Christopher Patton’s book of translations from Old English, Unlikeness Is Us (Gaspereau Press) received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His book of poems, Dumuzi (Gaspereau), appeared this spring 2020.
BA, 2006: Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts (BA, 2006) has just published his book of poetry, A River Once More. (For those wishing to catch up with Matt and his writing, here is a link: http://moonpathpress.com/MatthewCampbellRoberts.htm)
BA, 2006: Matthew Campell Roberts
Matthew Campell Roberts (BA, 2006) has published his first collection of poetry, A River Once More, through MoonPass Press. He currently teaches at Everett Community College.
Ely Shipley
Ely Shipley’s second full-length book Some Animal won the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry, and has received positive reviews in Publishers Weekly, DIAGRAM, Ocean State Review, and Lambda Literary Review. Publishers Weekly calls it a “riveting exploration of what it means to come of age in a genderqueer body” that is “steeped in Anglo-American poetry and literary theory” and claims that “what sets this book apart is its focused attention to the experience of defying the gender binary, of being in a body that intimates and strangers alike are bent on denying…Shipley’s book is one of hard truths, lovingly rendered.” Some Animal was listed as one of the best poetry collections of 2018 by Entropy, as well as poet CA Conrad. Ely has been having a blast teaching poetry and multigenre workshops, as well as a course on Anne Carson.
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.
Brenda Miller
Brenda Miller, with her colleague Suzanne Paola, has been hard at work on the updates for the Third Edition of Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, scheduled for release this summer. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such venues as Tupelo Quarterly, Jet Fuel Review (with alum Julie Marie Wade), and Psaltery & Lyre (edited by alum Dayna Patterson). Brenda’s essay “The Shape of Emptiness,” originally published in Brevity, received recognition as a “Notable Essay of 2018” in Best American Essays. Her article “The Fine Art of Containment in Creative Nonfiction” appeared in the March issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. In her teaching, she developed a new course focused solely on “Hermit Crab Essays” for ENG 458: Topics in Nonfiction Writing, and a graduate course (ENG 598) exploring the assumptions and practices of creative writing pedagogy.
Jane Wong
Jane Wong’s second book of poems, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2021. Recently, her essays and poems have appeared in places such as POETRY, Orion, New England Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Georgia Review, and others. She has a forthcoming piece in The Best American Non-required Reading 2019 anthology. This summer, she will be busy writing at three residencies, including: Jentel, SAFTA Farms, and Blackacre as Sarabande’s Writer-in-Residence. Check out her solo exhibit at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle (running from June 1st-September 1st) entitled “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly.
BA, 2000: Heather June Gibbons
Heather June Gibbons (BA, 2000) published, though The University of Utah Press, the poetry book Her Mouth as Souvenir which was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize.
MA, 1981: Sam Green
Sam Green (MA, 1981) had six poems published in Prairie Schooner Volume 93, Issue 1.
BA, 1980: Dion Lissner O’Reilly
Dion Lissner O’Reilly (BA, 1980) has poetry appearing or forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Sugar House Review, The Sun, Rattle, Spillway, New Letters, Canary, and a variety of other journals and anthologies, including an upcoming Lambda Literary Anthology. Her work has been nominated for Pushcarts, the Intro Journals Project, and was sent to the judges of The Folio Literary Journal Poetry Contest and the Peseroff Prize.