{"id":14018,"date":"2024-11-15T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?page_id=14018"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:13:15","slug":"2023-2024-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/students\/graduate\/graduate-plans\/creative-writing\/creative-writing-alumni-and-students\/2023-2024-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2023\u20132024 News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shanae Aurora Martinez<\/strong> (PhD, 2019) is assistant professor of English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Elizabeth Hoover<\/strong> (PhD, 2022) on winning the 2024 Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing<\/a> from Lambda Literary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurt Olsson<\/strong> (PhD in progress) was featured as \u201cPick of the Week\u201d<\/a> on the Best American Poetry<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Harms<\/strong> (PhD, 2024) starts work at Marquette University as an Assistant Teaching Professor next fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth Copeland <\/strong>(PhD, 2024) has work forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current doctoral students Rebecca Baumann<\/strong> and Sean Enfield<\/strong> have work in issue 50.1<\/a> of Black Warrior Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Witt <\/strong>(PhD in progress) published an essay<\/a> in The War Horse.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Drake Thomas <\/strong>(PhD in progress) has a new novel out: Hollow Girls<\/em><\/a> (Cemetery Dance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JT Lachausse<\/strong> (PhD in progress) has two poems<\/a> in the March 2024 edition of Poetry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ching-In Chen<\/strong> (PhD, 2015) has been named 2024 Poet Laureate of the city of Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Michigan named two books by 51ÁÔÆæ authors<\/a> to its annual Michigan Notable Books list: Dearborn<\/em> by Ghassan Zeineddine<\/strong> (PhD, 2016) and Enough to Lose<\/em> by Raymond Deeren (<\/strong>PhD, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tasneem Jassar<\/a> <\/strong>(BA, 2023) has been awarded the 2023\u201324 Milwaukee Emerging Poet Fellowship in the Practice category from Woodland Pattern Book Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ae Hee Lee<\/strong> (PhD, 2021), whose full-length poetry collection, Asterism<\/em><\/a>, was selected by John Murillo for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, will launch the book in February 2024. She writes, \u201cthis collection of poems contemplates the wonders and challenges of migration, questioning enactments of fixed and exclusive belonging. Ultimately, my hope for this book is that it will resonate with anyone who needs to hear that transnational, polycentric lives have a place in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holy American Burnout! <\/em>(Split Lip Press), by current PhD student Sean Enfield<\/strong>, received a starred review in Kirkus<\/a>, which called the book a \u201ctour-de-force collection of essays on issues surrounding race, education, and American history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An essay by Danielle Harms<\/strong> (PhD in progress), \u201cRevision Notes Regarding the Fish in the Water,\u201d which appeared in New Letters <\/em>in 2022, was named a \u201cnotable essay\u201d by Best American Essays 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Necessity of Wildfire<\/em>, a new poetry collection by Caitlin Scarano<\/strong> (PhD, 2018) won both the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetry and the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Lim\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to current PhD student Lee Kathryn Hodge<\/strong> on the publication of her poetry collection, We Make Shapes from Shapes<\/a><\/em>, with Bent Paddle Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghassan Zeineddine<\/strong> (PhD, 2016) was featured on NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/em><\/a>, discussing his first book, Dearborn<\/em>, with longtime NPR arts desk reporter Neda Ulaby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to RS Deeren<\/strong> (PhD, 2022), on the publication of his first book of short stories, Enough to Lose<\/a><\/em>, with Wayne State UP. Dr. Deeren teaches at Austin Peay State University, where he is fiction editor of Zone 3.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Rank<\/strong> (BA, 2009) has published his first novel, The Present is Past<\/em><\/a>, with Unsolicited Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Harms<\/strong> (PhD in progress) has a piece, \u201cStrawberry Tongue<\/a>\u201d in Short Reads. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann-Marie Blanchard<\/strong> (PhD, 2018) won the 2023 Missouri Review<\/em> fiction prize. Her story, \u201cTrouble Will Find You<\/a>,\u201d was selected from a field of 1000 entries. Her poetry manuscript, Homebake<\/em>, was shortlisted for the Black River Chapbook Competition (2022), The New Michigan Press \/ DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest (2023), and was a finalist in the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series (2022). She was also recently named a 2024 Arist in Residence at Bundanon<\/a>, \u201cthe largest program of its kind in Australia\u201d which supports \u201cvisual and performing arts, literature, science, dance and music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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