CREATIVE WRITING AT SDSU SENDS WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Brandon Lussier who received a NEA Literary Translation Fellowship just a few months after graduation from SDSU, and has new work in the summer 2011 issue of the Harvard Review. Recently he accepted a job as Assistant Director of International Programs at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Martin Woodside, whose anthology of translations from Romanian, Of Gentle Wolves, was just published by Calypso editions. It has received rave reviews. Martin began working on some of those translations while still at SDSU and completed the manuscript while on the Fulbright Fellowship to Bucharest, right after his graduation.

Monika Zobel, who has just received a Fulbright Fellowship to translate poetry in Austria. Her fellowship was given on the basis of creative work she has done at SDSU last year. Her recent publication in Guernica: a Journal of Arts and Politics was reprinted widely in such journals as Dallas News and India News, and elsewhere. Her work was also included in Best New Poets anthology.

Piotr Florkzyk, a recent graduate whose second book of poetry in translation, Building the Barricade and Other poems by Anna Swir, was just published, to wide critical acclaim.

Ryan Forsythe a current student, whose first novel, Dick Cheney Saves Paris, will be released on August 30, the same day Dick Cheney's own novel--er, memoir comes out.

Shane Roeschlein whose piece "War Splicing" was published in the Journal of Experimental Fiction 39: Journal of  Experimental Fiction Anthologies.

Sarah Marsh-Rebelo a current student, whose poem, 'Raymond'  from her first book of  poetry, 'Over My Shoulder' has been accepted in 'Foothill Journal of Poetry.”

Laura Hoopes whose memoir, Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling, was released on May 2, 2011 and reached 5th best seller among biographies of scientists and among biographies of educators on Amazon.com.  She is currently on the book tour. Recently, she has also received a fellowship to Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA.

Joel Cox whose short fiction has appeared in Black Boot, Feathertale Review, Writing Disorder and several other independent publications.

Margaret Hess current student, whose work was recently published in Pleiades, Rumpus, and also in 42opus and Front Porch Journal. She has received a fellowship from New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Chrissy Rikkers, MFA alum's publication credits:
"For Eitan Lior Gobi" -- Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2009
"I Was Wonderful to See You" and "Not a Prayer" -- Portland Review, Issue #56 #1
"The Grace of Your Departing Feet" and "Baking a Cake on her Father's Birthday" -- Tidal Basin Review
"Procession for Marlon Leeds" -- Basilica Review, Issue #2

Ephraim Sommers, current students whose 2 poems, "Because the Body is Made of Water" and "On Remembering", are published in "New Madrid"

Tina Cabrera, current student whose poem "House of Blues" was accepted by City Works.

Martin Woodside, current student whose chapbook was published by Pudding House Press and who has received Fulbright to work on his translations of Romanian Poetry.

Piotr Florczyk, current student whose book of translation from Polish, Been and Gone, has just been published by Marick Press (a press that publishes such distinguished authors as Franz Wright, Alicia Ostriker and Jerome Rothenberg) and Piotr also received Individual Artist Grant from the Delaware Arts Council for his own poems.

Deniz Perrin, current student whose book of translations from Turkish is coming out from BOA editions (a well known literary press that published such authors as Li Young Lee, Richard Wilbur and William Stafford) and whose translations of Hikmet has been included in Harper Collins' Anthology of International Poetry, her work has been published in Atlanta Review, and other distinguished journals.

Jenny Minniti Shipey, current student whose chapbook was just published in Ireland by Munster Center for literature as the winner of international poetry award. Jenny was invited to participate in the internationally acclaimed literary festival with some of the best living Irish poets.
 
Jan Lee Ande whose books are Instructions for Walking on Water (Ashland Poetry Press, 2001) and Reliquary (Texas Review Press, 2003). She teaches poetry, poetics, and history of religions at Union Institute & University and is the recipient of several poetry awards.
 
Jane Tassi, winner of the  Bordighera Poetry Prize. She now teaches at Southwestern College. Tasi has published poems in Rolling Stone Magazine, Viet Nam Generation, and broadsides were published by much praised Brighton Press.

Jim D. Babwe, finalist for San Diego Book Award, whose work appears in numerous publications.

Richard Robbins who is the author of  The Invisible Wedding, was published by the University of Missouri Press and Famous Persons We Have Known published by Eastern Washington University Press. His awards awards and fellowships include those from The Loft and the McKnight Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board, The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Poetry Society of America. He currently directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
 
Richard Katrovas who is recipient of numerous wards and founding director of Prague Summer Program, the first program of its kind in the nation. Author of six books of poetry, a book of short stories, two memoirs and a novel, he teaches at Western Michigan University.
 
Christopher Buckley who is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry for 2007-2008. His most recent book is And the Sea from The Sheep Meadow press in New York. In 2008 his fifteenth and sixteenth books were published: Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007 from Tupelo Press and Rolling the Bones from Eastern Washington University Press. Alcatrez Editions published Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California which he edited with Gary Young
 
Garrick Davis, who founded Contemporary Poetry review and now lives in Washington, DC, where he works for NEA. His poetry and criticism have appeared in McSweeneys, Verse, Slope and many other publications. he edited Child of the Ocmulgee: the Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville, which was published by Michigan State University Press
 
Frances Payne Adler who is the author of four previous books including Raising The Tents, published by Calyx Books.
 
Sherod Santos who is the author of five books of poetry: The Perishing (W.W. Norton & Co.) The Pilot Star Elegies, which won a Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize and was both a National Book Award Finalist and one of five nominees for The New Yorker Book Award; The City of Women; The Southern Reaches; and Accidental Weather, which was selected for the National Poetry Series. Santos's poems appear regularly in such journals as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The Yale Review; his essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Kenyon Review, and Parnassus. His awards include the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine, a Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay, and the appointment as Robert Frost Poet at the Frost house in Franconia, New Hampshire. He has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a professor of English at the University.