence 8. Midway Journal
published “A Storytelling of Crows”
and “Things to Consider . . . 742.” She
is now nonfiction editor there. Essays
also appeared in Hotel Amerika and
Caketrain. Her essay “Tom” was selected
as one of the winners of the New
Delta Review Contest and published in
the June issue. Her manuscript has been
selected as a finalist in the Zone 3 2011
Nonfiction Book Award, judged by Lia
Purpura. She writes for the Writer’s
Almanac.
Brian Laidlaw (MFA 2011) released
his first album wolf wolf wolf (the audio
counterpart to his poetry thesis). He
is Adjunct Instructor of Songwriting
and Lyric at McNally Smith College
of Music. Five poems were published
in the Iowa Review and five in No Tell
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