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THE NEXT MFA RESIDENCY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 19-29,2008, ON THE THE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO MFA FACULTY

• Poet Ellen Bass has just won a Pushcart Prize.
• Poet Marvin Bell’s newest book, Mars Being Red, is a poetry finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards.
• Novelist Molly Gloss was featured on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=65096288
• Poet Peter Sears announced that his wife Anita Helle has a new book out: The Unraveling Archive: essays on Sylvia Plath. She kindly credits Pacific in the Acknowledgements. Anita once taught a workshop on the essay for our students at a summer residency.
• Pattiann Rogers' poetry was featured on Poetry Daily, March 26, 2008: http://www.poems.com/today.php Her poems and interview are also featured now on www.poemoftheweek.org http://www.poemoftheweek.org. In addition, six of her poems and her bio were just posted on Other Voices

 

STUDENT & ALUMNI AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, & ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

WILLIAM ALTON (Poetry, 2006)

• "Because this Man Turns the Soil" and "Abandoned House," poems in Pregnant Moon Review, 1/23/08

DARLA BIELFELDT (Poetry, 2009)

• Has been commissioned by the Heartland Opera Troupe to write a libretto for a
  children's opera based on Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve's book, The Trickster
  and The Troll. The commissioned composer, Kristin Kuster, was one of six
  accepted in the American Opera Projects' program "Composers and the Voice,"
  and will be setting Act 1 of Darla's libretto as part of her work with the
  AOP. The opera is expected to premier in October 2008.

MICHELLE BITTING (Poetry, 2009)

• Featured on the The Moe Green Poetry Hour on The World Wide Word Radio Networks, March 16, 2008
• Good Friday Kiss, a book of poetry, won the DeNovo First Book Award (C & R Press), judged by Thomas Lux, 2007
• "Sweet Pea," a poem to be published in Cider Press Review, Spring 2008
• "Home Zone," a poem to be published in Pebble Lake Review, Winter, 2007
• "Soft Red Skirt" and "Washed in Flame," poems in 2River View, September 2007
• Named "Poet of Distinction" by the Florence Poets Society for the poem "Newman's Own" to be published in Silkworm, 2007
• Nominated by Valparaiso Review for "Best of the Net" 2007 for the poem "The Exterminator's Wife"
• Blue Laws, a book of poetry to be published by Finishing Line Press, 2008
• "Remains," a poem in Crab Orchard Review, September 2007
• "4 Sentenced for Smashing Bluebird Houses," a poem in Boxcar Poetry Review, Summer/Fall 2007
• Finalist, 2007 dA Center for the Arts Poetry Competition for the poem "The Edge"
• "Strange Flesh," a poem forthcoming in Passages North, Spring/Summer 2008
• "Anniversary," "Dial O for Oncologist," "Neighbors," three poems in The
  Smoking Poet, Summer 2007
• "Be Attitude" and "Pieta," two poems in Blood Orange Review, Summer 2007
• "Galilee," a poem in The New Verse News, Spring 2007
• "About Beryl Mercer, Actress," a poem online in Speechless Web site, 2007
• Semi-finalist, 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition for the book Good Friday Kiss
• "Sex, Love and Robert DeNiro," short prose in Swink, 2007
• Finalist, Washington Square Review Prize, for the poem "That Summer," 2007
• Semi-finalist, Rattle Poetry Prize, for the poem "The Sacrifice," Spring 2007
• Special Merit Finalist, The Comstock Review, for the poem "Killing Lobsters," Spring 2007
• Semi-finalist, Elixer Press Poetry Award, for the book Good Friday Kiss, 2007
• "Water," a poem in Poetry Southeast, Spring 2007
• "When I'm Away in Provincetown," a poem in Quercus Review, Spring/Summer 2007
• "Flowers," a poem in Phoebe, Spring 2007
• "Saturday Afternoons, Royal Theatre," a poem in Speechless, Spring 2007
• "The Exterminator's Wife," a poem in Valparaiso Review, Spring 2007

• "Little Gifts," short short fiction in Narrative Magazine, 2007
• "Reasons to Quit," a prose poem in 21 Stars, 2007

PAT CASON (Fiction, 2007)

• Finalist, Annual Fiction Contest, So to Speak magazine, for the short story "Mermaid Fire," 2007
• "Mermaid Fire," a short story in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Vol. 24, no. 2, Winter 2008
• "Finding Her," a poem published in Oregon East, Issue 36, 2005.
• "My Problem with Perspective," a poem published in Verseweavers, Number
  9, 2005.

