MATC alumna Meghalee Das, who is completing her PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University, will become an Assistant Professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University beginning Fall Semester 2024.

MFA Fiction student Charmaine Denison-George’s essay, “Impedimenta” was anthologized in Black Diaspora: Tales and Poems from the Sons and Daughters of Africa, edited by Monique Franz (Kinsman Avenue Publishing, 2024). Charmaine’s working-in-progress thesis has also been accepted for workshop with Madeleine Blais at the Eckerd College Writers in Paradise conference (January 2024).

Cathlin Noonan’s poem “That Winter, I Find Your Father’s Arrest Notice in a 1940 Newspaper” was recently published in The Citron Review: https://citronreview.com/2023/12/29/that-winter-i-find-your-fathers-arrest-notice-in-a-1940-newspaper/.

Ben Austin’s short story “Il Faut Ecouter Mac Doe,” has been published in J Journal and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

MFA Poetry candidate Em Fullenwider’s poem “Ode to a Fishman” will be published in the Winter 2024 issue of Reverie Literary Magazine.

Rob Tally’s work was recently featured in a Chinese publication, Jianqing Tuo and Yuan Zhang’s “Existential Predicament and Breakthrough of Literary Space Theory: A Study on Robert T. Tally Jr.’s Theory of Literary Cartography” in Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 43.4 (2024), 82–92: https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol43/iss4/9.

Nithya Sivashankar’s essay titled “‘Tell Pebble All About It’: Displacement and Distancing in Contemporary Picturebooks about Arab Refugees” has been published in the latest issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. The essay can be accessed here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/918613

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