Month: May 2020

M.A. Alumni Rachel Hancock (M.A. 2013) was recently hired as the Associate Director of Development Proposals with University Advancement’s Office of Development. In this position, Rachel serves as principal writer, editor, and project manager for various projects (e.g., grant proposals, proposal templates, newsletters, benefactor profiles, stewardship reports, etc.). Rebecca Newth Harrison (M.A. 1988) will have…Continue Reading M.A. and Ph.D. Alumni Updates Spring 2020

Ralph Adamo (M.F.A. 1974) was recently promoted to full professor at Xavier University of Louisiana and also appointed editor of Xavier University Press. (He has been editor of its international literary magazine for several years now.) In January 2020, his eighth book of poems was published – All the Good Hiding Places (Black Widow Press)….Continue Reading M.F.A. Alumni Updates Spring 2020

Jeremy Billingsley (B.A. 2012) is both teaching creative writing for a grad school online and building the creative writing program at Crowder College. He also tutors student athletes at the U of A. He is writing consistently. He is currently working on two novels – one is autofiction – and he’s just had four more short…Continue Reading B.A. Alumni Updates Spring 2020

Nightbird Books, a supporter and favorite haunt of English students, faculty, and staff for fourteen years, closed its doors for the last time on February 29, 2020. Thank you, Lisa Sharp, for all the excellent book recommendations and for providing a place where lovers of literary art could gather and feel at home—we will miss you!  Read the following report by Jesse Greenhill,…Continue Reading Nightbird Books Closes

M.A. alum Joe Sutliff Sanders has enjoyed a successful career researching and teaching children’s and adolescent literature. He is especially passionate about children’s literature’s ability to examine difference and contest marginalization. His most recent passion, as you see here, is “punting” on the river Cam between his scholarly duties in his new job at Cambridge…Continue Reading Update from Joe Sutliff Sanders (M.A. ’97)

Gustavo Nelson (a.k.a. Tav Falco) (BA ’72) made an appearance on BBC2 London, Sunday’s episode of “The Jools Holland Radio Show,” on December 15. Tav was interviewed by Jools, and the two performed a song together, accompanied by Panther Burns’s producer/instrumentalist Mario Monterosso. Tav’s latest LP, Cabaret of Daggers, is out now on ORG Music…Continue Reading Interview with Tav Falco (B.A. ’72)

In our recent interview with M.A. and Ph.D. alum Lindsey Panxhi, an Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, we asked her about her favorite memories of being a student in the graduate program at the U of A. We also got an update on her first four years working at OBU and her…Continue Reading Interview with Lindsey Panxhi (M.A. ’11; Ph.D. ’16)

This spring, we interviewed B.A. alum Macie Reynolds, who was recently promoted to news producer with 40/29 News. We asked her about the way her minor in Political Science enhanced her major in English and her decision to pursue an alt-ac career path. We also learned about the recent publication of not one but two of her…Continue Reading Interview with Macie Reynolds (B.A. ’19)

M.F.A. alum John Hennessy is the Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and poetry editor of The Common. He is also the author of two collections of poetry, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims, and co-translator, with Ostap Kin, of A New Orthography, a collection of selected poems by…Continue Reading Reflection from John Hennessy (M.F.A. ’96)

Toni Jensen teaches in our Creative Writing program and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. This year, she is enjoying several major accomplishments: a Creative Writing Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts; the publication of her memoir-in-essays, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land; and her promotion to a tenured position here at the University of Arkansas….Continue Reading Faculty Spotlight: Toni Jensen