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Superstition Review Reading Series Reading 1: February 25, 2008
Patricia Colleen Murphy teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. Her writing has appeared in over 22 literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, and American Poetry Review. She has received awards from the Associated Writing Programs and the Academy of American Poets, Glimmer Train Press, The GSU Review, and The Southern California Review. She just received an Artist's Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Kristin LaCroix lives in Florence, Arizona and teaches creative writing at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. She is the recipient of the 2001 Katherine C. Turner Award in Poetry from the Academy of American Poets . Her community outreach projects include working with Alzheimer's patients through poetry, and teaching in the Tempe Community Writers' Project. She worked as an Education Specialist on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Reservation where she taught creative writing workshops and led the community children in producing a literary journal of their poems, stories, and artwork. Elizabyth Hiscox lives and writes in Tempe, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing and composition at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus. An Assistant Poetry Editor for the online journal 42 Opus, she was also a 2007 Poet-in-Residence at St. Chad 's College of Durham University, England. Her work has most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Foundation, and The Journal of Modern Literature, and is soon to be featured as part of the Seventh Avenue Streetscape in central Phoenix. Douglas S. Jones teaches creative writing and composition at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. He has worked as part of Poesia del Sol at Mayo Clinic, a program that won the Governor's Arts Award for writing poetry for palliative care patients. He recently served as Poet in Residence at St. Chad 's College at the University of Durham, England. He has poems placed in Blackbird, Clackamas Literary Review, Cake Train, Potomac Review, and others. Reading 2: March 31, 2008 The second reading of the series featured Charles Jensen, Beth Staples, Aimee Baker, Matthew Brennan, and Marqueshia Wilson, all writers from the ASU Virginia G. Piper Center for creative writing. You can access a podcast of the reading here.
Charles Jensen is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon, which was a finalist for the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Award. In 2007, he received an Artist's Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have appeared in Bloom, FIELD, The Journal, New England Review, No Tell Motel, Quarterly West, Washington Square, and West Branch.
Beth Staples received her MFA in Fiction Writing from ASU in 2007, where she taught composition and creative writing before joining the Piper Center Staff as Managing Editor. Her work is forthcoming in The Portland Review and Phoebe.
Aimée Baker received a B.A. in History and Creative Writing from St. Lawrence University. She works at the Piper Center coordinating the Piper Online Book Club and assisting with grants and programs. She is a fiction student in the MFA program at ASU, recipient of the 2007 1st place Swarthout Prize for poetry and 2nd place for fiction, a 2007 Piper Travel Fellow for India and China, as well as a 2007 Piper Summer Fellow. She is also a prose editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. Her work is forthcoming in The Southeast Review.
Matthew Brennan is a second-year MFA student in fiction at ASU, where he works as the Graduate Assistant for Global Engagement at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and is a prose editor for the Hayden's Ferry Review. He is a novelist and screenwriter, and his short fiction has received several awards, including Colgate University 's Lasher Prize, and an honorable mention for ASU's Swarthout Award.
Marqueshia Wilson graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in English. Before joining the Piper Center for Creative Writing staff she taught first-year composition and writing reflective essays as part of Writing Programs. She is a second year fiction student in the MFA program at ASU, a 2007 Piper Travel Fellow to Canada, a 2008 Piper Travel Fellow to China, and an aspiring novelist.
Reading 3: April 28, 2008 The third reading of the series featured our creative writing students and the launch of our premier issue. You can access a podcast of the reading here. Our student readers were: Sarah Snyder, Junior, Writing, Literature and Film major from Tempe, Arizona |
