Miscellany – Sept. 18, 2020

Chris Dayley and Aimee Roundtree will present on the 2020 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication’s plenary panel, “Administering Programs in a Time of Crisis.” The virtual conference will be held on October 2nd.

CrimeReads named Jon Marc Smith’s book Make Them Cry (co-written with Smith Henderson) one of its 12 books to read in September. The book was also reviewed on September 15^th in the Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-09-15/make-them-cry-jon-marc-smith-and-smith-henderson-profile 

Allan Chavkin’s article, “A Family in Crisis: A Family Systems Theory Approach to Arthur Miller’s ‘I Don’t Need You Any More,’” was recently published in The Arthur Miller Journal.

Two poems by Steve Wilson will appear in A Tether to This World: Mental Health Recovery Stories, an anthology of prose and poetry to be published by Main Street Rag Publishing next spring.

Amanda Scott was interviewed about the importance of revisions to the 2020 U.S. Census form in Popular Science. https://www.popsci.com/story/science/2020-census-impacts-online/

Nancy Wilson has received a grant from the Texas Faculty Association to purchase books supporting her development of a First-Year English course focused on service learning. The books will eventually become a part of the First-Year English Resources Library housed in Flowers Hall.

Susan Morrison edited the World War II poetry of her mother, Joan Wehlen Morrison. The volume has just been published as Another Troy by Finishing Line Press. More information is here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/another-troy-by-joan-wehlen-morrison-edited-by-susan-signe-morrison/?fbclid=IwAR3BKtSjt2gTJYf9nJsg1H4qf_Q4klTCtWiUsSWI9tUXHil0ijRPt1DYXmI

MFA poetry graduate Meg E. Griffitts’ manuscript Hallucinating a Homestead was chosen by Traci Brimhall as the 2020 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize winner.

MATC graduate Kimberly Jeske has accepted the Director of Product Content position at Cloudflare in Austin, Texas.