CATHERINE CONRAD-DIXON (Poetry, 2009)

• "Fireworks Over the Willamette - Independence, Oregon," a poem in the anthollogy Honoring the River, 2008
• " Readjustment," a poem in The Portland Alliance, February 2008

KITTY EVERS (Nonfiction, 2007)

• "Soft Stone" and "Gifts," nonfiction pieces in the online magazine Perigee, Issue 13, October 2006

BRAD FRITSCH (Fiction, 2007)

• Third Place, 2006 Dylan Days Celebration Contest, for the short story "Winter," also published in Talking Blues, 2006

CARLY FURRY (Fiction, 2006)

• Awarded a month-long residency at Caldera Artist's Retreat, 2008
• "Double Oar Turn," a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal, May 2008
• "A Hundred Million Fishes," a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal, May 2007
• “Fly on the Line,” a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal (Fly-Fishing Book edition), February 2006

JEANNINE HALL GAILEY (Poetry, 2007)

• Featured on the The Moe Green Poetry Hour on The World Wide Word Radio Networks, March 16, 2008
• Interview with Matthea Harvey on the Poetry Foundation Web site, 2008: Read the interview.
  
• Awarded the top Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for "Dogwood," "Turning Back," "He Makes Dinner," 2007
• Awarded Washington State's Artist Trust GAP (Grant for Artist Projects) for her book manuscript, "The Woman Disappears," 2007
• "Standing in the Anime Kingdom," a poem in Siren, Issue 4
• "White Bird Sister" and other poems as featured poet in Endicott Studio's Journal of Mythic Arts, Spring 2007
• "Fingernails," a poem in Posse Review, Issue 23
• "The Gift of Tongues" and "The Husband Asks Her," poems in The Harvard Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Spring 2007
• "She Rescues a Fire Demon," a poem in Cranky, Issue 9
• "The Fox-Wife Describes Their Courtship," a poem in The Columbia Poetry Review, Spring 2007
• "The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife," a poem in Redactions, Spring 2007
• Finalist, 1st Annual Poetry Southeast Poetry Contest, for the poem "Rapunzel, After," also published in Poetry Southeast, Summer 2007
• Interviewed for her book Becoming the Villainess: Read the interview.
• Garrison Keillor read her poem "Female Comic Book Superheroes " on The Writer's Almanac on July 7, 2006.
• Garrison Keillor read her poem "Spy Girls" on The Writer's Almanac on June 16, 2006: Listen to the poem
• Becoming the Villainess, Steel Toe Books, April 2006

CHARLES GREEN (Fiction, 2007)

• Bright Shadows, Mongoose Publishing, July 2007
• Gods of Law, Chaosium, Inc., December 2006

LISA GALLOWAY (Poetry, 2007)

• Liminal: A Life of Cleavage, Lost Horse Press New Poets Series, 2007
• Nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize for her poem "She
 was a Chagall"

HELEN GERHARDT, published under the name Helen Puciloski (Poetry, 2009)

• "Hindsight" and "Abstract," poems forthcoming in Calyx Journal, 2009

LESLIE GLASSER, published under the name Leslie What (Fiction, 2006)

• "Why I Wash the Dead," an essay in The New Vilna Review, April, 2008: http://www.newvilnareview.com/features/why-i-wash-the-dead.html
  
