MA Alum Diane Critchfield presented a paper at South Dakota University's Women Studies Conference and recently became co-chair of the English Department at Germanna Community College.
July 2009 Archives
MA alum Ashyn Howell presented at NACADA Regional Conference and taught at University of Richmond's Osher Lifelong Institute, a course she designed entitled Women Who Name Fire: An Exploration of Contemporary Female American Poets. She will also teach for Henrico County's Adult Education program at Germanna Community College in the fall.
Third-year MATX student Guido Alvarez has been offered and has accepted a full-time 9-month tenure track position as New Media Arts Faculty at Saint Olaf College, MN.
MFA student Grant White was named the 2009-2010 associate editor for Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts having previously served two semesters interning as the journal's bio editor. White is the eighth individual named to this position; he will recieve and manage all submissions, act as primary contact to contributors, and work with other editors to coordinate content and production tasks.
Award-winning author Rosellen Brown will be the program’s Visiting Distinguished Writer. Brown is the author of five novels, including Half A Heart, Before And After, Civil Wars, Tender Mercies, and The Autobiography Of My Mother. She has also authored three collections of poetry: Some Deaths in the Delta, Cora Fry, and a sequel, Cora Fry’s Pillow Book. Her stories have appeared frequently in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize collections.
