taught creative writing to undergraduates and worked for the Notre Dame Review as an editorial assistant. AMY DE BETTA graduated from the Creative Writing program in 1998 and since then has done an abundance of corporate work but is finally permanently settled in the deserts of New Mexico. She works with local animal shelters fostering and caring for abandoned, ill, or abused dogs. It is never too late to truly embrace God, Country... and Notre Dame. Go Irish! SHAUN DILLON received his MFA from Notre Dame in 2004. He worked at a New York literary agency, then Carroll & Graf Publishers, and finally Da Capo Press, before returning to his native Michigan in 2007. His writing has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, FIELD, The South Carolina Review, and the Hawai’i Pacific Review, among other publications. MARY MARIE DIXON, a visual artist and writer, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (2006) with an MA in theology and an MFA in creative writing. She has published creative works in periodicals and a collection of poetry, Eucharist, Enter the Sacred Way (Franciscan University Press, 2008). Her focus is on spirituality, women, and the Great Plains. DONAL GORDON, MD, MFA ‘96, is currently the Director of the Cedar Rapids (IA) Family Medicine Residency. In addition to Family Medicine, he also practices Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. AMY IRISH is a 1998 graduate of the Notre Dame writing program. Her poem “Finding Peace in the City of War” was inspired by the Speak Peace traveling art exhibit, in which American poets across the country are invited to respond to Vietnamese children’s paintings about the Vietnam war. Irish’s poem placed 3rd in the Colorado competition.
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