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I'm back in New York, living in Red Hook, aka "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "future home of IKEA." Glimmer Train recently accepted a short story I wrote, though they told me it won't be published until 2009 or so. I've also semi-recently appeared in The Barcelona Review. Currently I'm working as a private investigator like in the Hall & Oates song. Seriously.
Pamela Benbow (MFA 2001), pbenbow@post.harvard.edu
I've done a couple of non-traditional projects recently. 1) As a classical archaeologist with a specialty in a weird ancient Greek pottery shape belonging to women's goddess worship, I published a review article of the book Epinetron. Storia di una forma ceramica fra archeologia e cultura, by Chiara Mercati, in the American Journal of Archaeology, April 2006. 2) As an advocate for animals mostly in Greece and Israel-Palestine, I write (at the request of Best Friends Animal Society www.bestfriends.org ) pieces featuring amazing people who help animals in horrid situations in Israel and Serbia. Here are a few: link 1 link 2 link 3
Peter Biello (MFA 2008), psb4055@uncw.edu
I write news stories for the local public radio station, WHQR-FM. My work has appeared on National Public Radio. My essays and criticism have appeared on bustedhalo.com and compulsivereader.com. I am currently working on a novel about friendship.
George ("Beau") Bishop, Jr. (MFA 2001)
An exciting summer here in Baton Rouge. While finishing up my thesis for a second (and certainly inferior) masters in Teaching English as a Second Language from the School for International Training in Vermont, I sold my first novel to Random House. It's actually my fifth novel, but the first one that's publishable. Called To My Daughter On Her Fifteenth Birthday, it's in the form of a long letter from a mother to her runaway daughter. Due out early 2010. Meantime, I'll be teaching English in Japan with a University of Montana program at Toyo University in Tokyo. Hai!
Emma Bolden (MFA 2005)
I've published three chapbooks: How to Recognize a Lady, published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press' Quartet Series; The Mariner's Wife, with Finishing Line Press; and The Sad Epistles, which is forthcoming with Dancing Girl Press. I received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and am a finalist for a Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship. My work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Feminist Studies, Linebreak, and other journals. I am currently a visiting assistant professor of English in Creative Writing at Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY, and the poetry editor of the Georgetown Review.
Erin Bond (MFA 2008)
Lately, I've been filling my days by revising and rewriting my thesis, working part-time from home, playing with my cats, wanting to raise chickens in my backyard, researching organic meats, wishing Harris Teeter would hurry up and open in Leland, and volunteering in Port City Community Church's biblical counseling department. My essay "The Strong Force" is forthcoming in Quarterly West.
Douglass Bourne (MFA 2009)
I was out walking the other day. The afternoon sun slanted into that small area between my sunglasses and eyebrow. I came across a man walking a dog. It had a bobbed tail and short white fur with large brown spots down its back and sides. Before long, I was sitting on the sidewalk, scratching the dogs ears and chest, and the dog was attempting to lick my cheek. It was a grand experience. I didn't realize until the man tugged the dog away with the leash that the only words I said to him were, "Do you mind if I pet your dog?"
Beth Cagle Burt (MFA 2007)
I am the Co-editor of the Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets and the Chair of the Charlotte Writers’ Club Fiction Contest. My poem “On the Homefront” was published in Slipstream. Publications: Poetry chapbook, "The Fearless Tattoo." Individual poems have appeared in Slipstream, Tulane Review, Blue Collar Review, New York Quarterly, and numerous other journals across the US, the UK, and Australia. My photography has appeared in dozens of journals including The GSU Review, Sanskrit, Maelstrom, and Main Street Rag. I have taught Creative Writing and English courses at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and Cape Fear Community College. www.kakalak.net BA: Psychology and English, UNC Charlotte. MA: English, UNC Charlotte.
Bill Carty (MFA 2007)
I am finishing up my thesis, tentatively titled Nuh-uh, and have poems forthcoming in the New Orleans Review and Blue Mesa Review.
