Hopwood Newsletter, August 2019

August 2019 Vol. LXXX, No. 2 The Hopwood Newsletter is published electronically twice a year. It lists the publications and activities of

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HOPWOOD NEWSLETTER

s I drove toward campus this morning for my last Monday (for a little while) as the Hopwood Program Manager, I was listening to NPR’s Morning Edition. There was a story about Atlantic puffins and the interns who study them. I tuned in and out,

thinking about my week. Suddenly, Rachel Martin was teasing a new book, Trick Mirror, by two-

winners of the Hopwood Underclassmen

time Hopwood Winner Jia Tolentino (you can hear the interview here; also, Jia will be reading at

Contest, Graduate and Undergraduate

Literati this month, if you’re around).

Hopwood Contest, and the Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize.

But back to where I started. This is my last week in the Hopwood Room for a few months. Over the next academic year, I’ll be up at our sister school in East Lansing, teaching creative writing. One

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of my favorite parts of my role here is talking with student writers about their tactical, existential, and poetic quandaries about writing and being— becoming—a writer. I’m excited to be back in the classroom, doing that piece of it full time. In the meantime: I’m sure that I’ll continue to turn on the radio, walk into Literati Bookstore, see a New York Times review, open Netflix or Hulu, and continue to follow the amazing ongoing legacy of the Hopwood Awards Program.

My plan is to return in June 2020. Until then, I leave you in the very capable hands of Rebecca Manery, a longtime and deeply knowledgable friend of the Hopwood Program. Rebecca will be wonderful — she earned her Ph.D. in English and Education from Michigan in 2016; her scholarship on creative writing pedagogy has been published in Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?

(Bloomsbury, 2017), which she co-edited with Stephanie Vanderslice, and in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and is the author of a collection of poetry, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She is currently at work on a young adult novel. I feel grateful Rebecca is here to carry all this good work — Avery’s, Jule’s, Andrea’s, and yours — forward.

Until June, friends— Hannah Ensor

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RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA + KIESE LAYMON VISIT IN 2020 Raquel Salas Rivera, the 2018-

About Laymon’s work, Martha Ann

19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia

Toll of NPR has written, “Kiese

and the inaugural recipient of the

Laymon is a star in the American

Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate

literary firmament, with a voice

Fellowship, both from the Acad-

that is courageous, honest, loving,

emy of American Poets, will be

and singularly beautiful.”

joining us in the Rackham Amphitheater to celebrate our fall awards’

We’re grateful that these two phe-

winners at our late January Awards

nomenal writers —both of whom

Ceremony. Their 2018 book, lo

exemplify Avery Hopwood’s wish

terciario/the tertiary, was named

that this program aim to encour-

one of the five best books of 2018

age “the new, the unusual, and the

by Publishers Weekly.

radical” in student writing—will be joining us in 2020. We hope to see

And fresh off of the release of Kiese

you there for one or both of these

Laymon’s phenomenal memoir,

events.

HEAVY, we have confirmed that he will be able to join us to offer

Stay tuned to our website and

an original lecture at the 2020 Hop-

social media channels for more

wood Awards Ceremony in April.

details.

NEWS AND NOTES News and Notes

wrote the novel on which it is based.

joining the faculty of Michigan State

ANN TASHI SLATER (1990)

francine j. harris (2011)

Professor of Creative Writing.

On December 4, 2019, Ann will

Appointed Associate Professor of

give a reading and talk at the Rubin

English in the Creative Writing Pro-

Museum in NYC.

gram at the University of Houston,

University as a Visiting Assistant

HOWARD WOLF (1967) “Arthur Miller: The Limits of Real-

Fall 2019.

ism,” a paper to be delivered for Ar-

“Poetry Is Thought As Feeling: An

GABRIELLE CIVIL (1992)

University (Ohio), October 2019;

Interview with Karen Garthe” (Rain

Publications in Water Stone Review,

Taxi), “Boatspotting” (Amsterdam

The Rumpus, and New Daughters of

Quarterly #25), and “Flame Wars

Africa: an International Anthology

2.0,” (Angry Old Man). Researcher/

edited by Margaret Busby. “The

narrator for the documentary, The

Call for Experiments in Joy,” a score

Soul of Yodeling, April 2019. His

she co-created with six other black

newly-updated website has more.

women artists, will be published by

BART PLANTEGA (1977)

Co-Conspirator Press as a work-

thur Miller Conference at Ashland “On Writing and Gardening: Of Pen and Trowel,” an essay-memoir to be presented at Clarence High School (Buffalo, NY), fall 2019.

