Carol Guess’s short story collection Girl Zoo was nominated for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Co-written with Aimee Parkison, Girl Zoo depicts a dystopian landscape where girls and women exist only in confinement and under surveillance. Currently collaborating with Rochelle Hurt on a persona poetry manuscript, she has new work forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Juked, Superstition Review, and Western Humanities Review. Her collaboration with Suzanne Paola, speculative fiction titled “The Desk,” will appear in Tupelo Quarterly. Guess is a member of Fiction Collective Two and will be the judge of the 2020 Utah Original Writing Competition for Short Fiction.
Christopher Patton
Christopher Patton’s book of translations from Old English, Unlikeness Is Us (Gaspereau Press) received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His book of poems, Dumuzi (Gaspereau), appeared this spring 2020.
Allison Giffen
This past year Allison Giffen has been developing a digital humanities project, co-edited with Lucia Hodgson. In fall 2019 they were pleased to launch their website Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19C Digital Humanities Project.
This website is committed to gathering and nurturing the growing community of Critical Childhood scholars. It offers several moderated blogs that offer and review new work by scholars in the field. This year, along with her co-editor, she has proposed and moderated panels, roundtables, and special sessions at the major conferences in the field: an MLA 2020 roundtable “Critical Childhood Studies and Intersectionality: The State of the Field”; a special session at C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, titled “Critical Childhood Studies and Disability: Charting Confluences” in which she was to deliver a paper “‘one yeah older’: Narratives of Failed Development and the Figure of the Black Boy in Saint Nicholas Magazine.” (postponed until fall 2020); and forthcoming in Fall, they proposed and will moderate a special seminar session at the American Studies Association titled “Caught in Time: Black Boyhood Criminalization and Revolt.”
BA, 2019: Ian Brumbaugh
Ian Brumbaugh (BA, 2019) is the Administrative Assistant in the College of Nursing Clinical Performance Lab at Seattle University.
BA, 2010: Colleen Louise Barry
Colleen Louise Barry (BA, 2010) is a writer and artist living in Los Angeles, CA, and runs the interdisciplinary publishing projects Mount Analogue and Angel Tears.
MA, 2020: Kevin Kohlhauf
Kevin Kohlhauf (MA, 2020) is going to the University of Denver to pursue a PhD in the intersection of Rhetoric & Composition and Creative Writing.
MA, 2020: Destiny Brugman
Destiny Brugman (MA, 2020) is going to Miami University of Ohio to pursue a PhD in Rhetoric & Composition.
MA, 2019: Kaidan McNamee
Kaidan McNamee (MA, 2019) is going to Indiana University to pursue a PhD in Rhetorical Theory and a program in Jewish Rhetorics.
MA, 2019: Gabe Carter
Gabe Carter (MA, 2019) is going to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to pursue a PhD in Rhetorical Theory.
MFA, 2020: Christa Rohrbach
Christa Rohrbach (MFA, 2020) received second place in Blood Tree Literature‘s first-ever hybrid contest.