Congratulations:
Ms. Emily Chammah, who was named Emily Smith while at Texas State, spent a year in the MFA Fiction program a couple of years ago before moving to New York. She has just been named one of the 12 winners of the 2016 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is listed at this PEN America site: http://pen.org/2017-pen-literary-awards-winners/.
Eric Leake’s interviews with Doug Hesse and Nancy Sommers have been re-published in the collection Teachers on the Edge: The Writing on the Edge Interviews 1989–2017 (Routledge).
Kitty Ledbetter attended the Texas State Historical Association’s 121st Annual Meeting in Houston March 2-4, where she presented “Textiles, Text, and Media Replication During the Mexican War.”
Miriam Williams has been named a Fellow of the Association for Teachers of Technical Writers. You can read the announcement of Miriam’s achievement here: http://attw.org/about-attw/fellows/2017-williams [archived].
Susan Morrison’s A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages has just been named a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist in three categories: Adult Nonfiction; Women’s Studies; and Young Adult Nonfiction: https://awards.forewordreviews.com/books/a-medieval-womans-companion/.
Suparno Banerjee and Graeme Wend-Walker represented Texas State at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando. Suparno presented “Communism and Soviet Utopias: From Aelita to Andromeda,” and Graeme presented “Virtual Celebrity: Exploring Identity in The Ziggurat, Watkin Tudor Jones’s Pre-Die Antwoord Sci-Fi Opus.” Graeme also read his short story “The Pale Evacuation” in an author’s panel.
Ben Reed’s flash fiction piece, “Brothers,” appears in the March 2017 issue of Ghost Parachute. His essay “Trigger Warnings” appears in the Fall/Winter issue of The Texas Review.
Dorothy Lawrenson will begin pursuit of her PhD in Creative Writing this fall at the University of Edinburgh, supported by a College Research Award to cover fees and provide a stipend.
Rob Tally’s “Giving Shape to Gloom; or, Keeping it Real in The House of the Seven Gables” appears in Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom (AMS Press, 2017). In addition, Rob will be the keynote speaker for “Turning Point(s),” the 30th Annual Graduate Association of French and Italian Students (GAFIS) symposium at the University of Wisconsin, March 31, 2017. His talk is titled “Swerves, Tropes, Peripeties: Toward a Theory of the Turning Point.”