Patrick Culliton (MFA 2006)
My work has recently appeared or will soon in jubilat, The Journal, The Hat, Columbia Poetry Review, Third Coast, and Tarpaulin Sky. Two poems will be available on-line, via Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Rabbit Light Movies in December. I also assisted (as a second camera) Joshua for filming of his documentary Made a Machine By Describing the Landscape, a tour documentary of the band Califone. We were a two member audience in his living room, where two of the members played songs on the couch. My manuscript, Point Everywhere, took runner-up in the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions. I currently live in Chicago, where I am a lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Kate Cumiskey (MFA 2006)
I live in coastal Central Florida, where I teach middle school Exceptional Student Ed. Science and am the surfing columnist for NSB Magazine. My work appears in recent issues of Crazyhorse and Beloit Poetry Journal.
Daren Dean (MFA 2003)
I am teaching composition this semester at William Woods University and the University of Missouri-Columbia. I'm currently revising a new novel despite it all in an effort to write something that will grab you all by the throat, as Larry Brown once put it. Our kids, Claira and Finn, are fine. Claira is a huge fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She's always getting the copy of The Last Tycoon off my bookshelf and proceeding to do impromptu readings from it. Here's a link to the blog I created for my composition classes at MU. I call the class: The Rough South: Grit Lit Composition. http://comp.missouri.edu/blogs/deandj/ I've been published in The Chattahoochee Review, Image, Poetry Southeast, and storySouth.
Nina DeGramont (MFA 2006)
My first novel, Gossip of the Starlings, will be published by Algonquin books in 2008. I'm also the co-editor (along with Karen E. Bender) of an anthology, Choice, which will be published in the Fall of 2007 by MacAdam Cage and includes essays by several of our UNCW cohorts -- Stephanie Andersen, Janet Ellerby, Kimi Faxon, Sarah Messer, and Ashley Talley. My short story, “The Provision Tree,” will appear in the Fall issue of Isotope. The essay I wrote in Charles Siebert's class, "Water Children," will appear in the fall issue of The Harvard Review.
Brian DeVido (MFA 2001)
My wife and I moved to Saint Petersburg, Florida, in 2006. I recently had a short story published on fivechapters.com and am currently working on a screenplay.
Renée Dixon (MFA 2007)
I spent six months crewing on a sailboat in the South Pacific. The yacht departed from New Zealand and sailed through Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga.
Jason Frye (MFA 2005)
My poem “Ubehebe Crater to Teakettle Junction” appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Ellipsis. Kate Cumiskey (MFA 2006) and I published an excerpt from our interview with the late Robert Creeley in Crazyhorse. Two poems, “Beltline Lights,” and “Buffalo Creek,” appear in the anthology Coal: A Poetry Anthology from Blair Mountain Press. On October 20, 2006, Lauren Dzubak (MFA 2004) and I were married in Southport, North Carolina.
Paul Gasbarra (MFA 2003)
I landed a job here in New York, one that pays a livable wage. I'm doing research and writing for a non-partisan public opinion and civic engagement non-profit organization called Public Agenda. I've been here since January and I'm enjoying it. I'm working on a higher education survey right now, polling folks about their thoughts on colleges and running the organization's weblog. Here are a couple of links: link 1 link 2
Chrysa Gumbs (BFA, 2007) chrysa.gumbs@us.army.mil
Currently stationed at Fort Benning, GA, home of the infantry and world's largest concentration of fire ants. Not much room for creativity down here... writing counseling statements for subordinates who chew gum in formation and essays about how being an army officer relates to the Constitution. Heading back to Wilmington to recruit in a few weeks and attend as many alumni functions as possible.
Kianoosh (Kelly) Hashemzadeh (BFA 2006)
I have recently relocated to Montreal to attend McGill University's Institue of Islamic Studies where I am pursing my MA.
Kirsten Holmstedt (MFA 2006), kaholmstedt@yahoo.com, www.bandofsistersbook.com
My book, Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq is being published by Stackpole Books and will be on sale July 4. In January, I was involved in a book forum with a dozen other authors who have written about the war in Iraq. The forum was held in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C. , and was open to congress members and the public. On the first weekend in June, I am going to participate in BookExpo America in New York City. I can’t wait!! Springtime in the Big Apple.
Shawna Kenney (MFA 2007)
I am serving as the new music columnist for Currents/The Wilmington Star News, and will be reading from my thesis (Girl in the Pit: Punk Rock Essays & Interviews '86 - '06) at the San Francisco Public Library on May 7 as part of their Radar Reading Series.
