Kirsten Whatley
Writers Workshops Participant, '06
Kirsten Whatley’s short nonfiction piece, “Only Moths,” appeared in PANK‘s Spring/Summer 2018 online issue, and was subsequently translated into Italian. Two of her Hawaii-based food stories recently appeared in AFAR (May 2018) and Saveur (Fall 2018).
http://www.kirstenwhatley.com Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Margaret C. Murray
Screenwriters Workshop, '87
In late September, she launched her 4th novel, Pillow Prayers—Love Ruined, Love Reborn after the Summer of Love, at Fourth Street Fine Art Cooperative in Berkeley, CA where much of her story takes place.
http://writewordspress.com/category/upcoming-book/ Attended with the help of National Endowment for the Arts
Jen Beagin
Writers Workshop participant '11
She recently made the short list for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship for MFAs.
Wayétu Moore
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her new novel, She Would Be King, was released from Graywolf Press on September 11, 2018. She will be joining us next summer for our Published Alumni Reading Series.
https://www.wayetu.com/ Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Poetry Workshop, 2015
Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, will be published by Ecco Books in September, 2018.
http://emily-yoon-poetry.tumblr.com/ Attended with the help of the W C & F Scholarship.
Joanna Solfrian
Poetry Participant, '06
Her second collection, The Mud Room, will be published by MadHat Press in 2019.
http://www.joannasolfrian.com/ Attended with the help of a scholarship and and a work-waiver.
Ama Codjoe
Poetry Participant, '15
Her poem “Etymology of a Mood” was selected by Natasha Trethewey for the Georgia Review‘s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.
https://mailchi.mp/uga/amacodjoe?e=3f09b85e0a Attended with the help of Lucille Clifton Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop Participant ,'14
Her essay “K’E YIL YAL TX’I: SAYING SOMETHING,” first published in Alpinist Magazine and a Bronze medalist in the Family Travel category of the 2018 Solas Awards, was selected for Waymaking, an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape, available now from Vertebrate Publishing. Her story “On the Line” was selected for Grace in Darkness, an anthology of metro D.C. women, available now from American University.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O'Dwyer Scholarship