Greeott Wins Fulbright Fellowship to Italy

Second-year translation student Anne Greeott has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy! During her nine-month appointment, Anne will research and translate a selection of Mario Luzi's poetry in collaboration with the Fondazione Mario Luzi in Rome. In addition, she'll conduct workshops in Italian public schools on creative writing and literary translation. Congratulations to Anne on this terrific achievement!

Verse Daily Features Bowen

The April 28 edition of Verse Daily features "Whatever Monster," a poem from the collection The Even Years of Marriage by alum Ash Bowen (2008).

Subscribe to Linebreak

Linebreak, an online poetry journal that published poems weekly, with audio, is back! Or it could be soon, with your help. The editors, alums Johnathon Williams (2010) and Ash Bowen (2008), are looking for subscribers. Learn more about Linebreak and the benefits to subscribers here.

Heil in Quarter After Eight

Third-year translation student Kathleen Heil has an essay titled "Borges & I" in the 20th anniversary issue of Quarter After Eight. You can purchase the latest issue, which also includes work by Ander Monson, Sarah Lindsay, and Sean Lovelace, here.

Chapbook Release Party for Takacs

The Burning Chair Readings present a chapbook release party for second-year poet Eszter Takacs at 7pm this Thursday, April 24. Eszter's "Together We Will Talk Right Down to Earth" is being published by The New Megaphone and will be available for sale. It all goes down at Backspace, 546 W. Center Street, just off the trail.

Joyce Carol Oates on Ozarks at Large

Ozarks at Large on our local NPR station featured an interview with Joyce Carol Oates about writing, teaching, and her recent visit to Fayetteville. Visit the OAL webpage and search for the April 17 broadcast to listen to the full segment. 

Three Authors Join Our Faculty This Fall!

The UA Programs in Creative Writing and Translation are proud to announce that three dynamic, talented writers will join our faculty this fall! Fiction writers Toni Jensen and Padma Viswanathan and poet Geffrey Davis will join our program as tenure-track assistant professors in August.

Toni Jensen is the author of From the Hilltop, which was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories delve into the intertwined lives of Native characters outside the reservation. Always complex, her characters defy stereotype in favor of their own truths about life and tradition.

Novelist, playwright, and essayist Padma Viswanathan is the author of The Toss of a Lemon (2008) and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published this month by Random House Canada. Her novels dig deeply into issues of culture, memory, history, and identity to reveal characters complex in both their emotional and interpersonal connections.

Geffrey Davis is the author of Revising the Storm, recently published by BOA Editions and winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide and won numerous awards, including the Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

For full details on these exciting new hires, read the news release here.

Toni Jensen

Padma Viswanathan

Geffrey Davis

Hoahwah Featured on Poetry Foundation Blog

In celebration of National Poetry Month, The Poetry Foundation asked alum Sy Hoahwah (2007) to contribute to its blog HARRIET. You can read "Careening Through the Birthplace of John Berryman to Get to a Reading in Chickasaw Nation" here.

Sy is the author of the collection Velroy and the Madischie Mafia. In 2013, he won an NEA fellowship.

Witness Features Fiction by O'Grady

The Spring 2014 issue of Witness, the journal out of Black Mountain Institute, features a story excerpt by visiting associate professor Timothy O'Grady. You can read the prologue from his work "Monaghan" here.

"The Tulip-Flame" Now Available

Congratulations to alum Chloe Honum (2010) whose first collection, The Tulip-Flame, is now available for purchase! Chloe's book won the 2013 First Book Prize from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. This week, the Missouri Review blog offered some advance praise. You can read more about Chloe and her work on her website.

Ombres in the McNeese Review

Volume 51 of the McNeese Review features two poems by alum Jennifer Ombres (2008). Find it on bookshelves now to read "Like Ghosts" and "The Lagoon."

Haschemeyer in AQR

The Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review features "Too Much Horse," a new story by alum Otis Haschemeyer (2000).  

Yarbrough Wins MIAL Fiction Prize

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters has awarded its 2014 Fiction Prize to alum Steve Yarbrough (1985) for his latest novel, The Realm of Last Chances.

Steve's book beat out some tough competitors, including Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. In total, four of the authors nominated for the prize were graduates of our program -- Steve Yarbrough, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, and Steve Yates. What good company (and competition). Congratulations, Steve!

Wright on PBS Poem of the Week

The PBS website features a clip of alum C.D. Wright (1976) reading her poem "Obscurity and Legacy" at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Wright's poem appeared in the Smithsonian's Civil War anthology Lines in Long Array, which also features work by professor Geoff Brock. Click here for the full clip.