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Winter 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Asha Dore<\/strong> wrote “On Lidia Yuknavitch\u2019s ‘Anti-Memoir’\u00a0The Chronology of Water<\/em>“<\/a> for LitHub<\/em> and has an essay on shoulder pain<\/a> in The Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA director\u00a0Nick Neely<\/strong>\u00a0recently\u00a0wrote about groundhogs<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Orion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Jan Rubin<\/strong> has two poems<\/a> in the “Careful\/Care-full Collaboration” issue of About Place Journal. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member\u00a0Joe Wilkins<\/strong>\u2019s fifth poetry collection\u00a0Pastoral, 1994<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was named a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong>‘s debut novel Appraisal<\/em>s<\/a> has a publication date: August 4, 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student\u00a0Lindsay Costello<\/strong>\u00a0reviewed Oregon Contemporary\u2019s show\u00a0A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin<\/em><\/a>\u00a0among other recent writing for\u00a0Portland Mercury.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Laura Da’<\/strong> has a new book of poems out, Severalty<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA alum Christopher Densmore<\/strong> recently finished his season as the Marjory Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident<\/a> on the Rogue River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> was selected as 2025 Oregon Literary Fellow. See this Q & A with her<\/a> about the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Kristi Helgeson<\/strong> had three ekphrastic poems published by the Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate Program to accompany art at the Bainbridge Public Library: “Displacement<\/a>,” “Knitting Spies<\/a>,” and “Nurse Log<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Christopher Kondrich<\/strong> has a new poem “For Now” in The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member\u00a0Molly Reid<\/strong>\u00a0has a \u00a0story \u201cThe Dans\u201d in the fall issue of the\u00a0New Ohio Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Chelsey Waters <\/strong>has a story “Second Thoughts” in Gramercy Review<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Christopher Densmore<\/strong>‘s essay  \u201cOn the Importance of Blueberries,\u201d<\/a> part of his MFA thesis, was just published in Iowa State\u2019s Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA Alum Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> has a new poem<\/a> out in Tiny Seed Literary Journal. <\/em>Her most recent collection These Hollowed Bones<\/em> was also just reviewed in <\/a>Tint Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA alum Russell James<\/strong>‘s feature article \u201cHearts Wide Open: Autistic angling and the guide experience\u201d was published recently in Trout Unlimited\u2019s Trout Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson<\/strong>‘s second essay collection the The Fire Trees <\/em>will be out from punctum books<\/a> in 2026. Stay tuned for the pub date. She also recently became an Assistant Nonfiction Editor for Terrain.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA director Nick Neely<\/strong> has an essay \u201cThe Redwood Roads\u201d<\/a> in the November\/December issue of the travel magazine WildSam<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Alex Ortega<\/strong> has started in the English PhD program with a specialization in Creative Writing at the University of Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Janice Rubin<\/strong> recently had four poems that she drafted in program accepted for the anthology All the Women Came & Sang<\/em>from Wyld Syde Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Eliot Treichel<\/strong>‘s story \u201cCaves\u201d<\/a> was published last year in Unearthed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Chelsey Waters<\/strong>‘s story \u201cSecond Chances\u201d was short-listed for the Letter Review Prize<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong> has new stories and poems in The Missouri Review, The Florida Review<\/em>, and the anthology A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia. <\/em>But the big news is his fifth poetry collection Pastoral, 1994<\/em><\/a> <\/em>is available for pre-order from River River Books. Congrats, Joe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> has a new poem \u201cTime Allows\u201d in the latest issue of Cathexis<\/em><\/a> and three bird poems in Humans & Nature<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member Christopher Kondrich<\/strong> has a new poem, \u201cExplosives, Once Signaled,\u201d in Image<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Russell James<\/strong> just had a story, \u201cThe Cape,\u201d accepted by the environmental literary magazine The Hopper<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson<\/strong> has a new essay in Psyche<\/em><\/a> about the queer ecology of Nan Shepherd\u2019s book The Living Mountain<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Kathryn Miles<\/strong> recently inked another deal with Algonquin for her next book, Tangled: The Battle to Save the Planet\u2019s Most Endangered Species<\/em>. Bravo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Alexander Ortega<\/strong> has a new piece \u201cLa Llorona Got Wise\u201d in Volume 29 of Quarter After Eight<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong> is teaching a one-day virtual workshop on May 14 for Hugo House called \u201cThe Hardest Parts: Writing Beginnings & Endings.