• "Money is no Object," a short story in Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008
• "My Funny Holocaust," an essay in Midstream Magazine, 2008
• "#1," a short story to be published by Electric Velocipede, Fall 2007
• "Writing Exercises," to be published by The Writer's Guide to
  Fiction, Kalmbach Publishing, Fall 2007
• "Frankenfetish," a short story in Flytrap, May 2007
• "Performance Anxiety," a short story in Perigee, July 2007
• Accepted a teaching position in 2007 with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program
• "Tsuris," a short story in the anthology Logorreah from Bantam Books, 2007
• "Post hoc," a short story in Interfictions from Small Beer Press, 2007
• "Living Waters," an essay, third place, student category, Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, 2006
• Nominated for a Nebula Award: "Nirvana High," a short story written in collaboration with Eileen Gunn and published in The James Tiptree Award Anthology #2 (Sex, the Future, And Chocolate Chip Cookies), edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Tachyon Publications, December 2005
• “The Morning Call of Birds,” a short story in The Clackamas Literary Review, March 2006
• "Letter to the Tamarack Tiding," a short story in Talking Back, edited by L. Timmel DuChamp, Aqueduct Press, 2006
• "Nature Mort," a short story in Polyphony #5, November 2005
• "The Mutable Borders of Love," a short story in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #16, Carroll and Graf, edited by Stephen Jones, November 2005

HARRY GRISWOLD (Poetry, 2007)

• "Friday Evening, No Popcorn,"  a poem from his book Camera Obscura to appear in the September 23, 2007 Poetry  column in The Sunday Oregonian

JONATHAN HARRIS (Poetry, 2009)

• Finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cutthroat, 2007

GWEN JAMES, published under the name Gwen Cash, (Poetry, 2006)

• "Thoughts From a Waiting Room, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC," a poem in Blood Orange Review, 2007
• "Third Day in New York City," a poem forthcoming in Ascent magazine, Winter 2008
• Awarded Washington State's Artist Trust GAP (Grant for Artist Projects) for her book, Acts of Contrition, 2007
• Acts of Contrition, Lost Horse Press New Poets Series, 2007
• "Incantations for Dead Mothers to Speak Over Their Daughters," "For the Dead," "Young Man Sleeping," and "Mirror," poems in Cutthroat, 2007
• Nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize for her poem "Choosing Berries and Onions"
• "Choosing Berries and Onions" and "Underworld," poems in the online magazine Perigee, Issue 13, 2006
• “After You,” a poem in Born Magazine, Spring 2006
• “Your Palm Pressed to Mine,” a poem in Birmingham Poetry Review, Fall 2005

KITTY JOSPE (Poetry, 2009)

• Tinkering with Tone," an article in Poet Talk, April-May 2008

KASSANDRA KELLY (Fiction, 2006)

• Awarded a month-long residency at Caldera Artist's Retreat, 2008

SARAH LUNDIN (Fiction, 2007)

• "West's Pond," a short story in Two Hawks Quarterly, November 2007

KATY MCKINNEY (Poetry, 2006)

• "One Morning," a poem in Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, Urban Adventure Press, 2007
• "Persistence" and "It Didn't Help That the Room Was 90," poems in Windfall, Fall 2006
• "Lessons From Ben, Just Turned 3" and "50-50," poems in the anthology Not What We Expected: The Road From Womanhood to Motherhood, Paycock Press, Fall 2006
• Soapstone residency for Summer 2006
• First Honorable Mention, Oregon State Poetry Association's Spring 2006 Contest (50th Anniversary Category) for the poem "How Through This Slow Dream"
• Third Honorable Mention, OSPA contest in the formal verse category for "Pretend Beauty Parlor, 1963"
• "Ars Poetica," a poem in Pacific magazine, Winter 2006
• "Fireproofing the Woods" and "Nocturne," poems in Windfall, Fall 2005

CATHERINE MICHAUD (Poetry, 2009)

• Second Place Winner, Writer's Digest 2006 Poetry Competition, for the poem "Dangling Modifier"

ADA MOLINOFF (Poetry, 2009)

• "Bridge," a poem in Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, Urban Adventure Press, 2007
• "Poetry Collection Offers Simple Languag," a review of Dorianne Laux's book Facts About the Moon in the Salem Monthly, October 1, 2007
• "Bella, 1908," a poem in the anthology Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women Around the World Write About Home, 2008

DAVID MOSKOWITZ (Fiction, 2006)

• "Cheat Codes," a short story in Rhapsoidia, Issue 11, 2006

ABBY MURRAY (Poetry, 2009)

