The latest Alumni Accolades

February 2013

  • Alumna Lisa Cattrone (poetry, '01) has been busy getting her poetry published!

    "Angels," "A Toast," and "You Will Be The Death Of Me" are all featured on The Claudias App

    "Dumb Girl" was published in Gulf Coast and Verse Daily

    Download Volume 17 of VOLT to read "Marvel"

    "In the Theater of the Myth of Felix the Cat" and "There Was This One Guy" are featured in Scythe VII Winter 2012

    Poetry forthcoming in EOAGH, West Wind Review and Interim

    and last, but certainly not least, Lisa was a finalist for the Kelsey Street Press' Firsts first book contest!

    Way to go, Lisa!

  • Creative Nonfiction graduate ('12) Rebecca Eckland has landed a spot at the Tin House Summer Workshop this July 2013 at Reed College in Portland, OR!

    Congratulations, Rebecca!

  • New episode of Break The Line, Rebecca Farivar's (poetry, 08) podcast is up featuring novelists Michael Lukas and Mary Volmer (fiction, 05) discussing short poems by Rebecca Wolff and Carol Snow. You can listen online or download it on iTunes http://rebeccafarivar.com/home/podcast/

January 2013

  • Alumnus (fiction, '97) and Advisory Board Member Josh Braff in Huffington Post.

  • Creative nonfiction graduate (2008) Vicki Hudson's essay, War Cats, was selected as a finalist in the Adanna Literary Journal’s Women and War competition.

    War Cats will be published in the upcoming Winter 2013 issue – Women and War: A Tribute to Adrienne Rich.

  • Here's more media coverage of alumna, Denise Leto's collab with Cid Pearlman & Joan Jeanrenaud.  Check out the article in San Francisco Classical Voice.

  • Alumna, Denise Leto's Collab with Cid Pearlman, "Shark," gets a write-up in the SF Chronicle.


December 2012

  • 2008 Creative Nonfiction graduate, Vicki Hudson, has been getting work done!  Check out her list of forthcoming publications:

"War Cats" submitted for the women & war issue of Adanna Literary Magazine

"Dr. Dominatrix" in Bluestem Literary Magazine forthcoming in the Feb-March issue

Poem "Stone Upon my Heart" and short story "Captain Harper Says Goodbye" forthcoming in Bay Laurel Literary Magazine

CONGRATULATIONS on the success, Vicki!

  • Rebecca Eckland (creative nonfiction, '12) just had an article published by the US Master's Swimming Organization-- a nation-wide organization with 50,000 members of adult swimmers. Check out "A Runner's Guide to Swimming."   Great work, Rebecca!

  • Fiction graduate ('10) Rosa del Duca has just landed a prestigious San Francisco Writer's Grotto fellowship!  During the 6-month fellowship Rosa will be working on her memoir based on her time in the National Guard, and her journey toward declaring herself a conscientious objector.

    Congratulations, Rosa!

November 2012

  • Alumnus, Mike Sikkema has new poems in The Cultural Society, along with a review of alumna, Sally Delehant's, book A Real Time of It. Check it out:http://www.culturalsociety.org/
 
  • 2012 creative nonfiction graduate, Vanessa Stewart landed a Saint Mary's January term lectureship for 2013!  She'll be teaching "Harry Potter's Literary Merit." Congratulations Vanessa!
 
  • 2000 graduate in poetry, Gabriel Gomez has published his second book of poetry, The Seed Bank out on Mouthfeel Press. 

    Gabe's first book of poetry, The Outer Bands was published in 2007 by the University of Notre Dame Press and was the winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize.

    He was also  recently appointed to serve on the Santa Fe Arts Commission.

    What a list of great accomplishments!  Congratulations on the success, Gabe!


 
 
 
  • Bret Shepard (poetry, '06) is making news again!  His poem, Living as Magnets, is in the latest issue of FIELD out of Oberlin College Press.  Congrats, Bret!
 
  • Alumna poet Denise Leto collaborates on the performance "Your Body Is Not a Shark"! Congratulations Denise!

     
  • 2009 poetry graduate, Bret Shepard has two poems in ucity review.  Check out Water Raining and Eco.  Congrats Bret!

  • Faculty member and MFA graduate Rashaan Alexis Meneses's (fiction, '06) work and talent have been recognized with two prestigious writing residencies, at the National Medal of Arts-winning MacDowell Arts Colony and at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland.  Congrats!

