MFA Publications and Accomplishments
Matthew Baker (Class of 2018)
Chapbook
- Undoing the Hide’s Taut Musculature (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
Poetry:
- "Swamp Report," The Atlanta Review
- "Genetic Troy (Addiction)," The Briar Cliff Review
- "I’m told the story of how my college-age father "fell" from a building but survived," The Baltimore Review
- "If there is something of the sky in us," The Vitni Review
- "Let the body be," The Summerset Review
- "Long Division," as part of Collateral & Co.’s dance performance, Dust Horizon
- "Birthday Parties," The Matador Review
- "Prospects," Booth
- "Looking for Traces of My Dead(beat) Father in the Mirror," "Self-portrait as the Wax of Icarus' Wings," "Against ancestry.com" in Sundog Lit
- "The Next Generation" in Sierra Nevada Review
- "If Not Absolution"; "Grandmother Dead, Then Alive, Then Dead Again" in antiBODY: An Online Anthology of Poetry & Medicine
- "Putty-white Like My Father's My Skin" in Swamp Ape Review
- "What the Surgeon General Doesn't Tell You"; "Tattoo as Echo, as Shade" in Yemassee Journal
- "Learning How Not to Fall" in Clover, A Literary Rag
- "What My Grandmother Didn't Tell Me" in ELKE: A Little Journal
- "My birth as ƒ(x)"; "Don't Feel Guilty" and "‘Let's Not Grow Weary" in The Meadow
Raluca Balasa (class of 2018)
- Fellow, Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference, Tempe, Arizona, 2021
Novel
- Blood State, Renaissance Press
Fiction:
- "The Executioner General" The Mithila Review
- "Forty-Flesh Barrier" in Mad Scientist Journal
- "Kings and Queens" in Grimdark Magazine
- "The Great Divide" in Psychopomp Magazine
- "Perfect Assassin" in Aurealis
- "The First Kill" in Bewildering Stories
- "Son of the Dragon" in Andromeda Spaceways
- "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
- "Conquistador," Angel City Review