Murphy Featured in Thuglit, Issue 5

Love crime fiction, gritty, dark, and sour? Check out issue 5 of Thuglit, which features the story "Gato Negro" by alum Chris Murphy (2009). 

Recent Grads in The Journal and More!

The summer 2013 issue of The Journal features poetry by three recent graduates, Corrie Williamson (2013), Chloe Honum (2010), and Stacy Kidd (2004). 

You'll need to purchase the print edition to read Stacy's "Choose your poison," Chloe's "Nursing Home" and Corrie's "Bear Hunters at McAfee's Knob" and "Hiking to Goldbug Hot Springs, I Consider the Discovery of Lewis and Clark’s Shitter at Traveler’s Rest, Montana." But how can you resist?

Also check out two poems from Chloe in the latest issue of The Southern Review, "Dressing Room" and "Seated Dancer," both read by the author here.

Two Graduates Featured in Flavorwire List

Flavorwire's list of "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry," features two UA graduates!

Matthew Henriksen (2004) is the author of Ordinary Sun, praised as one of the best poetry collections from a small press in 2011. He co-edits Typo, is editor of Cannibal Books, and established, with his wife, Katy, the Burning Chair reading series.

Brian Spears (2002) is the author of A Witness in Exile. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2002-2004 and winner of the  2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. He teaches at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and is poetry editor of The Rumpus.

Harris Wins PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

Congratulations to alum Elizabeth Harris, whose work-in-progress, a translation of Antonio Tabucchi's novel Tristano Dies, has been awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Her manuscript, soon to be published by Archipelago Books, was selected from 180 applications.

Elizabeth graduated from our program with an MFA in fiction in 1999 and an MFA in translation in 2000. Her translations appear in numerous journals and have been featured twice in Best European Fiction anthologies. Brava, Elizabeth!

Two Stories by Erika Seay

Two stories by alumna Erika Seay (2012) appear in journals now. Find "The Great Barrier Reef" in the current issue of Colorado Review and "Not This Human Sadness" in issue 30 of Meridian. 

Erika's work won second prize in the 2011 Playboy Fiction Contest. For more about Erika and her fiction, click here.

Two of Our Own in Subtropics

The new issue of Subtropics contains poems by two of our own: "What I Am, What I Might Have Been," by 2011 grad Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, and "Wilson's Carolina Parakeet: 1810," by Geoff Brock, professor of poetry and translation. 

Brock in The Paris Review

Geoff Brock, professor of poetry and translation, has a poem in the new issue of The Paris Review as well as two translations of Patrizia Cavalli in the same issue and several more in the current issue of The American Reader.