JOSEPH KECKLER (2003) Performed concerts of his original songs at Lincoln Center, NYC and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His

DEAN BAKOPOULOS (1997)

book. In February, she received the

Co-creator and executive producer

2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerg-

of a new television series, Made for

ing Artist award.

night” premiered in January in the

2020. He co-created the show with

HANNAH ENSOR (2009)

“Let Me Die” premieres with Opera

his spouse, Alissa Nutting, who

In Fall 2019, Hannah Ensor will be

Love, premiering on HBO Max in

performance,“Train with No MidPrototype Festival and a new piece, Philadelphia and FringeArts in Philadelphia this September.

MARGE PIERCY (1954) Interview with Donald Beagle in Hopwood Poets Revisited; an Italian translation of He, She, and It and a Norwegian translation of The Longings of Women were published in 2019; successful conclusion of the ninth annual Juried Intensive

NEWS AND NOTES BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS Poetry Workshop in Wellfleet, MA

STEPHEN ERIC BERRY(1986)

HANNAH ENSOR (2009)

(June); the podcast documentary, “No

“Is Translation a Loaded Gun?”

Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie

Choice,” continues to run regularly on

accepted for the Emily Dickinson

Schooner Anthology of Contempo-

Bill Moyers’s website.

International Society-sponsored

rary Sports Writing (University of

Roundtable at the January 2020 MLA

Nebraska Press, October 2019). Ed-

Convention in Seattle.

ited by Natalie Diaz, associate editor

PORTER SHREVE (1998) BETH BICH MINH NGUYEN (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998)

Hannah Ensor.

Books and Chapbooks HARRY THOMAS (1979)

Porter Shreve and Beth Bich Minh Nguyen will join the faculty of the

francine j. harris (1990)

The Occasional Demon: Thirty-Six

University of Wisconsin-Madison in

Here is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus,

Poems of Primo Levi, translated with

Fall 2019 as Professors of English and

and Giroux) forthcoming in 2020.

Marco Sonzogni (Cuba Press (NZ),

Creative Writing.

July 2019).

FRANNY CHOI (2017)

RAE GOUIRAND (2001)

Soft Science (Alice James Books, April

HOWARD WOLF (1967)

Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork

2019). A Book Riot Top Queer Poetry

Second Time Around: The Timely Birth

Press, 2018) was reviewed by Rachel

Collections to Read During Nation-

of a Somewhat Comic Hero, a collec-

Mindell for Gertrude Press in Febru-

al Poetry Month; Paris Review Staff

tion of 5 stories and an essay-memoir

ary.

Pick; Book Riot “Must-Read Poetry

(Prestige Books International (Delhi,

Collection”; recommended by Buzz-

London, Sydney), October 2019).

ROSEMARY HARP (1993)

feed News; Rumpus Book Club Pick;

“Cape Town, 1991,” in Every Day

one of Nylon’s Best Books to Read

JIM MERCURIO (1990)

Fiction (May 2019); “1000 Years” (Fic-

in 2019; and one of Lit Hub’s Most

The Craft of Scene Writing (Linden

tion, Summer 2019).

Anticipated Books of 2019.

Publishing, February 2019).