Gwendolyn Knapp (MFA 2006)
Finishing up a collection of vulgar short stories and rewriting my novel. I have a story out in Crazyhorse Vol. 70 and another coming out in Quarterly West. I also have an essay forthcoming in the 20th Anniversary Issue of Hayden's Ferry Review. Going to surf Costa Rica this July.
John F. Loonam, Jr. (BFA 2007)
Summer of Chaos. I went on a Caribbean cruise after graduation where I won the first contest I've ever entered. Afterwards, I moved back to Bettie, NC from Wilmington. Moved again, 500 feet away from my mobile home into another one. I had to demolish the previous one. Shot my whole summer. I also had a summer photography gig shooting passengers' portraits for a harbor cruise line. My car just recently got rear-ended while entering my driveway, like a similar wreck three years ago. Serious cosmetic damage. What's the limit for total-loss insurance claims on one vehicle? Add in a stolen vehicle, jury duty, and... A new edition of a fabulous 1958 nonfiction book with illustrations to be published by UNCW's publishing laboratory (title still under confidential status) , which I was project editor for in a pub lab internship (spring 2007), will be listed in John F. Blair's spring 2008 catalog. I continue working as a freelance copyeditor with enough of a workload to make a living while I write. My first completed story "Big Iron Lawman" **is in the mail** to L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest.
Robert Lurie (MFA 2005)
My essay "The Theater of the Mind, RIP" will be appearing in the August issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The piece deals with a subject near and dear to my heart: the magical art of radio drama and comedy, which met its sad end with the advent of television in the 1950s. The publication of this article, along with the invitation to submit further pieces to Chronicles, marks a huge step forward in a year that has already been very kind to me. My nonfiction book No Certainty Attached (a biography of Aussie musician Steve Kilbey and his band the Church) is currently being edited and should be released sometime this year by Verse Chorus Press. I suppose it's worth mentioning that this project began its life as my MFA thesis, though it's been through four fairly radical revisions since then! My experience with VCP--a great little indie publisher out of Portland, OR--has thus far been nothing short of wonderful. If any of you find yourselves writing edgy crime fiction or treatises on obscure rock bands, you might want to consider sending something their way. Other fronts: In an absurd yet oddly poignant turn of events, I now live in Arizona, work for a software company, and have renounced my membership in the Republican Party. www.myspace.com/robertlurie (Website features two songs w. guest vocals by fellow MFA alumnus Kim Shable!)
Pamela Manasco (MFA 2008)
I got married in December of 2005, in the same month my poem, "Prometheus," was published in Half-Drunk Muse, and was an honorable mention in their 2005 Penny Jar Prize. Currently, I'm an assistant poetry editor at 42opus.
Michelle Manning (MFA 1997) is a full-time lecturer in UNCW’s English Department.
Catherine McCall (MFA 2005), catherine.mccall@yahoo.com, www.catherinemccall.com
—author of Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming and the South
I've had an essay accepted by The Village Rambler to appear...sometime. And I'll be giving a presentation at the National Wellness Conference on Finding Your Voice: Exploring Memoir, Culture and the Creative Self--which proves, I guess, that writing is good for your health as well as your soul!
Agnes McDonald (MFA 2004)
In 2004, I released a 51 poem collection, Eight Cranes on Tuesday. Since 2003, I was a staff writer for Carolina Civic Voice. a monthly progressive magazine that came out once a month, but which is now online four times a year. My contributions to this magazine were frequent and diverse. Too many to mention singly.
Janie Miller (MFA 2007)
Having graduated in May 2008 with my MFA from UNCW, I have tried various acts of time-using, including sitting on my hands, rocking back and forth in my chair, and moving my house furniture a quarter inch at a time; subconsciously intending to shift it back later in the day as the light changes. I've recently been published in Columbia Poetry Review and the Kakalak anthology, and have accepted a winter fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.
Amelia Morris (MFA, 2010)
McSweeney's is using a piece I wrote for their website in an upcoming humor anthology entitled The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes. My small business, www.istomachla.com, got a write up in a glossy Los Angeles mag rightly called Angeleno Magazine for the t-shirts (though it should be noted that my self-published coffee-table/humor book can also be purchased there!). And in somewhat related writing news, one of my fiance's scripts is currently a semi-finalist in the Nicholl fellowships and I'm very proud and hopeful that something will come of us living thousands of miles apart.
