In late 2009, Dorothy Albertini MFA ’08’s short story “Winter” won the first annual Nano Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the journal Nano Fiction. For the past five years, she’s been working with the Bard Prison Initiative, and for the past two, cocurating a reincarnation of Bard’s Roving Reading series. In 2009, two mixed media works by Carla Aspenberg were featured in the exhibition Borderline at Rush Arts Gallery in New York City. Her work can be seen at www.carlaaspenberg.com. Sara Cinquemani and Michael Marlin ’03 were married on September 19, 2009, in Rhinebeck. The couple purchased their first home in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where they’ve lived since 2008. Rayna Matthews completed a master of fine arts degree in performance as public practice at The University of Texas at Austin in May 2009. She wrote her thesis “CampCamp! Performing DIY Camp Aesthetics” after producing and hosting a monthly queer performance event titled “CampCamp!” for three years. Since graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a master’s degree in journalism in December 2009, Mike Melanson has been a news writer for ReadWriteWeb.com.
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Class correspondent Sung Jee Yoo, sujeyo@gmail.com
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10th Reunion: May 21–23, 2010 Staff contact: Brad Whitmore, 845-758-7663 or whitmore@bard.edu Coleen Murphy Alexander and Michael Ginsberg have been hard at work on the 10th Reunion Committee, and hope to see a record number of ’00 alumni/ae in Annandale in May. Arlo Haskell lives in Key West, Florida, with Ashley Kamen ’01 and is the media director for Key West Literary Seminar. Arlo and Ashley receive a lot of Bard visitors, most recently Stuart Krimko, who lives in Los Angeles with Brigid McCaffrey and Jane Parrot ’99, and Shawn Vandor ’99, who lives in Portland, Oregon. The three men were in the island city this winter to celebrate publication of their new books by Sand Paper Press. Stuart’s The Sweetness of Herbert, Shawn’s Fire
at the End of the Rainbow, and Arlo’s Joker were all designed by Los Angeles–based David Janik. The gang was together again for a series of readings and batting-cage sessions on the West Coast in February and March 2010.
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Patricia Moussatche is an associate fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. She is working on membrane progesterone receptors.
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Class correspondent Julia Wolk Munemo, juliamunemo@mac.com
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Class correspondents Gavin Kleespies, gwkleespies@hotmail.com Christina Amato has been trying to convince the Bardian to print that she “disappeared whilst circumnavigating the globe in a hot air balloon,” but has been “thwarted time and time again.” Brent Armendinger published his second chapbook, Undetectable (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2009). He won first prize in poetry in the 2009 Chroma International Queer Writing Competition. With help from the Frankenart Mart in San Francisco, his students at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and the dA Center for the Arts (also in Claremont), he operates the Poem-Booth Project; for information, call 1-877-eat-poem. Tracy Bulkeley and Mark Groner ’97 added Zoe Temperance to the family in late October 2009. Veronica, their first daughter, is very excited, and Tracy and Mark are “tired, but still functioning.” Matthew DeGennaro and Christian Larsen were married in Provincetown in August 2009. Matthew is a postdoctorate student at The Rockefeller University, studying the genetics of mosquito hostseeking behavior. Jeff Erwin and his wife, Katrina, adopted a baby girl, Zorah JensenErwin, who was born on December 22, 2009. Sutton Stokes and his wife, Amy, had a baby boy, Coen Royal Stokes, in September 2009. Sutton and Amy live in Missoula, Montana, where Sutton works as a freelance business writer and journalist. Marta Topferova’s fifth album has been released on the World Village/ Harmonia Mundi label. Recorded in Prague with her New York ensemble, Trova (The Troubadour Tradition) highlights her love of styles such as the Cuban son and Puerto Rican bomba. You can listen to clips on her website: www.martatopferova.com. Katy Wells (Gustafson) and her husband, Frank, had their first child, Owen McDermott Wells, on February 23, 2009.
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15th Reunion: May 21–23, 2010 Staff contact: Anne Canzonetti ’84, 845-758-7187 or canzonet@bard.edu The wedding of Sara Cinquemani ’02 and Michael Marlin ’03 in Rhinebeck, New York
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Goldie Gider now lives in San Francisco, but is looking forward to returning to Bard in May for her reunion.