October 2012

  • 2006 poetry alum Michael Sikkema is making news!
    Check out his book of poetry, Futuring out from Blaze Vox Publishing.
    He also has two chapbooks out: Wander Room out from Grey Book Press and May Apple Deep out from Horse Less Press. 
    And he's collaborated on a chapbook with Jen Tynes in Black Warrior Review, called Autogeography.
    Way to go, Michael!
  • Valyntina Grenier (poetry, '08) recites her poetry in Arroyo Chico! 
  • Check out these new poems in tuxedoLIT from alumna, Jennifer Arcuni (poetry, '99)!
  • Joshua Braff with the latest on baseball's post season and the election at Huffington Post.
  • Kaya Oakes with expcerpts from Radical Reinvention online at The Nervous Breakdown.
  • The Ventura County Star on our alumna, Teresa Bonham's new mystery, SPI: The Case of the Dark Shadow, for young adults
  • Alumna, Angela Hume has poems up at Real Poetik from her chapbook The Middle, forthcoming from Omnidawn
    http://www.realpoetik.org/
  • Poetry alumna Carrie Osborne is reading at Bica Coffeehouse in Oakland on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Underpass Reading Series.
  • Poetry alum Denise Leto ('99) is making news again! Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects are proud to announce the world premiere of Your Body Is Not a Shark, a performance piece encompassing dance, live music, and sound collage.  Text by Denise Leto.  Check out the performance scheduled in January 2013!
     
  • Alumna Janet W. Hardy has published a new memoir: "Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals."
Celebrate the publication on Saturday, October 20 at Wicked Grounds in SF, where Janet will answer questions, sign copies, and discuss the emerging sexual orientations of "girlfag" and "guydyke." Congratulations, Janet!
 
  • Alumnus, A.E. Watkins (poetry, '07)  has a poem featured on Verse Daily today Thursday, October 4, 2012.

  • Michael Gardner (nonfiction, 2005) has published a cook book, At Home with May and Axel Vervoodt: Recipes for Every Season. It is available on Amazon, check it out!

  • In addition to having a panel accepted for AWP 2013 titled "Lessons from the Field: Poetry Festivals and Community Building," Jennifer Jean (poetry, '01) has had several publications over the past year including:

    Her third chapbook, The Archivist, with Big Table Publishing in November 2011
    Mass Poetry: article “Eco Poetry: Poems on Purpose (an exploration). July 2012.
    Plath Profiles: a Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies: poem “Her Children.” June 2012.
    Lyre Lyre: audio poem “The Air” in April 2012
    Soul-Lit: poems “Creation Story,” “Beginning of the Fall, part 1,” and “Beginning of the Fall, part 2.” March 2012.
    The Joy Ride; poem “Matins” in October 2011.
    Tidal Basin Review; poems “Passing Time” and “The Prisoner.”
    Poets/Artists; poem “Getting to Know You,” July 2011.
    VOX MOM; article “Literary Citizenship” includes poem “Trust.”  March 2011

Way to go, Jennifer Jean!  You're an inspiration!

  • Alumni Rebecca Farivar (new poems), Angela Hume (book review), and Sara Mumolo (poem-film are pubilshed in this month's issue of the The Volta.

September 2012

  • Denise Leto (poetry, '99) will read and discuss her poetry at the Poetry Center at SFSU on Thursday, September 27 at 4:30p. 

  • Lindsey Thordarson's (fiction, '11) short story, "What Will Do", was published in the Spring 2012 issue of Zyzzyva (Issue No. 94). 

    Check out her reading at the The Booksmith to celebrate the release of the issue.

  • Kristen Hanlon interviews Annette Sandoval

  • Just Kibbe's gallery exhibition "POTENT PLAY: Provoking An Adventurous Spirit" will open on November 24, 2012 and run through December 8, 2012.
    Scenic Drive Gallery 125 W. Scenic Drive, Monrovia CA 91016

August 2012

  • T.J. Bonham's new book SPI: The Case of the Dark Shadow is out now from Schiffer Publishing. 

    T.J. Bonham is a professor of English at Oxnard College. She has an MFA from St. Mary's College of California and currently resides in Southern California, which has become her inspiration for (SPI) Shadow Paranormal Investigators.

  • A.E. Watkins' new collection of poems, Dear, Companion, is now out from Dream Horse Press!
  • Alumna, Rebecca Farivar, launches her new podcast Break the Line.  She is reading at Studio One Reading Series on Friday, August 3rd at 7:30pm.

July 2012

June 2012

  • Kaya Oakes publishes a new work of creative nonfiction, Radical Reinvention. Find out more about the book and events here. Check out this starred review from Publisher's Weekly: “This memoir tells the story of this unlikely convert—as she sees herself—in all its gory detail. Oakes doesn’t mince words or clean up her language, and doubt, frustration, and anger are frequent companions on her journey. Oakes not only treats readers to gorgeous prose, but manages to provide an overview and history of the best of the Catholic faith, without losing momentum.” Starred review, Publisher’s Weekly

May 2012

Our annual Alumni Updates!  Every May we reach out to our Alumni to find out about their latest publications.  Enjoy!

