Spencer Johnson (BFA, 2017) graduated in May with his MFA in Fiction from Emerson College, and was hired on as Affiliated Faculty teaching Writing and Comp there as well.
Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff’s poetry and fiction appeared or is forthcoming in XRAY Magazine, SWIMM, Whale Road Review, Ghost Parachute, and Carve’s Ways of Looking Anthology. Her collection of short stories, The Criteria, was accepted by Unsolicited Press.
Kathryn Trueblood
Kathryn Trueblood’s newest novel, Take Daily As Needed, presents the challenges of parenting while ill with the desperado humor the subject deserves; it was published by the University of New Mexico Press in September 2019. Trueblood offered workshops in therapeutic writing at “The Examined Life” Conference at the University of Iowa, the Hugo House in Seattle, and the Lighthouse Writers Conference in Denver. Her essay, “Writing from a Pile of Shoes: Chronic Illness, Kids, and Creation,” was published by Literary Mama in November 2019, and “Honey, Don’t Break Yourself” is forthcoming in Minerva Rising #18. You can find her interviews at Invisible Not Broken Podcast, Montana Public Radio, and Writing It Real.
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.
Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff’s Your Body a Bullet, a collaborative book with alumna Elizabeth Vignali, was published by Unsolicited Press in November 2018. She presented “Immensities” at the PMLA conference, a poetry project that seeks to honor women who’ve been murdered in Whatcom County. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction appeared in various journals including SWIMM, Ghost City, Stirring, Hippocampus, Threadcount, Permafrost, A-Minor, and Contrary, received six Best of the Net nominations and two Pushcart Prize nominations, and will be included in three anthologies: Mansion, by Ghost City Press, and Ways of Looking, by Carve, and the Running Wild Novella Anthology, by Running Wild Press.
Elizabeth Colen
In Fall 2018 Black Lawrence Press published Elizabeth Colen’s sixth book, a fiction collaboration entitled True Ash. This spring she entered her third year as an editor at Tupelo Press. This summer she hopes to spend a lot of time returning to a novel project, as well as preparing for several new courses she’s developing for next year, including AIDS Literature and Black Feminist Dystopian Narratives, which was inspired by the work of Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive.