"For the Heart I Never Had" in Fantasy Scroll Magazine
"Keep Moving" in The Lorelei Signal and Mystic Signals
"The Escapist" in The Danforth Review
Nonfiction:
"A Genre of Space" in The Spectatorial
Poetry:
"Waltz for My Brother," Pulp Literature
"Fine, Thank You," Fire Poetry Journal
"In This One, the Bird Lives" in Dark Company II Anthology
Casey Bell (class of 2019)
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Co-director of Girls Rock Reno
Story "Luminous Through the Mist" received an honorable mention in the CRAFT Elements contest
Fiction:
"Sybil and the Saguaro," Cream City Review
"No Man's Land," Timber
"Nature's Perfect Food," Lady Liberty Lit
"Wax Palm and Bougainvillea," New Limestone Review
Andy Butter (class of 2021)
Nonfiction:
"Prayer Sketches," Southeast Review
"Adult Swim Class and the Salvation of Community Waters," The Hunger
"The Five Voices of Lake Superior" and "Running for the Love of the Lake," nationalgeographic.org
Christina Camarena (Class of 2018)
Assistant Professor of English, Olympic College
Fiction:
"Baby in a Jar" in Jabberwock Review
"In Trump's America" in Clover, A Literary Rag
"Placeholders" in Palimpsest: Yale Graduate Literary Arts Magazine
Rachel Chimits (Class of 2018)
Fiction:
"One Thousand Springs," Reality Break Press
"Day and Night Girl," Andromeda Spaceways (and named one of Best of 2019)
"Blood Pearl," "Xeriscape of Bones," Reunion: The Dallas Review
"At the End" in Dark Company II Anthology
"Dead Wings" in If This Goes On Anthology
"Yellow-Banded Spider" in Speculative City
Eli Coyle, Class of 2023
Poetry
"Morning of the Campfire" (forthcoming), Tule Review
"Maslow’s Hierarchy" (forthcoming), Barely South Review
"What Was," Caustic Frolic
"Navel," Cosumnes River Journal
"This Print Tastes Like a Rorschach Blot," The Helix Literary Magazine
"Meditations on the California Coast," Caustic Frolic
"Rainfall and Bobbing Poppies," CAMAS
December Cuccaro, Class of 2021
Fiction
"The Price of a Feather" Sword and Kettle Press
"A Past Worth Remembering" Three Crows Magazine
Linzy Garcia (Class of 2020)
Graduate Student Association Outstanding Creative Writer Scholarship, 19-20
Fiction:
"Gentle," The Dollhouse
"Mermaid IPA," The Normal School
"After Bloom," Lady/Liberty/Lit
"You Tell Yourself," Thin Air Magazine
Finalist, WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest
Nonfiction
"Counting," Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart
Molly Gutman (Class of 2018)
Managing Editor, Cream City Review
Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship (Ph.D.) University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2020 Thomas J. Bontly Fiction Award, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2020 Creative Writing Faculty Legacy Award for fiction, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2019, 2020 Wladyslaw Cieszinski Memorial Award for fiction, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Fiction:
"Extraordinary Miraculous," One Story
"Mail Order Marriage for Shy Brides," Granta
"Simon’s Home for the Gently Loved," Alaska Quarterly Review
"Time and Oranges," TriQuarterly
"End of the Sleeping Girls," Lightspeed Magazine
"Belly and the Hatchet," Shenandoah
"Queen Kong" in My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Adventure Tales Remixed, from Booth
"Magenta" in Fairy Tale Review
"You and the Clarinetist" in Portland Review
"The Siren Lady's Handbook" in Black Warrior Review
"Little Green Men" in Psychopomp Magazine
"Little Forks and Little Fists" in The New Mexico Review
Poetry:
"Tiny Worlds" in The Normal School
"Oh" in Salt Hill
"To Starkville, With Love" in Rust + Moth
