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Jayne recently moved back to Bellingham after graduating in the 1990s. Since returning, she has broadened her career narrating audio books for publishers like Penguin Random House and Scholastic by recording several books by local authors at Binary Recording Studio here in town. Jayne also landed a recurring role on the new Netflix show Blockbuster, which films in Vancouver, Canada.

Lauren Peterson has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at Walla Walla University. There she will teach a range of writing and literature courses, including in her area of expertise of Victorian literature, along with courses in the honors program.

Karoline Shaufler was accepted into the Ph.D. program in English at Temple University with a teaching assistantship and a full five years of support.

Marisa Lenay Carter received a 2022 National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study the Wolof language and to intern in Dakar, Senegal. Marisa was previously awarded a Fulbright to Brazil in 2018. She is currently studying sociology and education policy at Columbia University. She started learning Wolof in the Columbia African Language Program. 

Zoe Wise was awarded Williams Achievement and Heurta Scholarships that grant her three years of full funding at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she will pursue her Juris Doctorate at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Zoe is a citizen of the Muskogee Nation and will specialize in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 2019.

Annie Ward was admitted to the MA program in Media Studies in the renowned Radio-Television-Film department of the University of Texas at Austin.

Sophie Hall has been accepted into the prestigious 2022 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. Held for three weeks in June, the renowned program provides an extended opportunity for undergraduate poets to write and be guided by established poets. Our own professor Jane Wong is among this year’s distinguished visiting poets and was herself a “Junie” back in 2006.

Zoe Maki’s piece “Nitrogen Narcosis” was accepted this year to Lost Balloon, and another piece, “When My Girlfriend’s Head Becomes an Orange in the Middle of the Night,” recently appeared in Invisible City. Both pieces were part of Zoe’s MFA thesis.

Zoe Ballering has won the 2022 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction from the University of North Texas Press. The winner of the prestigious prize receives $1000 and the publication of their collection. There Is Only Us, which began as Zoe’s MFA thesis, will appear this fall.