DR. SHERMAN SILBER, M.D. (1965)

GREGORY LOSELLE (1989)

JOHN U. BACON (1988)

Dr. Silber made three videos, “Inter-

In Ordinary Time, chapbook, Moon-

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World

viewing Cancer Patients Before Ovary

stone Press, forthcoming; and The

War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and

Freezing and Decades Later With

Very Rich Hours, full-length book,

Extraordinary Heroism (HarperCol-

Their Babies,” “Grandkids in Alaska,”

The Poetry Box, forthcoming.

lins), Bacon’s sixth national bestseller,

and “Reflections on the Amazon.”

came out in paperback last fall, and

BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS FICTION AND POETRY PUBLICATIONS this fall Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and

Old Will Haunt You, the eighth and

RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN

the Michigan Wolverines at the Cross-

ninth novels in Lakin’s comedy mys-

(2007)

roads of College Football (HarperCol

tery series (Savem Press).

Translations of two short stories

lins) launches on September 3, 2019.

by Antonio Prata (from Brazilian ROSMARIE AND KEITH WALDROP

Portuguese) in Ploughshares, Winter

JOSEPH KECKLER (2003)

(1963)

2018-2019.

Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World

Keeping / the Window Open: Inter-

(Turtle Point Press, 2017).

views, statements, alarms, excursions.

Poetry Publications

Edited by Ben Lerner. (Wave Books, LEAH FALK (2012)

2019).

To Look After and Use (Finishing Line Press, September 2019).

ANNE-MARIE BRUMM (1970) “The Media Widow” in Paterson

DR. SHERMAN SILBER, M.D. (1965)

Literary Review, Spring 2019.

Fundamentals of Male Infertility PETER SERCHUK (1974)

(Springer, 2018).

The Purpose of Things, a collaboration (poems and photographs) with pho-

DANEZ SMITH (2016) “in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say,”

Fiction Publications

Academy of American Poets’ Poem-ADay, April 2019.

tographer Pieter de Koninck, will appear in both hardcover and paperback

GREGORY LOSELLE (1989)

in October 2019 from Regal House

“Lint, Dust & Hair” posted on

GREGORY LOSELLE (1989)

Publishing.

Dacunha.

“Laudamus,” “For My Student Marilyn at the Moment of Her Death,”

RAE GOUIRAND (2001)

HOWARD WOLF (1967)

“Jay at the Window,” and “Stratford,

Jinx, a poetry chapbook, won the

“Stay, Putt, My Son, Stay Put,” the

and Jessica Walking Away” in Genre:

Summer Kitchen Series competition

eighteenth story in a series, forth-

Urban Arts.

and was published by Seven Kitchens

coming in Trajectory; “Count No Man

Press.

Unhappy” and “One Day at the End

HARRY THOMAS (1979)

of His World,” Interarts online journal

“Ghazal,” “Lovegrass,” and introduc-

(Portugal, ed. Mario Avelar).

tion to Poems About Trees (Every-

RICHARD WIDERKEHR (1966) In the Presence of Absence (MoonPath

man’s Library) in Literary Matters, Fall

Press, August 2017).

2018 and forthcoming; “I have a new MARGE PIERCY (1954)

garden,” “I have a worthy rooster,” and

RITA LAKIN (1955)

“The Service,” in December, Vol. 29.2,

“I have a young sister” translated from

Getting Old Can Hurt You and Getting

Fall/Winter 2018.

Anon, early 15th century, Literary

POETRY PUBLICATIONS

Imagination, Spring 2019; “A Tree”

in Contemporary Haibun Online 14:3,

online issue 2018; “Their mouths are

and “Annunciation,” two poems by

October 2018; “Power to the people”

closed” and “Where do pets go in the

Primo Levi, translated with Marco

in Haibun Today, Online, Spring,

end,” in San Diego Poetry Annual,

Sonzogni, in Raritan, Summer 2019.

2018; “My mother, the Jewish witch,”

2017-2018; “We live with her here”

Ibbetson Street #45, Spring/Summer

and “You’re quite gone” in San Diego

IAN ROSS SINGLETON (2004)

2019; “When the body is cranky,”

Poetry Annual, 2018-2019.

