Christa Rohrbach (MFA, 2020) received second place in Blood Tree Literature‘s first-ever hybrid contest.
MFA, 2020: Allie Spikes
Allie Spikes (MFA, 2020) had her essay “Canned” accepted for publication by River Teeth.
BA, 2018: Megan Russel
Megan Russel (BA, 2018) had her story “The Halo Effect” published in Chaleur Magazine.
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, 2017: Alynn Sobolik
Alynn Sobolik (BA, 2017) released her first full-length album, titled “Survivor”, on March 20th, 2020 and is available for streaming and downloading on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and YouTube. She has also joined the psychedelic rock band Of the Heavy Sun.
MFA, 2017: Megan Speigel
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.
MFA, 2014: Lee Olsen
Lee Olsen (MFA, 2014) has co-published Ethics After Postculturalism along with colleagues Brendan Johnston and Ann Keniston. He currently lectures at University of Nevada, Reno.
MA, 2005: Anne Greenfield
Anne Greenfield (MA, 2005) has been awarded promotion to Full Professor of English at Valdosta State University and has recently published the edited collection: Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2020).
MA, 1976: Tom Martinsen
Tom Martinsen (MA, 1976) published a poem in the literary magazine at a college where he taught and an essay in the union magazine in of which he was a member. He has also published opinion pieces in his local paper. He is currently six years into retirement and is curious about people with whom he attended graduate school at Western.
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.