Megan Speigel (MFA, 2017) had a chapbook, Luminance, published by Dancing Girl Press in October 2019, and a hybrid essay published in Inverted Syntax print issue 2, February 2020.
MA, 2011: Tanya Perkins
Tanya Perkins (MA, 2011) earned her MFA at Murray State and is now the Chair of the English Department at Indiana University East. In 2018 she published a chapbook through WTAW Press as well as numerous short stories and pieces on teaching writing. Her current research focuses on creative writing pedagogy and program assessment.
Dayna Patterson
Dayna Patterson’s chapbook, Titania in Yellow, is forthcoming in 2019 (Porkbelly Press), and her full-length collection of lyric essays and poetry, If Mother Braids a Waterfall, will meet the world in 2020 (Signature Books). She recently gave a reading in Salt Lake City sponsored by the Sunstone Foundation. This past year, she received three Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for Best of the Net. She won second place in the Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest for her piece “Fledge.” Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, North American Review, Cave Wall, and others. She was awarded a 2019 SAF Mineral School Fellowship, and she continues her work as Editor-in-Chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online literary journal that makes its home at the intersection of faith and doubt.