Congratulations:
Miles Wilson, who retired last August after a career of 35 years at Texas State, has been approved to receive the title of Distinguished Faculty Emeritus. He will be invited to attend the fall convocation ceremony to receive an acknowledgment from President Trauth. Only three faculty from across the university are selected for this honor each year.
Dorothy Lawrenson, a 3rd-year poetry student in the MFA program in Creative Writing, has been named the 2016 Outstanding Master’s Student in the College of Liberal Arts. She will receive an award at this year’s Liberal Arts Awards Day celebration on April 20th, 6 pm, Alkek Teaching Theatre.
Through the Veil, the first book by Colleen (Booker) Halverson, who received her degree in English from Texas State, has just been published by Entangled. The story draws from Colleen’s participation in the Texas State in Ireland program, sponsored by the English Department each summer.
Susan Morrison’s novel, Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife, is a finalist for Foreward Reviews‘ 2015 Indiefab Book of the Year Award: Historical (Adult Fiction).
Vanessa Johnson’s poem “Render Billow” will appear in Field.
In “The Ripple Effect in Faculty-Driven Internationalization,” appearing on pages 36-37 of the IIE Networker (published by the Institute for International Education), author Daris Hale discusses Steve Wilson’s influence on the Fulbright program at Texas State. http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/IIEB/IIEB0116/index.php#/0
Texas State University graduate Enkay Iguh (B.A. in English, 2013), who completed her MFA in fiction at NYU last year, has won the Disquiet International Literary Prize. She will receive a full fellowship to the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and her story “House Girl” will appear in Guernica Magazine.
Scott Mogull will present research on the accuracy of cited claims in the medical literature at the 42nd Conference of the European Medical Writers Association, which will be held in Munich, Germany this May.
Joyland Magazine has published “The Resurrection Act,” a short story by MFA fiction student Shannon Perri: http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/south/resurrection-act
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