Publication News & Announcements: January 2024

Katherine Karch’s (WFYP, June 2018) story “A Wielder Does Not Know Regret” is included in The Best of 2023 Anthology from Metaphorosis: a Magazine of Speculative Fiction.

Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) has a new poetry collection Wild Pack of the Living, now available from Nixes Mate Books.

Leah Glennon (Fiction, June 2019) has her first published piece, a flash creative nonfiction “Daniel” in the January-February 2024 issue of Hippocampus Magazine.

Pamela Petro (Nonfiction, MFA faculty) is featured in the Spotify podcast Let’s Talk Memoir titled “The Stories Landscapes Hold and the Presence of Absence,” discussing her book The Long Field.

Shari Caplan’s (Poetry, June, 2014) first full-length collection of poetry, Exhibitionist, which was the the winner of the 2023 Paul Nemser Prize from Lily Poetry Books, is now available for preorder.

Dan Carey (Poetry, June 2021) has a review of Steven Cramer’s Departures from Rilke in Highland Park Poetry.

Rosalind Kaplan (Nonfiction, June 2020) has an essay “Like Really Crazy Hair” in The Galway Review.

Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has a poem “On Pilgrimage” in the current issue of Feral: a Journal of Poetry and Art. He also has a review of Valerie Duff’s new poetry collection Aquamarine in the Winter 2023 issue of Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices.

Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013) will be the 2024 Finnegan Lecturer at Lesley University, discussing the power of stories, particularly the power of narrative and stories for young people in her talk “Connecting Through Story.” Registration for this virtual lecture can be accessed here.

Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, MFA faculty) is featured in an article in SI Live, “Best-selling author from Staten Island writes new children’s book,” where she discussed her forthcoming picture book Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten.

D. Dina Friedman (Fiction, January 2016) has a new poetry collection Here in Sanctuary– Whirling from Querencia Press. Also, her recent novel Immigrants is featured in an article in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, “Crossing borders: Hadley author’s short story collection explores the human stories behind immigration.”

Rebecca Rolland (Fiction, June 2017) has a new novella Velocity, published by Gemma.

Candice Iloh’s (WFYP, June 2017) YA novel Salt the Water was named a 2024 Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association.

Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) has a new picture book A Terrible Place for a Nest, published by Macmillan.

Celia Jeffries’ (Fiction/Nonfiction, 2008) novel Blue Desert is now available as an audiobook from Libro.fm.

Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) is featured in an article in the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, discussing her recent nonfiction debut book A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil and Gas.

Hayley Krischer (Fiction, June 2009) has a forthcoming novel, Where Are You, Echo Blue?, from Penguin Random House, now available for preorder.

Andrea Ballou (Poetry, June 2015) has received the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Family Business, which will be published by Persea Books.

Jami Brandli (WSS, MFA faculty) is interviewed in Broadway World about the world premiere of her new show O: A Rhapsody in Divorce.

Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) has initiated a substack A Slight Case of Overthinking, which will cover “thoughts, ideas & opinions on poetry. Close readings of other people’s poems. Some light cultural criticism. Occasional reflections on Gen X existence.”

Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) has launched a substack Writing Congregation.