{"id":1875,"date":"2020-10-16T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?page_id=1875"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:46:08","slug":"creative-writing-alumni-and-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/students\/graduate\/graduate-plans\/creative-writing\/creative-writing-alumni-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Current News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Creative Writing Program is proud to celebrate the many successes of students past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See below for our current news, and these pages for news from prior years: 2024\u20132025 news<\/a>, 2023\u20132024 news<\/a>, 2022-2023 news<\/a>, 2021-2022 news<\/a>. Please also visit our 51ÁÔÆæ creative writing program bookshelf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: All links below are to external sites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Thorson<\/strong>\u00a0(BA, 2014), has published her first collection of stories,\u00a0A Women’s Guide to True Crime.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which features several selections from\u00a0The Best American Mystery and Suspense\u00a0<\/em>series<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk\u00a0<\/strong>(MA in progress) has a story in the April 2026 issue of\u00a0M\u0100NOA\u00a0Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Rouse <\/strong>(MA in progress) won the Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence<\/a> from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Burzy\u0144ski<\/strong> (PhD, 2018) has just published his debut full-length poetry collection, Infinite Zero<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, with Writ Large Press. He is also the author of the chapbook A Year Alone inside of Woodland Pattern<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (Adjunct Press, 2022) and the translator of Martyna Buli\u017ca\u0144ska\u2019s This Is My Earth<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (New American Press, 2019). Peter’s poetry, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in the Georgia Review<\/em>, jacket2<\/em>, the Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, jubilat,<\/em> RHINO<\/em>, Storm Cellar<\/em>, Thrush<\/em>, Prick of the Spindle<\/em>, Prelude<\/em>, Your Impossible Voice<\/em>, Forklift, Ohio<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alum and emerit professor Brenda C\u00e1rdenas<\/strong> (BA, 1987) recently spoke to W51ÁÔÆæ-FM<\/a> about her tenure as Wisconsin Poet Laureate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Burden<\/strong> (PhD, 2021) has his debut novel, Where the Light Flickers<\/em><\/a>, forthcoming from Silent Clamor Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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