Monday, December 22, 2014

Cosmopolitan Features Maya Sloan

Cosmopolitan's "Get that Life" column -- a weekly series in which successful, talented women reveal how they got to be where they are -- features UA alum Maya Sloan (2006)! Read the full article to hear how Maya launched her career as a novelist and also as a ghostwriter for the rich and famous.

Friday, December 19, 2014

Ombres Poems in Stoneboat

The fall 2014 issue of Stoneboat Literary Journal features new work by alum Jennifer Ombres (2008). Pick up your copy to read Jen's poem "Gizzeria, Italy."

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Tanaka in Anomalous Press

Anomalous Press features new work by alum Kaj Tanaka (2013), online now. You can read his story, "Killemoff," here.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Otto Story Anthologized

Traveling over the holiday? You'll need some good reading material. Pick up For the Road: Short Stories of America's Highways, a new anthology that features "Shadow of the Spider" by fourth-year student Alice Otto.

Monday, December 15, 2014

Fugue Features Fiction by Nickol


Alum Ben Nickol (2011) has a story, "Flamingo Motel," in issue 47 of Fugue. The story is part of Ben's first collection, Where the Wind Can Find It, which will be published by Queen's Ferry Press in 2015.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Brown in Black Warrior Review


The Fall/Winter 2014 issue of Black Warrior Review features "burntcork / Hagiography," a poem about the pitfalls of minstrel music and mimicry, by alum J. Camp Brown (2013).

Thursday, December 11, 2014

McHugh Poem on Linebreak

Graduate Ashley Anna McHugh (2011) has a new poem on Linebreak this week. You can read "Newlyweds at the Antique Shop," or hear it read aloud by Maryann Corbett, here.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

McCabe Reviews Laura Ingalls Wilder Memoir


Check out the Los Angeles Review of Books, where alum Nancy McCabe (1989) examines the long-awaited memoir of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl, written in 1930. Nancy's own book, From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood, is available now from University of Missouri Press.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Heil Translation in Subtropics


Fourth-year student Kathleen Heil has work in the latest Subtropics. Pick up issue 18 to read her translation of "One of the Last Things My Father Said to Me," a story by Argentinian author Patricio Pron.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Clay in Boston Review


The November/December 2014 issue of Boston Review features a poem by graduate Adam Clay (2005). Read "Goodbye to All That, the Birds Included."


Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Moon City Press Interviews Yates

Moon City Press offers a long interview with alum Steve Yates (1994) on his soon-to-be-published novel, The Teeth of the Souls. Steve speaks of the balance he strikes between a demanding job and his writing, and the pull of Ozarks history on his imagination.

Monday, December 1, 2014

Brock Translations in Palabras Errantes

Palabras Errantes, a journal dedicated to Latin American literature in translation, features new translations by professor Geoff Brock. Get a taste of Greek myth through the poetry of Uruguayan authors Horacio Cavallo and Francisco Tomsich, here.