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