"Self Portrait as Fable" in Mid American Review
"Dear Girl in the Cactus" in Hayden's Ferry Review
"Kudzu" in The Pinch
Literary agent:
Julia Eagleton, The Gernert Company
Naseem Jamnia (Class of 2021)
Nonfiction:
"Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" in The Rumpus
"Uninformed and Uncompensated: Between 23andMe and Ancestry, Who Owns Our Genetic Data?" in Bitch Media (online), alongside six other pieces for the Writing Fellowship in Technology
"Love Removal Machine: The Future of Outsourcing Sex" in Bitch Media
Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children: Approaches to Enhance Your Students' Well-Being, Resilience, and Success, co-written with Mojdeh Bayat (Routledge, 2019)
AnnElise Hatjakes (Class of 2018)
Fiction:
"Prospecting," Decomp
"Diminished Chord," Typehouse
"Learning to Ration," Tahoma Literary Review
"Artifacts Worth Saving" - shortlisted for Green Mountain Review's Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction
"Phasing Out" in Drunk Monkeys
"A Division of Labor" in Juked Online
Leanne Howard, Class of 2022
Fiction
"A Feast of Many Flavors," NewMyths.com
"Heavenly Bodies," Typehouse Literary Magazine
Naseem Jamnia, Class of 2021
Represented by Erica Bauman at Aevitas Creative Management
2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction
Assistant Editor, Sword & Kettle Press
Fiction
"Nothing Left But Bones," forthcoming in Aurelia Leo
Isabelle Lang (Class of 2020)
Poetry:
"The Veil at the 7-Eleven," in Pittsburgh Poetry Review
"Ariadne Speaks to the Minotaur" & "House Cleaning," in Rat's Ass Review
"But Parallel Universes," in Beecher's Magazine
Joanne Mallari (Class of 2018)
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Chapbook
Daughter Tongue, Kelsay Books
Poetry:
"After close," Adanna Literary Journal
"Cluster Chords," A-Minor Magazine
"I Forget Art Happens," "Reacquaintance," "The MacGuffin"
"Dear Eve," "Mausoleum of Condolences," "On Duende," The Meadow
"Pandemic: Ritual, Breath," "Repetition with a Difference," Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart
"Alaala," "On the Way to Hallmark," North Dakota Quarterly
"Origami," Vitni Review
"At the Jelly Donut" in Crab Orchard Review
"Abecedarian on Forgetting", "Bilingual Naiveté" in Palimpsest
"Ode to Videoke" in The MacGuffin
"All Saints Eve" in Buck Off Magazine
"On Windy Hill" in The Meadow
"Laundry Date," "Language Acquisition" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), "Join the Chorus," "Block by Block," "Imagine the Windows," "The Bigger Picture" in The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal
Danielle Mayabb (Class of 2020)
Fiction:
"People Are Fragile Things, You Should Know by Now" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 35
Scott McFadden, Class of 2019
Administrative Quality and Outcomes Specialist, Carson Tahoe Regional Health
Brian Rowe (Class of 2018)
Literary agent:
Kortney Price, The Corvisiero Agency
Scholarly:
"Thornton Wilder, Uncle Charlie, and Homosexuality" in Thornton Wilder in Collaboration
"The Gay YA Movement" in Southern Pacific Review
Fiction:
"Return to Pride" in Chelsea Station Magazine
"The Witches on Floor Fifteen" in Agnes and True Literary Magazine
"Creature Story" in The Deep Dark Woods Anthology
"Final Shot" in Tincture Journal
"Larry's Last Day" in Fox Cry Review
Poetry:
"Hands" in Rogue Poetry
"Sally" in Strong Verse Magazine
Nonfiction:
"A Window to Dreams" in New Mexico Review
G.J. Sanford, Class of 2019
Poetry
"What I Don’t Know (About My Mother)," Ninth Letter
"Girl Ghazal," "Ode to Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcake Rolls," and "(a trans woman’s) terms & conditions (for hooking up with cis/het men)," Crab Fat Magazine
