Angie Griffin and Julie Marie Wade met in September 2001 when they were both beginning our MA program in English. Angie now works as Technical Services and Systems Librarian for the Appalachian College Association, and Julie is an Associate Professor of English at Florida International University. They married legally in Bellingham in 2014. In June of this year, they will celebrate twenty years together.
A revised version of Ally Remy’s story “Paresthesia,” which they originally wrote for Kate Trueblood’s “Linked Collections” class, was published this year in the first issue of Catatonic Daughters Literary Magazine.
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.
Maggie James has been accepted into the Poetry MFA program at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
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.