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Francis Payne Adler (MFA Poetry 1989) spoke to Cynthia Hogue’s Women’s Poetry class in March 2004 while in the Phoenix area for the ASU Writers’ Conference. Adler currently directs the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at California State-Monterey and has published four collections of poetry, including her latest: The Making of a Matriot. She has received many awards for her work, among them an NEA in poetry. Jorn Ake (MFA Poetry 1999) received a $5,000 Creative Writing Fellowship in 2003 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to help support work on his current work in progress. He currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is working on a book of poetry and photography. Trista Baldwin’s (MFA Playwriting 1999) play, Patty Red Pants was named “Best Off-Off Broadway Play of 2002-2003” by Showbiz Weekly and “got raves” at the New York Fringe Festival. Patty Red Pants played in November 2003 at the Stray Cat Theatre in Phoenix to positive reviews by local critics. Her newly revised version of Electropussy was produced at the Stark Raving Theater in Portland, OR summer 2003. H. Lee Barnes (MFA Fiction 1992) published his latest book, The Lucky (U of Nevada P) in September 2003. Alan Berks (MFA Playwriting 2000) is living in Minneapolis, MN where he received a Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center. The Center recently performed a reading of his play Music Lovers. Brian Borowka (MFA Playwriting 2001) is coordinating the summer program for John Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Ayse Papatya Bucak (MFA Fiction 1999) was recently appointed as Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. William Carton (MFA Playwriting 2001) is at work in Chicago with Starfarm Productions as a television, film, and internet content writer. Jose Casas (MFA Playwriting 2003) had his play The Vine performed on ASU’s mainstage theatre in March 2003. Teatro Bravo recently produced Casas’ play 14 in its fall “Triple Rep Fest 2003” in Phoenix, and the play has been invited to Phoenix College, ASU East, and the University of Georgia in Athens, spring 2004. A student of Angelic Chapman's (BAE English Education 2002) recently won a California Writing Project award. Ms. Chapman teaches high school in Stockton, CA. Jeanne E. Clark (MFA Poetry 1990) currently teaches creative writing and literature at California State University, Chico. In April 2004 Bryan Curd (MA English 1970) received the 2004-2005 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art. Curd is currently a PhD student at ASU and works in the ASU Art Museum. Chris Danowski (MFA Fiction 1992) had his latest play Underflood produced by Phoenix’s Theater in My Basement in December 2003. Danowski also produced the highly successful performance art festival, Teatro Caliente, Fall 2003 in Phoenix. Oliver de la Paz (MFA Poetry 1999) currently teaches creative writing at Utica College in Utica, New York. Jean Ekman Adams (BA English 1964) was named 2003 Arizona Author and Illustrator of the Year by the Arizona Library Association. This follows other successes in children’s literature by Ekman Adams, including two Smithsonian Awards, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the South West Book Award, and selection as a finalist in the Arizona Young Readers contest. Rigoberto Gonzáles (MFA Fiction 1997) published his novel, Crossing Vines (U of Oklahoma Press) in September 2003. It is Volume 2 of the Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas series. Hewas a featured author at the Northern Arizona Book Festival in Flagstaff, April 16-18, 2004. Laurel Haines (MFA Playwriting 2000) had her play The Dianalogues published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003 by Smith and Kraus, to be available in 2004. Julie Hensley (MFA Fiction 2002) is a faculty member at Prescott College. Recently, she published “Lucy’s Wake” in the Winter 2003/2004 issue of The Santa Clara Review. Melissa Hill (MFA Playwriting 2000) was appointed Guidance Counselor in 2003-2004 at Apache Trail High School, Apache Junction, where she teaches and works with students in the Creative Writing Club. Glenn Irvin (PhD English) was promoted to Dean of the East College at ASU East, October 2003. Hershman John (MFA Poetry 1998) teaches English composition within American Indian Studies at Phoenix College. October 2003, Tayari Jones (MFA Fiction 2000) won the Hurston-Wright Awards’ first place in debut