A translation (from the Russian) of

Hanging Loose 110, 2018; “Early Ed-

“Janiculum” by Marina Eskina in The

ucation,” “Endless Rage,” and “World

PETER SERCHUK (1974)

Wax Paper, Issue 9.

that doesn’t lack an ending,” in LIPS,

“Arthur,” “Mary Pickford’s Last Scene”

Number 48/49, Spring 2018; “Algon-

and “Indian Summer” in Badlands;

KC TROMMER (2007)

quins call this the crow moon,” 2018

“Minute By Minute” in Naugatuck

“We Call Them Beautiful,” originally

Lunar Calendar, Issue 42; “The moon

River Review; “Tarek Compares Beau-

published in Prairie Schooner, fea-

is a lion in March,” 2019 Lunar Cal-

ty and Thunder” in The Moth (UK);

tured on Poetry Daily, July 2019.

endar; “After the operation,” “Fooled

“This Just In” and “The Man Who

again, she said” and “O frabjous joy,

Cuts My Hair” in Clackamas Literary

LAURENCE W. THOMAS (1956)

the turkeys” in Muddy River Poetry

Review; “Pebbles in My Shoe,” “The

“Cabin Fever” and “The Changing”

Review, Spring Online Issue 2018;

View from North Dakota” and “Inside

in Blue Unicorn; “Villanelle for a Bad

“Happy birthday to me,” “Holiday of

a Church Not of Your Own Faith”

Day” and “To Give the Lie” in Spare

leaves,” “How it is now,” “How we

forthcoming in The Cape Rock; “The

Mule.

do it,” “My shifting shadow,” “What

Morning News in Oslo,” “Asylum for

happiness looks like,” and “Without

the Relief of Persons Deprived of the

MARGE PIERCY (1954)

warning, a door,” Paterson Literary

Use of Their Reason,” and “The Sad-

“I lie awake, mid-February” in The

Review, Issue 45; “Mother seized what

dest Polar Bear in China” forthcom-

Artful Dodge, 54 & 55, 2019; “As I try

she could,” Paterson Literary Review,

ing in The American Journal of Poetry.

to imagine it,” in Broadkill Review,

Issue 46; “Friends don’t can,” “How I

online issue 2018; “Noon in a three

am possessed,” “I am a slave to toma-

RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN

star restaurant” in Chiron Review,

toes,” “Metamorphosis,” and “How did

(2007)

Issue 114, Winter 2018; “The longest

I come to be here?” in Paterson Liter-

“Rasp” in Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter

lesson” in Chiron Review, Issue #115,

ary Review 47; “A bush of surprises,”

2018-2019. Translations of five poems

Spring, 2019; “Losses add up to zero,”

“A great morning arrives,” “Another

by Flávio de Araújo (from Brazilian

in Comstock Review, Spring/Summer

request comes in,” and “Memory lurks

Portuguese) in Mānoa: A Pacific Jour-

2019; “Will the drought ever break?”

in them,” in The Poetry Porch, Spring

nal of International Writing, Winter

POETRY, DRAMA, AND NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS 2018. Mānoa also published an in-

STEPHEN ERIC BERRY (1986)

Cicadas, and Visits from the Dead,”

terview about the translation process

“Monster,” Water-Stone Review Vol.

the first installment of a new column

and Araújo’s work.

22, forthcoming September 2019;

about living and traveling in Japan,

a translation of Pamela Proietti’s

India, Tibet, and California, Cata-

RICHARD WIDERKEHR (1966)

“Poemetto in Sol Minore,” translat-

pault, June 20, 2019.

“Sabbath,” “Chloe Borrows A Phone

ed by Stephen Eric Berry and María

Card,” “Permeable Rooms,” and “Blos-

Rodríguez Santiago from the original

BETH AVIV (1973)

soming Trees” in Midwest Poetry Re-

Italian into English (“Poemetto in

“Love in the Time of AIDS,” in the

view; “At The Grace Cafe” and “Cra-

G-minor”), will be published in the

Remembering Stonewall feature of

cow” in Raven Chronicle’s anthology

upcoming summer issue of Asymp-

The Grief Diaries.

of poems against hate; “In the Synergy

tote.

DANEZ SMITH (2016)

Room” in Naugatuck River Review; “The Way Home” and “Pear Trees on

Drama Performances and Publications

Irving Street” in A Walk With Nature; all forthcoming.