• "The Goldfish," a poem forthcoming in Hawai'i Pacific Review, 2008
• "If I Had A Boat," a poem forthcoming in Walt's Corner of The Long Islander newspaper, 2008
• "Surfacing" and "With Two," poems to be published in Issue 57 of Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature and the Fine Arts, 2008
• "Bones," a poem forthcoming in Georgetown Review
• "The Hussy," a poem published in Cider Press Review, Spring 2008
• "To Ramida" and "Here Sits Cat," poems publishedin the Fall/Winter issue of Ibbetson Street, 2007-2008

NANCY NEWMAN (Nonfiction, 2006)

• Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver, a book with co-author Michael Barnholden and photographer Lindsay Meams, Anvil Press, 2007

ROBERT PEAKE (Poetry, 2009)

•  "The Angel Of Sleep Visits The Inner City," a poem in Cider Press
  Review, Volume 8, 2007
• "Radish," a poem selected as a finalist in the 2007 James Hearst
  Poetry Prize and published in North American Review, April/May 2007
• "Telegraph Flower Stand," a poem in Askew, Volume 3, Spring 2007

JAN PRIDDY (Fiction, 2007)

• "Eyebrow Wings," a poem in North American Review, March/April 2006
• "A Single Fact Can Spoil a Good Argument," a short story in CALYX: A
  Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 30th Anniversary Issue,
  Summer 2006
• Awarded a residency at Soapstone, a literary retreat, July 2006
• "Living in Snakeland," a short story in Pacific Magazine, Winter
  2005/2006

SUSAN REESE (Poetry, 2006)

• "First Post-Mastectomy Appointment," a poem in Curextra, an online subsidiary of Cure magazine, 2006
• "The Pearl Concubine," "Rodin and Claudel," and"Returning from Olallie Lake," poems in Inkwater Ink, Inkwater Press, 2006

BETH RUSSELL (Fiction. 2008)

• Awarded a residency at Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University, 200

RICKIANNE (MULLER) RYCRAFT, published under the name R.A. Rycraft, (Fiction, 2007)

• "No-Womb Woman," a short story accepted for publication in the The MacGuffin,Spring/Summer 2008
• "Covenant," a short story to appear in Calyx, Vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 2008
• Has been invited to participate as one of several commentators for a video on T.C. Boyle.  The video is a teaching resource for college English classes.
• "Sanctuary," a short story selected for the upcoming anthology Words & Images of Belonging edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
• "You Know," short story in the top 100 storySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2006
• "You Know," a short story in Pif Magazine, Summer 2006
• "Shh," a short story in the online magazine VerbSap, Fall 2006

FELICITY SHOULDERS (Fiction, 2008)

• "Burgerdroid," a short story in Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008

KATEY SCHULTZ (Nonfiction, 2008)

• "Self Portrait," a poem to be published in Perigee, Oct.-Jan. 2007
• "On the Edge of Southern Appalachian Living," a personal narrative in Cadillac Cicatrix, Winter 2007-08
• "Mountains of Tea," a personal narrative in Now & Then, Winter 2008
  
• Second Place, Nonfiction category of the 2007 Marylhurst Writing
  Contest, for "Islandia" which will also be published in the M Review, June 2007
• Third Place Winner, Student Category, Oregon Quarterly 2007 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, for "Meditation on Activism"
• "The Longest Undeclared War in History," an essay in Contemporary Impressions, March 2007
• "To Sculpt a Dream," an essay in Ceramics Art and Perception, Winter 2007
• "On Inner Peace and Patience," an essay in Now & Then, January 2007
• "Booking It," an essay in Our State Magazine, December 2006
• "From the Inside Out," an essay in Ceramics Art and Perception, Summer 2006

JOSHUA REED STUART (Poetry, 2006):

• Has launched an experimental writing Web journal and is seeking submissions: Acetylene Fever
• "Watching a Young Mother Walk With Her Infant Through a Cemetary on the Day Before My Funeral," a poem to be featured at the Festival de Arte Digital in Brazil, September 2007
• "Another Sanctuary" and "Sleeping It Off," poems in In Between Hangovers, Winter 2006-2007
• "Driving With My Father," a poem in PixArtisan Online Magazine, October 2006
• Is traveling in Antarctica where he will be teaching a writing workshop
• "A Few Ideas" and "Why Winter Is No Longer Scary," poems in the Summer Solstice Issue of Ice-Floe, Vol VII, No 1, 2006
• "Directions for Surviving," a poem in Poetry International, Vol 11, 2006
• "I Also Am Growing Old," a poem in New Delta Review, Summer 2006
• Second Place, Alaska Statewide Poetry Contest 2006, Judged by John Haines