\u201d<\/a> Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EOU MFA Program<\/strong> really showed up in force at AWP in Seattle in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong> has a short essay \u201cOn Finding a Way Through the Wilderness<\/a>\u201d in Sierra Magazine<\/em> and a longer one, \u201cMaking Our Own Weather,\u201d<\/a> in Asterix Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Phil Carson<\/strong>‘s poem \u201cThe Simple Truth\u201d<\/a> was published in Half and One.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Christopher Densmore<\/strong> was the recipient of the MFA program\u2019s Thomas Madden Scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Amelia D\u00ed<\/strong>az Ettinger<\/strong> has three poems (and spoken recordings of them) in the February issue of the South Florida Poetry Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA alum Leah Hedberg<\/strong> has a lyrical essay on the film <\/a>Honeyland<\/em><\/a> in the journal Bright Wall \/ Dark Room<\/em>. She drafted the piece in MFA faculty member Christoper Kondrich\u2019s class, \u201cFilms of Ecology & Place\u201d and sends thanks to him and the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Russell James<\/strong> has an essay \u201cOkeus Gets the Last World\u201d<\/a> was published by The <\/em>College Contemporary. <\/em>He drafted it in MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson\u2019s fall class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson<\/strong> has a new short essay \u201cParticles: A Love Story\u201d<\/a> in the journal Sweet: A Literary Confection<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Nick Neely<\/strong> has a short piece on the Cassia crossbill in the new anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Kathryn Miles<\/strong> broke a story about a discovered plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I for <\/a>National Geographic<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(subscribers only), <\/em>and also has a feature in Downeast <\/em>magazine about the \u201ccanceling\u201d of Maine lobster<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong>‘s story collection, Site Fidelity<\/em>, recently won the High Plains Book Award<\/a> in Fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Christopher Kondrich<\/strong> has a poem \u201cEmpty Spaces\u201d<\/a> in The New York Review of Books.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Kathryrn Miles<\/strong>‘s book Trailed<\/em> was listed by Slate<\/em> as one of \u201cThe 10 Best Audiobooks of the Year\u201d<\/a> and by The New York Times<\/em> as among \u201cThe Best True Crime of 2022<\/a>\u201d: \u201cMiles not only solves the case, she shines a light on the crime rate in the country\u2019s national parks. \u2018Although the F.B.I. does not keep statistics on gender and backcountry crime, my own archival research finds that the majority of reported murder and rape victims in our national wilderness areas are female,\u2019 Miles writes. It\u2019s an important finding, one that raises a much bigger question: Who gets to enjoy nature in safety?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Colette Marie<\/strong> has a searing new poem, \u201cFive Months After My First Husband\u2019s Death,\u201d<\/a> in The Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson<\/strong> just signed a contract with punctum books<\/a> for her second essay collection, The Fire Trees<\/em>, which will explore sense experience, queer ecology, intimacy, sexuality, and bodies through autobiography, archival collage, and reimagined histories. She anticipates it will be out in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA Alum Alex Ortega<\/strong> taught a four-week \u201cFraming Flash Fiction\u201d workshop for Fishtrap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA Alum Chelsey Waters<\/strong>‘s story \u201cBeneath Her Breath\u201d<\/a> was published in The Hopper<\/em> (with a nice illustration of a sturgeon) and nominated for inclusion in the \u201cBest of the Net\u201d anthology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Jodi Varon<\/strong>‘s book Your Eyes Will Be My Window <\/em>was accepted by the University of Georgia Press for its Crux Series in Literary Nonfiction, with an expected publication date in 2023. About the book: \u201cTwice erased in the wreckage of WWII Ukraine, the search for Esta Plat creates a road-map to a vanished world. Weighing faith against skepticism, reportage against memory, Your Eyes Will Be My Window<\/em> is one woman’s attempt to reimagine the legacy of genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We warmly welcome incoming MFA students Charley Agron, Shelley Baumgarten, Janel Crouch, Brittney Heitz-Garcia, Christina O\u2019Bryan, Russell James, <\/strong>and August Stadtfield<\/strong>! We look forward to listing your successes here in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong> is the recipient of a 2022 Whiting Award.