MFA poetry student Nour Al Ghraowi’s new piece, “How I Entered a Pandemic while Healing a War’s Wounds,” was recently published in Porter House Review. https://porterhousereview.org/articles/%E2%80%AFhow-i-entered-a-pandemic-while-healing-from-a-wars-wounds/
Miriam Williams has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Technical Communication, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Technical Communicationpublishes quantitative and qualitative research and serves technical communicators in academia and industry. Her appointment begins January 2021. See STC announcement here: https://www.stc.org/notebook/2020/09/21/meet-the-new-editor-of-technical-communication/
Allan Chavkin’s “Bucharest and Chicago: A Tale of Two Cities in Saul Bellow’s The Dean’s December” is available online in Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_261-1
Susan Morrison was interviewed for “What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper Was Invented?” in Life’s Little Mysteries series for Live Science. (Sept 20, 2020). https://www.livescience.com/toilet-paper-history.html
Rob Talley presented a keynote address titled, “The Logic of the Situation,” at the Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts conference. The virtual conference was jointly sponsored by the Chronotopic Cartographies project of Lancaster University and the British Library in London.
In an essay in Rogue Women Writers, Jon Marc Smith and co-author Smith Henderson discuss the process of creating the protagonist for their novel, Make Them Cry. https://www.roguewomenwriters.com/2020/09/smith-henderson-and-jon-marc-smith-go.html
MATC graduate Gayle Davidson has accepted a Usability Experience (UX) Writer position at Thomson Reuters in Austin, Texas.
MFA fiction student Ben McCormick’s new piece,“White Hugs: On Waiting for a Lisa Murkowski Vote,” was published in Entropy.
https://entropymag.org/white-hugs-on-waiting-for-a-lisa-murkowski-vote/
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