• "Watching a Young Mother Walk With Her Infant Through a Cemetery on the Day Before My Funeral," Born, Summer 2006
• "Riding the Train," a poem in The Iowa Review, Spring 2005
• Recipient of the Virginia Hinkley Poetry Award at College of the Redwoods Del Norte, 2004
• "Farmer's Blood” and "Sharing the Son," poems in The White Pelican Review, 2003

THEA SWANSON (Fiction, 2007)

• Has accepted a position teaching English at West Sound Academy beginning in September 2007
• "Stuck in Crafts," a short story in Image, 2008
• "What's in This for Dave," a short story in Our Stories, Spring 2007
• "Cleveland and It Hurts," a short story in Crab Creek Review, Summer/Fall 2007
• "Federal Grant" and "Language of Vermin," poems in Panamowa, May 2007
• Accepted an adjunct faculty position teaching English at Olympic College in Washington, September 2006

BELINDA VICARS (Fiction, 2007)

• "Riding the Synapse Train into Madness," creative non-fiction, forthcoming in Talking River, Lewis-Clark State  College's literary magazine
• "Probabilities of Delight," short story, forthcoming in Kudzu  Magazine, Fall 2008
• "What She Kept," a short story in Dogwood, May 2007

JOHN WALKER (Fiction, 2006)

• "The Atlas Show," a short story, will appear in the online journal Slow Trains, Spring 2008
• "Ain't It Pretty," a short story in StringTown magazine, 2007

GEORGE WALLACE (Poetry, 2009)

• Was recently named to the New York State Council on the Arts Literature Panel, 2008
• Was asked to serve as a correspondent by PEN at the annual World Voices Festival, 2008
• "Sky Is," a CD recorded in Cornwall England, released on CDBABY.COM
• Wrestling Godzilla, a chapbook, selected for publication, Green Panda
  Press, Cleveland, OH
• Summer of Love Summer of Love, a chapbook, selected for publication,
  Shivastan Press, Woodstock NY
• Performed with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Grant Hart (Husker Du) in
  Festival Ecstatique, Amherst MA
• Appeared at Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah, OK; Kenneth Rexroth Festival,
  Cleveland, OH; Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA; Howlfest, NYC; Women's Arts
  International Festival, Kendal, UK
• Named "Next Generation" Beat writer by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Inc
• "Politicking Dulls Poetics," an article in Sunday New York Newsday, June 2007
• "Double Yellow Lines," a poem in The War Papers, Big Bridge, 2007

JENNIFER WHETHAM (Poetry, 2009)

• "The Tulips," "The Possum," and "Jesus Loved the Prostitutes," poems in the online journal The Smoking Poet, 2007

ROBIN WILLIAMS (Poetry, 2007)

• "Burying the Dead" and "Wearing Anxiety," poems in the anthology Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction, Ghost Road Press 2005, finalist for Colorado Book Award

KOON WOON (Poetry, 2009)

• "Fool's Gold," a poem forthcoming in Echoes, 2008
• "A Season in Hell" and "The Empty Mirror," poems posted on "Poetry Soul to Soul," a Web site of international poets hosted by Joneve McCormick from NY, 2008
• "Around Us," "It is Still Dark Outside," and "It was the Best of Years; It was the Worst of Years," poems to be published in Free Verse, 2008
• Invited to read his poetry in Seattle in a mixed-media event sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc. and Apostrophe, on February 23, 2008, 8:00 p.m., 1412 18th Avenue (at Union Street)
  

JAMES ZERNDT (Poetry, 2009)

• "This Jerkwater Life," a short story that was runner-up in Playboy's 2008 College Fiction Contest
• "How to Raise an American Artist," a poem in Slipstream #28, forthcoming in the Spring/Summer of 2008
• "How to Write Poetry," a satirical essay in the online magazine Yankee Pot Roast, August 21, 2007
• "Apology," a poem in the Sunday edition of The Oregonian, July 15, 2007

 

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