<\/a> Maggie Nelson had this to say, in part, about Claire\u2019s work at the ceremony in New York City on April 6: \u201cA deep anthropologist and a finely restrained rhetorician, Boyles captures the affinities and frictions between those who have been made by that once, and still sometimes, wild place [the American West].\u201d Site Fidelity<\/em> was also named a finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards in Fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member James Crews<\/strong> was just profiled, along with his new anthology The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy,<\/em> <\/em>in The<\/em> Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> and MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong>‘s latest books were both glowingly reviewed in The Oregonian<\/em><\/a> <\/em>for a National Poetry Month feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Megan Kruse<\/strong> recently completed an inaugural residency at the Carolyn Moore House, a program hosted by Portland Community College. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Kathyrn Miles<\/strong> published Trailed: One Woman\u2019s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders<\/em>. Trailed<\/em> has received great reviews in places includiing The Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>, Outside<\/em><\/a>, and Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a> (starred review). Check out this interview with her in Orion<\/em><\/a>. She also published a long feature on off-shore wind turbines in Audubon<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Alexander Ortega<\/strong>‘s lyric short story “Maroons” was a finalist for the Iowa Review<\/em> Award in Fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Chelsey Waters<\/strong>‘s essay \u201cBetweenness\u201d took second place in Deep Wild Journal<\/em>\u2019s graduate student essay contest<\/a> and appeared in the print magazine. She originally drafted a version of the piece in a workshop with MFA faculty member Nick Neely. Chelsey also represented the MFA program in the Regional MFA Reading at the Get Lit! Festival, reading an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, and you can watch the recording here<\/a> (MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong> introduces her at the 28-minute mark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong> has a new poem<\/a>, \u201cThe Great Fact Was the Land Itself,\u201d in Juxtaprose<\/em>; a recent essay in The Sun<\/em><\/a>, \u201cOld Friend”; and delivered the Wallace Stegner Lecture (video)<\/a> at Lewis-Clark State College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Winter 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Jennifer Boyden<\/strong>‘s poetry manuscript We Can\u2019t Tell If the Constellations Love Us<\/em> was awarded the 42 Miles Poetry Press Award<\/a>. It will be published in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong>‘s Site Fidelity<\/em> was longlisted for the 2022 PEN America\/Robert W. Bingham Prize<\/a> for Debut Short Story Collections, and was also recently recommended by Michelle Nijhuis in High Country News<\/em><\/a>. Claire also co-wrote two movies that aired as part of the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas line-up: <\/em>“Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday”<\/a> which premiered on December 5; and “Sister Swap: Christmas in the City”<\/a>, which premiered December 12.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member Abigail Chabitnoy<\/strong>‘s second book of poetry, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful<\/em>, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in Fall 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA Alum Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> has a story, \u201cYou Look Pretty With Your Mouth Shut,\u201d in Calyx<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>and recent poems like \u201cClark\u2019s nutcracker\u201d<\/a> in The Amethyst Review, <\/em>Somos en Escrito,<\/em> <\/em>Willawa Journal<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>and <\/em>Hare’s Paw Journal.