Derek Nikitas (MFA 2000)
My novel Pyres will be published by St. Martin's Minotaur in October 2007 as part of a two-book deal, and now I have to write another one. St. Martin's is also publishing a short story of mine called "Runaway" in an anthology in early 2008. The anthology showcases members of Killer Year, a group of "crime" writers whose debut novels are coming out in 2007. See www.killeryear.com. In the past couple years my stories have been published in The Ontario Review (thrice), Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (twice), Chelsea, and Traffic East. My story "Wonder" was an honorable mention in last year's Pushcart anthology. I taught writing full time at SUNY Brockport for five years, but for elusive reasons decided this year to go back to school and get my PhD. So here I am at Georgia State University working on a PhD in Fiction with a secondary concentration in Poetry.
Allison Parker (MFA 2001)
I begin graduate study in the Master of Science in Geoscience program, an online degree for college instructors, at Mississippi State this fall. In addition, my poem Villanelle was recently published in the summer edition of Astropoetica. Visit http://www.astropoetica.com/Summer07/villanelle.html
Miriam Parker (MFA 2008)
My story "The Made-for-TV Movie of My Life" was published in 14 Hills and the first chapter of the novel I am working on (tentatively titled Life Imitiates TV) was published in Wilma! I've also been writing essays about being Jewish, appropriately enough, for a Catholic website called BustedHalo.com. I’m living in Blacksburg, Virginia, working remotely as the Associate Director of Online Marketing for the Hachette Book Group. My story “Pardon My Doll” was published in the Spring 2008 issue of The Florida Review.
Lesley Parker Richardson (MFA 2003), frostedleaves@hotmail.com
I tied the knot on July 1, 2006, in Wilmington, and my husband and I now own a home in Hampstead. I am presently working on a novel and am a little over halfway through; I hope to complete it next summer. A few of my poems are floating around on editors’ desks now, so I am waiting for an acceptance letter or two with crossed fingers. My poems have recently been published in Flint Hills Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Coal City Review, and Main Street Rag. My poem "Stilettos" came out June 2007 in California Quarterly Volume 33, Number 2
This is my fourth year teaching writing and literature full-time at Coastal Carolina Community College and I am also dabbling in photography, so please visit my website at www.lesleyrichardsonphotography.com.
Sumanth Prabhaker (MFA 2007)
I'm in Boston now, working on a superhero novel and a few short stories about animals. This fall's issue of Mid-American Review, the literary journal of Ohio's Bowling Green State University, will include a story I wrote last year about a girl with two hearts. It's called "Girl with two hearts." Also, in an act of not-quite-nepotism-but-surely-something-ism, I've been working as an assistant fiction editor for the webzine Identity Theory, with whom I've had prior affiliation.
Cindy Horrell Ramsey (MFA 2006)
I'm still living and working in the North Carolina foothills, but it seems farther and farther away from my beautiful granddaughter, Kamryn, who recently celebrated her first birthday. I will appear on UNC-TV's Bookwatch with D.G. Martin on Friday, October 10, 2008, at 9:30 p.m. and again on Sunday, October 12 at 5 p.m. discussing my nonfiction book Boys of the Battleship North Carolina (2007 John F. Blair, Publisher). The first weekend of May, 2007, I witnessed history with the commissioning of the submarine North Carolina and participated in a legacy luncheon where the crewmembers of the battleship and the submarine ate together and toasted each other. As with many events surrounding my book, it was a tearjerker. I've completed a suspense novel and am currently agent shopping while working on my next book--600 Letters Home--based on letters I found in the ship's archives while researching the nonfiction book. It will be research intensive fiction. I've also been named to the North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholars Speakers Bureau for 2009–2010.
Carrah Lee Royal (BFA 2002)
(As a UNCW student, I was known as Carrah Faircloth) I have been busy since my exit with a B.F.A in Creative Writing in May 2002. I graduated from Boston's Emerson College in May 2005 with a M.F.A. in Creative Writing. I have moved back to Fayetteville, NC, married, and now I am even published. I have a small article in the November issue of OurState magazine entitled "A Dickens of A Holiday". You can find the article under the by-line of Lee Royal (my middle and married name).
