News
May 11, 2009
MFA Alumni News 2009
Thanks to all the alumni who attended our "homecoming" reading by Lysley Tenorio and Mary Volmer! Here's an update with regard to SMC MFA alumni activity from the past year:JENNIFER ARCUNI is an assistant poetry editor of the literary journal, Versal, which is published out of Amsterdam. This past year, she spent two weeks in China travelling with Austrian visual artist Marget Wibmer, with whom she is collaborating on an installation. She has also been working on a translation project with an Iranian composer.
REGINA BAUCH has been working on German-English translations, writing advertisements, teaching English, working in a youth hostel, and scratching notes in her writing journal.
LILY BROWN’s third chapbook, Museum Armor, is forthcoming from Doublecross Press.
ANDREW DEMCAK's latest books of poetry are Zero Summer, published by BlazeVOX Books, and 672 Hours, published by Gold Wake Press. REBECCA GUYON just returned to California after teaching English in France. She’s published poems in Octopus, Strange Machine, Denver Quarterly, Sixth Finch, and other magazines.
JENNIFER JEAN (formerly Jennifer Perry) has published poems in City Lines Magazine and Caketrain.
The web editor for Drunken Boat, JOHN JOYNT has poems forthcoing in Poetry Flash and Big Bridge.
JOSEPH KIM’s story, "Superstar" (which was published in the Indiana Review) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he’ll be a resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY this summer.
ALLISON LANDA was awarded summer residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
RASHAAN MENESES was recently named a 2009 Finalist for the A Room of Her Own Foundation's Gift of Freedom Award.
NATHANTIEL MOHATT has published poems in Jack Magazine, A Hudson View, Strange Alaska, and the San Gabrielle Valley Quarterly Review's Annual Science Fiction Issue. He co-edits Pirate Pig Press.
KAYA OAKES nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, will be published this year by Henry Holt, and she has poems forthcoming in 11:11.
MICHAEL SIKKEMA’s poems have appeared in recent issues of Parthenon West Review, Horse Less Review, and Hangman. His first full-length collection of poems, Futuring, was BlazeVOX Books this year.
ADAM WATKINS’ poem have appeared in recent issues of Barrow Street and Denver Quarterly. He will be entering the Ph.D. program in English at Purdue University in the fall of 2009.