<\/em><\/a> <\/em>Her latest book Learning to Love a Western Sky <\/em>was also reviewed by Sundress Publications<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA alum Liz Asch Greenhill<\/strong> taught a two-part class at Corporeal Writing in February, \u201cEmbodied Metaphors: Earth Based Writing Informed by Eastern Medicine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Alexander Ortega<\/strong> was selected as a 2022 Fishtrap Fellow<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Kathyrn Miles<\/strong>‘s forthcoming book, Trailed: One Woman\u2019s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders<\/em><\/a>, due out May 3, was optioned by Muse Entertainment for a streaming series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Nick Neely<\/strong> was selected for the 2022 City of Rocks Reserve<\/a> Artist-in-Residency in Idaho along with his wife, the painter Sarah Bird. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FALL 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Kay Anderson<\/strong>, MFA ’17, has a new poem \u201cDigression\u201d in Heron Tree<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Claire Boyles<\/strong><\/strong>\u2019s debut book Site Fidelity<\/em> was included on Outside <\/em>Magazine\u2019s list of “20 Essential Works of Climate Fiction.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Abigail Chabitnoy\u2019s<\/strong> first book How to Dress a Fish<\/em> was recommended in Orion<\/em> alongside her own recommendation<\/a> of Allison Adelle Hedge Coke\u2019s new book Look at this Blue<\/em> in a poetry feature for National Native American Heritage Month.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member James Crews<\/strong>\u2019s anthology How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope<\/em><\/a> made the American Booksellers Association Indie Poetry Bestseller List<\/a> in September, keeping company with the likes of Mary Oliver, Rupi Kaur, and Natalie Diaz. Also check out his appearances on the podcast Author, Can I Ask You?<\/em><\/a> and in an episode of Emerging Form<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>a podcast about the creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Melissa Matthewson<\/strong> has a new essay in LitHub,<\/em> <\/em>\u201cA Revolution in Creativity: Slow Writing.\u201d<\/a> \u201cIt might help MFA students!\u201d she writes. \u201cI know it helped me to write it.\u201d Dare we say this piece will help you whoever and wherever you are. She also interviewed Korean American writer Janice Lee<\/a> for The Rumpus<\/em> and has a new short essay \u201cEarth and Motherhood\u201d<\/a> in Oregon Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Nick Neely<\/strong>\u2019s 2016 essay \u201cStill Hunt\u201d<\/a> was included in the just-out anthology This Impermanent Earth<\/em><\/a>: Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Alexander Ortega<\/strong> is on a roll: He is the recipient of the MFA program\u2019s 2021 Thomas Madden Scholarship, and the short story featured in his application, \u201cGramita\u2019s House,\u201d<\/a> was published in the fall issue of Salt Lake City\u2019s Quarterly West.<\/em> His flash story \u201cA Real Man\u201d was included in the anthology Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest<\/em><\/a>, edited by Sharma Shields and Maya Jewell Zeller and out now <\/em>from Scablands Books. And that story along with two other flash pieces, \u201cMegayega!\u201d and \u201cDe Pedrito, desde las Nubes,” are in Volume 6 of Moss Lit<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong> was featured earlier this year on the Freeflow Podcast<\/a>, which \u201ctakes today\u2019s best storytellers, artists, and leaders outside and into their favorite wild places, to talk about craft, conservation, and the creative life.\u201d He also has a new short essay \u201cBroken Badlands\u201d<\/a> in Orion<\/em> and three new poems in Contrary<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPRING 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Kay Anderson<\/strong>, MFA ’17, has a new poem, \u201cThe Problem,\u201d<\/a>  in Heron Tree Magazine<\/em> and another, \u201cThe Shine of It,\u201d<\/a> in Trouvaille Review<\/em>. A review of her new book<\/a>, Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast<\/em>, in the current issue of Hash Journal.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA director David Axelrod<\/strong> has a new poem, \u201cThere Are Things More Important Than Living,\u201d<\/a> in Terrain.org<\/em>\u2019s Letter to America series. And extra kudos to David for the news that his next book of poetry, Years Beyond the River, <\/em>is forthcoming from Terrapin Books<\/a> in the fall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> has a new short story, \u201cA Girl Like Me,\u201d<\/a> in The Ice Colony.