The Creative Writing Program is proud to celebrate the many successes of students past and present.
See below for our current news, and these pages for news from prior years: 2024鈥�2025 news, 2023鈥�2024 news, 2022-2023 news, 2021-2022 news. Please also visit our 51猎奇 creative writing program bookshelf.
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Mary Thorson听(BA, 2014), has published her first collection of stories,听听which features several selections from听The Best American Mystery and Suspense听series
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk听(MA in progress) has a story in the April 2026 issue of听M膧NOA听Journal.
Kim Rouse (MA in progress) won the from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.
Peter Burzy艅ski (PhD, 2018) has just published his debut full-length poetry collection, , with Writ Large Press. He is also the author of the chapbook (Adjunct Press, 2022) and the translator of Martyna Buli偶a艅ska鈥檚 (New American Press, 2019). Peter’s poetry, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in the Georgia Review, jacket2, the Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, RHINO, Storm Cellar, Thrush, Prick of the Spindle, Prelude, Your Impossible Voice, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere.
Alum and emerit professor Brenda C谩rdenas (BA, 1987) recently about her tenure as Wisconsin Poet Laureate.
Ryan Burden (PhD, 2021) has his debut novel, , forthcoming from Silent Clamor Press.