fiction for her novel, Leaving Atlanta, which was also selected as “One of the Best Books of the Year” by The Washington Post. The prize was $10,000. Rosemary A. King (PhD English 2000) is an officer in the U.S. Air Force; she is currently stationed at the Pentagon. Her new book, Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present, was just published by the University of Arizona Press (2004). Tori King (MFA Playwriting 1997) was recently featured in a full page color advertisement for IBM in the New York Times. She also was invited to participate in SPARK at the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, CA where she wrote and performed the piece “Secrets and Lies” in May 2003. Kimberly Klett (MA English 1996), a teacher at Dobson High School in Mesa, AZ, was one of only fifteen teachers in the country to receive a 2003-2004 Mandel Fellowship from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ruth Ellen Kocher (MFA Poetry 1994, Ph.D. 1999) is the author of One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press, 2003) When the Moon Knows You're Wandering (New Issues Press, 2002), winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry and Desdemona's Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Callaloo, Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Missouri Review, African American Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Antioch, among others. She lives in St. Louis, MO and teaches literature and writing in the MFA program at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Luke Krueger (MFA Playwriting 2003) is currently Faculty Associate in the ASU English Department. He recently published an article in Academic Exchange Quarterly titled, "Jamming Econo: Punk Aesthetics in Theatre." Also, two of his plays, Burning Times and Exit, Cute Ed, were named semi-finalist and finalist (respectively) for the Edward Albee New Frontier Playwriting Lab in Valdez, Alaska. Bethany Lewis (BA English, Political Science 2003) is a legislative analyst for the Center for Arizona Policy, a nonprofit organization promoting pro-family laws and values in Arizona. Summer 2003 she was a Witherspoon Fellow at the Family Research Council. Christopher Miller (MFA Playwriting 2003) recently starred in Teatro Bravo’s production of 14, a play written by fellow alum Jose Casas, which will also tour to Phoenix College, ASU East, and University of Georgia. Miguel Murphy (MFA Poetry 2001) published his book of poetry, A Book Called Rats: Poems in September 2003 (Christopher Howell). Cindy Nahrwold (MA English 1984) is an Assistant Professor and graduate coordinator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Department of Rhetoric and Writing. Barbara Nelson (MFA Fiction 1991) just completed a year as Visiting Writer in the ASU Department of English. Dianne Nelson (MFA Fiction 1990) recently judged the Utah Arts Council Annual Writing Award contest, selecting the $5,000 winner for 2003. Laurelann Porter (MFA Playwriting 2003) was invited to Denmark to participate in the “Roots in Transit,” the Fourth Women’s International Theatre Festival at the Odin Teatret in January 2004. She also recently performed a segment of “Idle Worship or the Day I Realized My Dad Was Short” for the Teatro Caliente festival in Phoenix, October 2003. Susan Rockwell (PhD English 2001) recently won an award for “Best Online Teacher” at Rio Salado Community College. She was selected from a pool of more than 900 teachers for the honor. Keith Slim-Tolagai (BA English 1998) is director of mentorship at the organization, Futures for Children, in Albuquerque, NM. Jennifer Spiegel (MFA Fiction 2003) has had numerous stories accepted for publication recently, including “Bacon and Sugar” in Controlled Burn, “The Mickey Rourke Saga” in Nimrod International Journal, and “Advent” in The Seattle Review. Her piece, “Nipples Beads Mealie Pap” was excerpted on the Santa Fe Writers Project website — www.sfwp.org. Margo Tamez (MFA Poetry 1997), after teaching writing courses at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and ASU-East, now teaches in the English Department/Creative Writing program at Pima Community College. Wendy White Ring (MFA Fiction 1991) is currently teaching community writing workshops through the Writer’s Voice. Leslie Wootten (MFA Fiction, 2001) writes regularly for and is published in The Bloomsbury Review. Richard Yanez (MFA Fiction) is a visiting writer at New Mexico State University. |
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