Teresa Bonham ('03 Poetry) is a tenured professor of English at Oxnard College and her first book, The Case of the Shadow is going to be released in the fall.

Lily Brown (’07 Poetry) was published in the Boston Review 2012 National Poetry Month Feature.  She was the recipient of the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Sally Delehant’s (’09 Poetry) first book of poetry, A Real Time of It, will be published by the Cultural Society this summer.

Paul Ebenkamp ('09 Poetry) wrote and directed "You Have To Take Care Of My Work Together" for Small Press Traffic's Poets Theater, January 2012; has published poems in the past year in Try! and Mrs. Maybe; is co-editor of Early Women Modernists, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press, April 2013; co-hosts the Woolsey Heights reading series at his home in Berkeley; and recently joined Saint Mary's staff as Program Coordinator for the January Term.  

 Andrew Demcak (’97 Poetry) has recently published poems at Spork Press and published an interview at Literary Magpie. His poetry collection Night Chant (Lethe Press), was reviewed by Steve Fellner at Pansy Poetics.

Jenny Drai (’06 Poetry) was finalist in the Sawtooth Prize from Ahsahta Press and a semifinalist in the First/Second Book Prize from Omnidawn.  Recently, my poetry has appeared in Aesthetix, Cutlass, and Parthenon West Review.

Michael Gardner (’05 Creative Nonfiction) is the writer and contributor to a lifestyle and cook book, The Tables of May and Axel Vervoordt: A Guide to Entertaining and Seasonal Recipes published by   Flammarion in Paris, which  will be published in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy and the U.S this September.

 Janet Hardy’s (’08 Creative Nonfiction) Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals is coming out in September from Beyond Binary Books. www.girlfagthebook.com.

Alisa Heinzman ('10 Poetry) received an MFA in Poetry from Saint Mary's College of California and a BA in English and French from the University of Nebraska. She co-publishes the chapbook journal Calaveras with Sara Mumolo and is an Editor for Octopus Books. She currently lives in Chicago where she works for a translation company.

Allison Landa (’06 Fiction) was a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE.  She had stories published in Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Prick of the Spindle, and Swill Magazine. I'll be reading at Why There are Words, a Sausalito reading series, on June 14.

Brett Fletcher Lauer (’07 Poetry) is the managing director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor at A Public Space. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper’s, jubilat, Tin House and elsewhere. His first book of poems, A Hotel in Belgium, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2014.

 Jennifer Jean ( ’01 Poetry) is the author of The Archivist, a poetry chapbook published by Big Table Publishing Co. in November 2011.  She is a committee member and organizer of the 4th Annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival that occurred in April, 2012.  She is a feature writer for Art Throb magazine and is a adjunct Professor at Salem State University.

Angela Hume Lewandowski (’08 Poetry) was a semifinalist for the 2012 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Recently she saw the publication of her article "(Rescuing) Hegel's Magical Thinking" in the inaugural issue of the journal Eventual Aesthetics and her piece "Imagining Ecopoetics: An Interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, and Jonathan Skinner" is forthcoming in the journal /ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment/. Currently she is working to organize the 2013 Conference on Ecopoetics (Feb. 22-24, Berkeley, CA)

Rashaan A. Meneses (’06 Fiction) is an adjunct faculty member in Liberal & Civic Studies Program at Saint Mary's College.  She was nominated for a Sundress Best of the Net Prize. Her essay "Barbie’s Gotta Work” was published by Doveglion Press. Her short story “Hummingbird in Hand" was published in 8th issue of Kurungabaa.

Rusty Morrison’s (‘99 Poetry) After Urgency (Tupelo) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly.  Her essay Poetry and Gravity was recently published in Kenyon Review's print issue, and in her recent interview for Kenyon Review she discussed her time in the Saint Mary’s MFA Program.  Morrison is the Co-Publisher of Omnidawn.

Gabrielle Myers’ (’09 Poetry) essay “'Spread Like a Veil on a Rock’: Septimus and the Trench Poets of World War I” appeared in English, a journal published by Oxford University Press in the Fall 2011.  Her poem“Quality Control,” appeared in San Francisco Public Press in the Spring of 2011. In Nebo's Winter 2012 edition, the poem "On Ayako Iino’s ‘Pa Amb Tomàquet’" was published.

Risa Nye (’11 Creative Nonfiction) is a contributing writer for Hippocampus Magazine and writes articles on the craft of nonfiction. Her essays are recently published in Skirt! Magazine, You and Me Magazine, and Caught in the Carousel.

 Kaya Oakes' (’97 Poetry) memoir, Radical Reinvention, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. Her previous books are Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture and Telegraph. She teaches composition, research, narrative journalism and creative nonfiction at UC Berkeley. 

 

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