“Reimagining Ourselves in an Increasingly Queer World,” part of The

HOWARD WOLF (1967)

New York Times’ “Stonewall: 50 Years

“Home at the End of the Day: An

Later” feature, June 2019.

SAMIYA BASHIR (2011)

American Family Drama in Three

Guest Editor, June 2019 Poem-a-Day,

Acts” received a reading by O’Connell

DAVID WADE (2019)

Academy of American Poets. Bashir

& Company in August 2018.

“Baptism,” Kenyon Review Online,

featured such poets as Eunsong Kim,

Summer 2019).

Vanessa Angélica Villareal, Marwa

SETH MOORE (2006)

Helal, Natalie Diaz, and more.

“SeaWife,” after garnering two Drama

DONALD BEAGLE (1977)

Desk nominations during its success-

“Developing the Research Commons,”

SARAH SALA (2008)

ful run in NYC and a sold-out run

in Planning Optimal Library Spaces,

Six poems from her lyric epic,

in Nantucket, was selected for The

2018; foreword for the book, Creating

“Migrainer” forthcoming in South-

National Alliance of Musical Theater’s

a Learning Commons, by Lampert &

ampton Review, Fall 2019. Devil’s Lake

31st Annual Festival of New Musicals.

Meyers-Martin, 2018.

Nonfiction

HOWARD WOLF (1967)

is currently a finalist for the 2019 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her poem, “Blue Dog Blue Dog” is forthcoming in the

“My View: From a Hospital Bed, Sim-

New Poetry from the Midwest antholo-

ANN TASHI SLATER (1990)

ple Joys Beckon,” The Buffalo News;

gy via New American Press.

“Summer in Tokyo: Rain Women,

April 11, 2019.

JOSEPH KECKLER (2003)

BURNING DECK PRESS IN 2019

“On the Redemption of American Culture,” Somesuch Stories #4, Fall 2018.

RAE GOUIRAND (2001) “The History of Art”, a short nonfiction work, won the fourth annual Open Reading Competition and was published in The Atlas Review.

DR. SHERMAN SILBER, M.D. (1965) “The varicocele argument resurfaces,”

Burning Deck, the press founded by Hopwood winners Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961, ceased publication in 2019 after 56 remarkable years of operation. Considered one of the country’s most important publishers of experimental poetry and prose, Burning Deck was celebrated this year by both Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn and at an AWP event sponsored by Wave Books in Portland, Oregon.

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, March 2018.

STEPHEN ERIC BERRY (1986) “Poemetto in Sol Minore: a translator’s note,” in Asymptote (Summer

The Waldrops’ prolific contributions to the literary and visual arts continue with publications in The Volta, A Noon Anthology of Short Poems, and Second Stutter 3; an exhibition of Keith’s collages at Passages Bookshop in Portland; and a joint interview and seminar on translation by Rosmarie at Harvard University. Wave Books published Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Keeping / the Window Open: Interviews, statements, alarms, excursions, edited by Ben Lerner, a collection that “seeks to illustrate the many ways in which the Waldrops have expanded the possibilities of bookcraft, art, community, and literature.”

Congratulations and deep thanks to the Waldrops for their lifetime commitment to publishing, writing, and translating innovative writing.

2019).

MARTHA ZWEIG (1966) “Gnarly” included in Vermont Poets and Their Craft, ed. Neil Shepard and Tamra J. Higgins, Sundog Poetry Center/Green Writers Press, 2019.

Reviews IAN ROSS SINGLETON (2004) Review of David Bezmozgis’s Immigrant City in Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2019 JIM MERCURIO (1990) The Craft of Scene Writing (Quill Driver, 2019) reviewed by Frank Beaver.

AWARDS AND HONORS SAMIYA BASHIR WINS ROME PRIZE

ANNE-MARIE BRUMM(1970) “Letter from Oslo” won the 2019 Carolyn Forche Award for Humanitarian Poetry and will be anthologized in Elusions - Refugee Poems (WaterWood Press, 2019).

