Congratulations:

Manny Pina, MARC graduate and current instructor at St. Edward’s University, has been accepted into the PhD program in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.
MFA fiction student Ramiro G. Hinojosa’s short story, “Rest & Relaxation,” will be published in the Fall 2017 issue of Huizache.
MA Literature student Thais Rutledge attended the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in mid-February, presenting “Navigating Social Spaces: Ideology, Sexuality, and Memory in Mrs. Dalloway.”
Mark Busby attended the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association meeting in Albuquerque Feb 15-18 and read from his new poetry collection, Through Our Years, at a creative writing session.
MATC alumna Jennifer Cleveland has accepted a position as Business Analysis Coordinator with Sprint Accessibility. She will provide communication support for deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, and assist with proposal management and RFP (request  for proposal) processes.
MFA poetry student Ashton Kamburoff has accepted the position of poetry editor for Profane Journal. Profane publishes a print issue yearly in the winter and accepts poetry, fiction, flash, essays and interviews.
“Orientation,” a story by MFA fiction student Shannon Perri, will be published next month in fields magazine.
Octavio Pimentel has been invited to serve as a symposium scholar for the September 2017 Watson pre-conference symposium, and as a keynote speaker for the 2018 Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. The conference and symposium, whose theme will be “Making Future Matter,” will both to be held at Louisville, Kentucky. The Thomas Watson conference is considered one of the top tier rhetoric and composition conferences.
Steve Wilson and Vanessa Couto Johnson took part in a reading sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest this March.  The event, moderated by Will Jensen, celebrated the recent publication of the anthology Texas Weather, in which Steve and Vanessa’s poetry appears.