Our graduates publish . . .

. . . often beginning while they are still here as students.

Current Graduate Students: JENNIFER PASHLEY, author of the short story collection States, and winner of the 2009 Mississippi Review Prize for fiction; JOHN E. SMELCER, whose novel The Great Death was released by Random House in 2008 has a new collection of poetry forthcoming from Cross Cultural Communications; while SARAH JEFFERIS's first collection of poetry Forgetting the Salt is also new in 2008.

Last Year's Crop: KATHERINE ARNOLDI, winner of the 2007 Juniper Prize for Short Fiction, for All Things Are Labor; now on a Fulbright Scholarship for work on her next book; METTA SAMA (formerly LYDIA MELVIN), author of South of Here (poems from New Issues Press); now an assistant professor at DePauw University; DEBORAH POE, Our Parenthtentical Ontology (poetry from WordTech Press, 2008)--Deborah is now an assistant professor at Pace University; GREG AMES, whose novel Buffalo Lockjaw has an April 2009 publication date; JEREMY SCHRAFFENBERGER, Saint Joe's Passion (poetry from Etruscan Press, 2008); Jeremy is now an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Northern Iowa.

Aldo Alvarez, Interesting Monsters (Graywold, 2001) named one of the best story collections of the season by Washington Post Book World;

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850 and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, a Newbery Honor Book;

Philip Brady won the Richard Snyder Publication Prize with Weal in 1999; Corrinne Clegg Hales won the same prize in 2001 with Separate Escapes; and Christine Gelineau won it in 2004 wtih Remorseless Loyalty.

Susann Cokal, Mirabilus (Putnam, 2002) and Breath and Bones (Unbridled Books, 2005).

Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Sister Chicas (Penguin, 2006; co-authored with L. Alvarado & A.H. Cardinal)

Angie Cruz, Soledad (Simon & Schuster, 2002) and Let It Rain Coffee (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Chad Davidson, Consolation Miracle, winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Prize while Chad was a grad student here; and The Last Predicta (So. Illinois Press, 2008).

Alicia Erian, The Brutal Language of Love (Random House, 2002) and her first novel, Towelhead, (Simon & Schuster, 2006) was made into a movie by Alan Ball;

Nancy Flynn, The Hours of Us (poems from Finishing Line Press, 2007); Nancy also winner of the James Jones First Novel Contest;

G.W. Hawkes, Surveyor (MacAdam/Page,2000); Gambler's Rose; Playing Out of the Deep Woods; Spies in the Blue Smoke; and Semaphore.

Anthony Lee, Martin Quinn (William Morrow, 2003).

Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us (1999 winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize); Song of Thieves (U of Pitt Press, 2003)

Tony Medina, Committed to Breathing (Third World Press, 2003); co-editor with Louis Reyes Riviera, of Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown Publishing, 2001);