Congratulations:
Twister Marquiss has been named Director of the Common Experience program.
Roger Jones had two poems accepted to appear later this year in Southern Poetry Anthology VIII: Texas, edited by William Wright.
Amanda Scott attended the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) meeting, which took place from April 12-16th in San Diego, CA, presenting a personal essay entitled “A Good, Smiling Face: The Art of Preservation.”
The Bellingham Review has selected John Blair’s poem, “The Art of Forgetting,” as the winner of the 2017 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, for which he will receive a $1000 prize and publication in the Spring 2018 issue.
The Office of Retention Management named Keith Needham the 2017 Faculty Mentor of the Year for his mentoring of a Texas State student.
“Writing Center Tutor Corps: A Veterans-Tutoring-Veterans Program,” by Nancy Effinger Wilson and Micah Wright, appears in the latest issue of Writing Lab Newsletter.
Miles Wilson’s “Death by Fire” appears in the latest issue of Crazyhorse and was reprinted in Longreads (https://longreads.com/2017/05/08/death-by-fire/), which recently reprinted pieces from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire. “Death by Fire,” along with “Bang” (Southwest Review) and “Body of Work” (Cream City Review), are part of a collection of creative nonfiction about the American West.
MFA fiction graduate Ray Robertson’s 8th novel, 1979, is forthcoming next year. This summer he will serve as the first North American writer-in-residence at the House of Writers in Trsic, Serbia: http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2017/04/17/first-north-american-author-to-serve-as-writer-in-residence-at-house-of-writers [archived].
Octavio Pimentel will present “Not Making America Great: Racist Rhetoric Against Mexicans and African Americans” at the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, to be held in Salt Lake City this coming October.
Susan Morrison’s Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife (Top Hat Books, 2015) has been selected as a 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Award finalist in the category of Adult Fiction. This July, she’ll present “Making Kin with St. Francis, Pope Francis, and Francis the Ladybug: Ecological and Ethical Tenancy in the Anthropocene” as an invited lecture at Universität Würzburg (Germany) as part of the series Vorträge am Interdisziplinären Forum für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS).