JUST PUBLISHED

Helen Williams Akinc, MBA '82 wrote The Praeger Handbook for College Parents (Praeger, 2009). In this book, a veteran college dean gives parents of college students practical guidance to navigate bureaucracies and policies in order to support their student's academic career.

Brian Clements '88, MA '90, PhD '93 produced an anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009). He wrote two poetry books Disappointed Psalms (Meritage Press, 2008) and And How to End It (Quale Press, 2008). He is also the editor of the literary journal Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics.

Abidin Kusno '93, PhD '98 is the author of The Appearances of Memory (Duke University Press, 2010). He is associate professor at the Institute of Asian Research and faculty associate of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture.

Beth N. Riley '99 is co-author of Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care (Columbia University Press, 2010). She is cofounder of BCFOCUS, a multiagency collaboration working with foster and adoptive families.