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Claude Atcho’s Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just was published this year by Brazos Press. Claude is a teacher and the pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Charlottesville, VA. Each chapter of his book takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Richard Wright’s Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain.

Yousef Abu-Ulbeh was selected to participate in the March 2022 Cinephilia Film Development Workroom. Cinephilia is a New York-based film production company, talent incubator, and consulting agency that champions the next generation of Middle Eastern and African storytellers and filmmakers. Yousef is a Palestinian American writer and public-school educator and currently teaches middle school language arts in Tacoma.

Mikayla Lawrence, who was formerly Assistant Production Editor at Page Street Publishing, has joined HarperCollins Children’s Books as Production Editor.

Colleen Louise Barry’s debut book of poems, Colleen, appeared this year from After Hours Editions. In addition to writing, she runs the interdisciplinary publishing projects Mount Analogue and Angel Tears and teaches visual art at Westside Middle School in Seattle.

Ari Koontz has accepted a fully funded offer to study at Northern Michigan University, which they’ve heard described as “a very queer little program in the woods.” They’ll spend three years there exploring hybrid genre writing toward their MFA and trying out teaching as a potential career path.

 

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. 

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.