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Kyle Rowland<\/strong> has a new flash piece, \u201cHaunt,\u201d<\/a> in the journal Coffin Bell<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong>‘s latest poetry collection Thieve<\/em> (Lynx House Press) is a finalist for the Stafford\/Hall Award for Poetry<\/a> among the Oregon Book Awards. He is also interviewed in Oregon ArtsWatch<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WINTER 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Kay Anderson<\/strong>, MFA ’17,<\/strong> has a book, Please Plant This Book Coast to Coast<\/a><\/em>, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Says Erica Bodwell, author of Crown Wild: <\/em> \u201cIn this startling and fascinating book, Susan Kay Anderson takes the reader on a journey from California to Oaxaca to Hawaii, through the life and words of Virginia Brautigan Aste\u2013married to Richard Brautigan for a decade\u2013in a series of interviews that reveal Ms. Aste\u2019s courage, creativity and sheer survival instinct.\u201d Susan also has recent poems in Anti-Heroin Chic, <\/em>Indolent Books<\/em><\/a>, Madness Muse, <\/em>Gnashing Teeth Publishing<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Sleet Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Voice Lux Journal, <\/em>and <\/em>Touraville Review<\/em><\/a>. And she was also recently interviewed by Jenee Rodriquez for The Silent World In Her Vase<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA director David Axelrod<\/strong>‘s work has recently appeared in About Place<\/em>, Bellingham Review<\/em>, The Meadow<\/em>, and Split Rock Review<\/em>; and is forthcoming in Weber: The Contemporary West,<\/em> saltfront: studies in human habit(at),<\/em> and Terrain.org<\/em>\u2019s Letters to America series.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MFA faculty member James Crews<\/strong> is rocking it with recent poems in The Sun<\/em><\/a>, The New York Times Magazine<\/em><\/a>, and Ted Kooser\u2019s American Life in Poetry <\/em>(two poems, \u201cWinter Morning\u201d<\/a> and \u201cClearly\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kasey Croxford-Zmrhal<\/strong>, BA \u201921, just had her first short story \u201cTorn Suede\u201d<\/a> published in Big Whoopie Deal<\/em>. We\u2019re thrilled also that Kasey will enroll in EOU\u2019s MFA program this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asha Dore<\/strong>, MFA \u201916, has forthcoming poems in Sweet: A Literary Confection<\/em>, WhiskeyTit<\/em>, and the Heavy Feather Review.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Amelia D\u00edaz Ettinger<\/strong> published a book of poems, Learning to Love the Western Sky<\/em><\/a> with Airlie Press in the fall.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Asch<\/strong> Greenhill, <\/strong>MFA \u201916, has created a new podcast called Bodyland: Metaphor Medicine<\/em><\/a>. She writes, \u201cEssentially it\u2019s a collection of guided visualizations. Each one is based on Surrealist art and Chinese Medicine. They are meant to be listened to a la carte as restorative care during meditation time, on subway or bus commutes, or during bouts of insomnia.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Nick Neely<\/strong> talks about (and reads the prologue of) his second book Alta California<\/em><\/a> in a new episode of the podcast A Book and its Author.<\/em> He also has an extremely short capsule review in Ampersand Magazine<\/em><\/a> of the film The Dark Divide<\/em>, which is based on Robert Michael Pyle\u2019s book Where Bigfoot Walks<\/em> (he recommends this sometimes goofy but beautiful flick).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Parker<\/strong>, MFA \u201916, has new work in bioStories<\/em><\/a> <\/em>and forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Schuylkill Valley Journal, <\/em>and Serotonin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Kyle Rowland<\/strong> recently published a poem in Issue 10 of Phantom Drift<\/em><\/a>. He says, \u201cI got to do a reading with them back in November, so I can vouch that [the journal] showcases some really badass work from some cool writers and poets!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Jodi Varon<\/strong> had an essay “Augury” published in the autumn 2020 issue of Boulevard<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Vanessa Watters<\/strong> has a spate of good news: Her poem, “Big Mother Blue,” was accepted by Poets Choice for their forthcoming compilation, Global Warming<\/em>; another poem, \u201cLimbo,\u201d concerning our current times, will appear in Beyond Words<\/em><\/a>; and a third poem, \u201cAmnesia,\u201d<\/a> is now featured on The Dewdrop<\/em> online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA student Chelsey Waters<\/strong> published her first short story, “Reunion on the St. Joe,” <\/a> in the December issue of Unearthed<\/em>. She began the story last summer at Fishtrap with Leni Zumas and finished it in Joe Wilkins’s post-residency seminar. She is also the recipient of MFA program\u2019s 2020 Thomas Madden Scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MFA faculty member Joe Wilkins<\/strong>‘s novel Fall Back Down When I Die <\/em>(Little, Brown 2019) came out in paperback last year and, among other honors, won the High Plains Book Award<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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