Mary Ting '05 Daffodil Ashes
Sarah Sullivan’s picture book, Passing the Music Down, has been selected as an NCTE 2012 Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts. (MFA-WCYA)
YA novels were recently published by WaterBrook/ Random House: Breath of Angel (June 2011) and Eye of the Sword (March 2012). (MFA-WCYA)
Mary Ting’s community art project on grief and mourning, Daffodil Ashes, was awarded a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan Community Art Fund 2012 grant. (MFA-VA)
Niya Sisk’s illustrated children’s book, Po’Bird: A Wingless Bird Determined to Fly, is now available on Amazon. Bragging Bantering Bawling (dedicated to Philip Graham) is now available on Kindle. Curly Red Stories, her online flash fiction journal, has a new platform. (MFA-W)
2004
Kelly Bingham’s firstever picture book has been released. Z is for Moose is illustrated by Caldecott Award winning Paul O. Zelinsky. The book, written while Kelly was at VCFA, has earned five starred reviews. (MFA-WCYA) Two of Karyn Henley’s fantasy/adventure
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Summer 2012
Tony Van Witsen’s story “101 Ways of Hating Claire” will appear in the spring issue of Crosstimbers. (MFA-W)
2003
Thomas Balazs’s short story collection, Omicron Ceti III, was released in
January 2012 by Aqueous Books. (MFA-W ‘03)
Dawn McDuffie’s new chapbook, Flag Day in Detroit, is now available from Adastra Press. Margaret McManis’s new contract with Pelican Press in Gretna, LA, is for