DAVID JAUSS’S Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories was published in print and e–book editions by Press 53 in September. His short story collections Crimes of Passion and Black Maps were reprinted in e–book format by Dzanc Books this summer. His short story “A Brief History of My Scars” appeared in the literary journal Seems. “Homo Sapiens vs. Homo Fictus,” an essay on characterization, was published in the March/April issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. His essay “The Reverse Side” appears in December in The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn, edited by Laura McCullough and published by Syracuse University Press. CLINT MCCOWN’S novel, Haints, has won the Midwest Book Award for literary fiction. In Pacific Walkers, NANCE VAN WINKEL’S sixth collection of poems, she encounters figures devoid of history but enduring among human kind as lockered remains, and figures who come with histories—first names and dates, and faces preserved in photographs—but who no longer belong to anyone.
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RAPHAEL MATTO ’14 received his undergraduate degree in Creative Writing Poetry at Skidmore College in 2001 and was awarded the school’s only poetry prize. After graduating, he traveled the world, enjoying a ten-year career in the feature film industry as a visual effects artist, working on many films including Avatar, Ice Age 2, District 9, and 30 Days of Night. Currently, Matto is building and supervising the visual effects department at Pandapanther, a small animation studio working on its first feature Matto is pursuing an MFA in Writing at VCFA, film in NYC’s East Village. focusing on poetry. Poetry is Raphael’s first real love. His poems typically reimagine or distort features of major religions, or warn of environmental devastation with surreal post-apocalyptic speculations—sometimes integrating animation and visual art. He and his faculty advisor Leslie Ullman are investigating the link between hallucinations resulting from brain damage and the poetic image.
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