"O. unilateralis," Frontier Poetry
"A Fire in Douglas," december magazine
"Kink Shaming," "Every Tree a Boy," "Consider the Strawberry," Lady/Liberty/Lit
"Dream Job," "Preface to a Biological Transition," The Meadow
"Bloodwork," "Encounter w Three Bros @ the Pharmacy," Up the Staircase Quarterly
"#anxiety," Maudlin House
"How to Lose Custody," Potomac Review
"Duet," River Styx Magazine
"On Bremerton Ferry," "The Perfect Tweet," Rust + Moth
"After the Accident," Bird’s Thumb
"Grey Matter," After the Pause
"Another Fundamental," "Raise," Clover: A Literary Rag
Logan Seidl (Class of 2019)
Poetry:
"Anxiety" in After the Pause
"Mechanical Marriage" in By&By Poetry
"A Day Inside the Amazon.com Warehouse," "Dear Ladyfish," "Remodel," "The First and Last Time I Went to My Mother's Chemo Treatment," "What America is Doing to Baseball, Kids, and Other Stuff" in Constellations
"Divorce Origin," "Engagement" in Crab Creek Review
"To See Beyond It" in Crack the Spine
"Marriage" in Kentucky Review
"Before Divorce," "How Was Work Today" in The Meadow
"Euphoria" in Pine Hills Review
"When I Street Raced on Summer Nights" in Roanoke Review
"Ball-in-Hand" in San Pedro River Review
"Last Night at My In-Laws," "The Night Sadie Met Slash from Row 12 Seat 5" in The Vehicle
"Obituary" in Vinyl
Olivia Soule (Class of 2018)
Poetry:
"Thursday Routine," Poetry Explosion Newsletter
"Shopping at the Chanel Counter at Macy’s," Loch Raven Review
"It Came," "Road Trip," "Ignore the Stars," and "Accrete" (nominated for the Pushcart Prize) in Haight Ashbury Literary Journal
"My body is sealed shut, like an envelope," in Poetry Explosion Newsletter
"New Stoicism," "Balcony Storms," and "Pink Bougainvillea," in The Storyteller
"Reflections on a Vague Obituary," and "Akin," in Pudding Magazine
"Blind Spot," in Vox Poetica
Max Stone, Class of 2023
Poetry
"Float," Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal
"Milk," Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal
Laura Valenza, Class of 2020
Fiction
"South to Deal" (Forthcoming), Cream City Review
"Invited to Ugly" (Forthcoming), Whiskey Island
"This Is Not an Avocado," Thin Air Magazine
"Mud Sirens," Lady/Liberty/Lit
"Between Two Rivers," Visual Verse
Nonfiction
"Defining an era: In an exhibition of vintage Italian photographs, it's easy to find kindred spirits," Double Scoop
Michelle Aucoin Wait (Class of 2020)
Poetry:
"Rougaroux" and "Cornflower Blue," Porkbelly Press’s Love Me, Love My Belly zine
"Calliope, Clio, Melpomene, Urania, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Erato, & Thalia In That Order," Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart
"This is My Feminist Manifesto," The Meadow
"International Space Station or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," Headline Poetry & Press
"This is Not an Aesop for Children," and "Over-sharing" The Vitni Review
"Voodoo Queen Kletic," Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog
"Elegy for My Uterus," The Hunger
"Spoiler Alert," featured by Mississippi State University’s Library in their Poetry Month 2020 exhibition
"Medusa Rewritten," The Meadow
"Lilith," and "Objects in Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear," Landlocked
"The Day My Husband Came Home from War the Sky Split Open," Lady/Liberty/Lit
"Playlist on Repeat," Maudlin House
"This Was Sunday" in The Meadow
"Gas Station Fuck Boy," "No Fetish Here" in Lady/Liberty/Lit
"This is My Story to Tell" in Tiferet
Manuela Williams, Class of 2022
Chapbook
Witch, dancing girl press
Poetry
"A Conversation (With Birds)," "Body Work," and "Dream Work," Queen Mob's Teahouse