Tag: 2020s alum

Lydia Hagen’s story “The Mother” recently appeared in the May 2022 issue of Apricity Press.

Anastasia Bruckner has been accepted into the prestigious Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies MPhil program at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Since graduating last year, Anastasia moved to Vail, Colorado, where she worked two freelance grant-writing jobs along with a job at a high-end bistro and also learned to ski. After moving to Dublin in the summer of 2022, she will continue the grant-writing work remotely until graduate studies become too much. She is thrilled!

Veronica Anne Francisco’s piece “To Drown” appeared in the summer 2022 issues of Solstice literary magazine. She is currently a graduate student in the Asian American Studies master’s program at San Francisco State University.

Maggie James has been accepted into the Poetry MFA program at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

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.

In the spring of 2022, Keegan Lawler published an essay in The Offing titled “Smalltown Boy.” It is about the song of the same name covered by Orville Peck and originally by Bronski Beat.