Dian Lissner (BA, 1980) aka Dion O’Reilly published a book of poetry in February of 2020, Ghost Dogs, which was the winner of the Independent Press award for poetry, the Dragonfly award for poetry, the Pinnacle Achievement Award for Poetry, an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Award, and took third place in the Royal Dragonfly Book Award.
Carol Guess
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.