MISCELLANY – NOVEMBER 15, 2022

MATC graduate Brooke Turner is the new Vice President of STEAM Learning at Thinkery in Austin, Texas. Brooke is a co-founder of Kwaddle and recently joined the Board of Directors of 3 Day Startup.

Geneva Gano recently presented a talk titled “Possession and Transcendence: Pueblo Dance and Modernist Ekphrasis” at the Western Literature Association Conference in Santa Fe, NM. Geneva Gano’s essay “Modernist Activities and Native Acts in and around Northern New Mexico” was recently published in the Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms, edited by Kirby Brown, Stephen Ross, and Alana Sayers.

Susan Morrison presented a talk entitled “The Three Most Important Words in German: When ‘letters are considered sealed containers’” in a session entitled “Secret Police Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Misinterpretation and the Secret Police in the Eastern Bloc.” She presented at the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) annual convention in Chicago, IL on November 10th.

Cyrus Cassells’s book The World That the Shooter Left Us is featured in Snowflakes in a Blizzard and was recently reviewed in Good River Review.

MFA poetry student Sara Bawany’s poem for dark-skinned girls was recently published in ArLiJo – Arlington Literary Journal.

Sandra Sidi’s essay “Searching for the Clear” (with Major Lauren Serrano) was an Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction and Essay Contest 2022.

Vanessa Couto Johnson has two poems, “chicken alanine” and “reddened monkeys-in-a-barrel,” out now in Landfill Journal.

Steph Grossman’s short story “Likeness” was accepted for publication in the literary magazine Joyland and will be published in May 2023.

MFA poetry candidate ​Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton has two new poems, “Chorus” and “Sunset/Flood,” coming out in the online edition of  San Antonio Review. Also, Miracle Monocle  accepted two of Joshua’s poems, “Vagary Ships” and “Interior Displacements,” for their next issue.

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