CARMEN BUGAN (1993) “Lilies from America” won a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society (UK).

ESME WEIJUN WANG (2010) The Collected Schizophrenias (Graywolf Press) was a New York Times Bestseller.

Samiya Bashir (2011) has won a prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome to honor artists and scholars who represent “the highest standard of excellence” and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, Rome Prizes were awarded to thirty American and six Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to eleven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. Congratulations and in bocca al lupo to Samiya!

FRANNY CHOI (2017) Finalist for the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

FRANNY CHOI (2017) and DANEZ SMITH (2016) VS. podcast featured on NPR.org, “Podcasts Are Providing A New Way Into Poetry,” July 2019.

GREGORY LOSELLE (1989) “Eden”, third-place, Crosswinds Poetry Journal Annual Competition; winning issue published May 2019.

HANNAH ENSOR (2009) Recipient of a 2019 Judith A. Markowitz Emerging LGBTQ Writer award from Lambda Literary.

LAURENCE W. THOMAS (1956) “First Snow” recognized in Missouri State Poetry Society annual contest.

MARGE PIERCY (1954) Recipient of the 2018 Rose Dorothea Award at the Provincetown Library Writers Festival.

MEGAN LEVAD (2008) Writer in Residence, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where “When There Are Nine,” a song cycle about Ruth Bader Ginsberg that Levad wrote with Kristin Kuster (Chair of Composition at U-M) premiered, Summer 2019.

SAM ROSENBERG (2019) Glide, a Hopwood Award-winning script, was a semifinalist in the LAUNCH Million Dollar Screenplay Contest.

SHAELYN SMITH (2007) The Leftovers (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) won the 2019 CLMP Firecracker Award for Independently Published Literature.

CORRECTIONS In the first edition of last January’s newsletter, we listed publications by Rosemary Harp as being written by Rosmarie Waldrop. Our apologies!

KERRY WASHINGTON + REESE WITHERSPOON LOVE HOPWOOD WINNERS

This was corrected in our second edition, and is reflected on issuu.com and our website.

Also in January’s newsletter, we sorted entries incorrectly across two entries (saying that stories by Howard Wolf were by Joyce Winslow), and now reprint them here to reflect their proper authors.

JOYCE WINSLOW (1968) “The Juggler” winner of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award, forthcoming in Persimmon Tree.

HOWARD WOLF (1967) “The Icicles of Eggertsville” in Tra-

Everyone loves Hopwood Award winners and their books, and Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon are no exception. Most recently, the actresses/producers teamed up to bring Little Fires Everywhere, an adaptation of Celeste Ng’s bestselling 2017 novel, to Hulu. In addition to serving as executive producers, Washington and Witherspoon will also star. No official release date yet, but look for the eight-episode mini-series to premiere sometime in 2020. Ng, who won a Hopwood in Graduate Short Fiction in 2006, praised Liz Tigelaar’s adaptation as “True to the characters and themes and plot, but with lots of new layers and some tweaks and twists.”

Washington is also slated to produce the film adaptation of Brit Bennett’s acclaimed debut novel, The Mothers, which has been optioned by Warner Brothers. Bennett is set to write the script and will serve as an executive producer. Bennett won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction in 2013. The New York Times called The Mothers “a ferociously moving debut” when it was published by Riverhead in 2016.

Washington is also clearly enamored of another Hopwood winner’s work: Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant. Li wrote her book while she was an MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, when she also won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction in 2015.

jectory, Spring 2018. “Second Time Around” in Evening Street Review.”

“Never Count a Man Unhappy” and “One Day At the End of His World,” forthcoming from Cascais Interarts Journal.

Congratulations to Celeste, Brit, and Lillian — we will be watching!

VITALITIES + HOW TO BE IN TOUCH VITALITIES IAN ROSS SINGLETON (2004) Ian Ross Singleton’s second daughter, Nadia Tamara Singleton, was born on May 17th. According to Ian, “She’s doing very well (knock on wood) and even letting me sleep sometimes.”

REV. NORMAN DALE LINVILLE (1961, 1962) The Reverend Norman Dale Linville,

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