Anne Russell (MFA 1999)
My Wilmington play "The Porch" was performed at London Terrace Gardens in New York City in September 2006. Making Waves Films in Hawaii is utilizing my biography of Senator Patsy Takemoto Mink in its production of the documentary "Ahead of the Majority" for national public television. The Bill Moyers program is making use of my 1898 commemorative drama "No More Sorrow to Arise" in production of a new documentary for national public television. I am teaching courses in creativity and 20th century family drama in UNC-Wilmington's master of liberal studies program. I have co-authored the book Life and Times of the Fort Fisher Hermit, Through the Lens of Fred Pickler published Spring 2007.
Bryan Sandala (MFA 2006), bryansandala@yahoo.com
My wife Heather and I moved from Wilmington to Philadelphia, PA this past May. She'll be attending the masters' program at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania starting this fall. I began service with Teach for America (www.teachforamerica.org) this summer (taught summer school--11th grade English--at William Penn High School in Northern Philadelphia). My fall placement, and teaching assignment for the next two years, is at the Camden Academy Charter High School in Camden, NJ. I'm teaching 10th grade classes in American Literature (honors and regular), in addition to a remediation Literature and Composition class in order to prepare senior students for the NJ High School Proficiency Assessment.
Kim Shable (MFA 2004)
Four of my humor columns, including one I wrote for the late, great ConvincingJohn.com, have been published in the Columbus (OH) Dispatch over the last few months, thus beginning my dramatic climb to total domination of the humor columnist circuit. In other news, I am now engaged to Ben Oja, a super-fine chemist with a heart of gold and flecks of chrome covering all his clothes and, sometimes, his hair. He does not read my blog, but you should: http://www.unwillingadult.blogspot.com (it's not as porny as it sounds).
Ashley Shivar (MFA, 2010)
I have continued on as co-coordinator for the Writers In Action Program and was also elected CRWGSA President for the 2008–09 academic year. I have had poems in The Lettered Olive of the University of South Carolina, as an undergraduate. Three poems appeared in the Spring/Summer issue of SNReview, which can be viewed on their website. My poem "Keramikos" was published/posted above the ceramics exhibit in Randall Library. My poem "Vanity" will be published in the fall/September issue of Main Channel Voices.
Jarvis Slacks (MFA 2008), www.jayslacks.blogspot.com
I am in the wonderful Washington DC suburbs, where I am teaching English at Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland. I just ended my 15-month run writing the Nightlife Column, Good Evening, for the Star-News. My short story "Like Marriage" was published in Riffing with Strings: A Collection of Writing on String Theory by Scribelus Press. I am currently working hard on my next novel, which involves Divorce, Murder, Creativity, the Internet, and those naps you used to take in kindergarten.
Sally Smits (MFA 2006)
I'm currently teaching composition, literature, and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend. It's very flat and gray here, but the students are terrific. This past year, I have had poems published in The Georgia Review and The Laurel Review, and the editors of Smartish Pace nominated a poem of mine for Best New Poets 2007. My cat, Clementine, gets fatter and more beautiful by the day.
Emily Louise Smith (MFA 2006)
I am serving as the 2006–07 writer-in-residence with the Hub City Writers Project and its sister project HUB-BUB.com in Spartanburg, SC. In late 2007 a photography book for which I wrote an introduction will be published as our lead title. My poems are forthcoming in the online journal Front Porch and an anthology from Texas Tech University Press The Farmer's Daughter.
Faydra Stratton (MFA 2003)
In December 2006 a story from my thesis appeared in the premier edition of The Ankeny Briefcase in February 2007 another story will appear in Relief. In July of 2005 Kevin and I adopted a 16-month-old from Volgograd, Russia. I blogged the experience start to finalization and self-published the blog through iuniverse as a family keepsake. These days I’m settling into Texas life. (We moved so Kevin can pursue missionary aviation at LeTourneau University in Longview, TX.) Anything writing related for me is updated at faydrastratton.com.
Mallory Tarses (MFA 2007)
I won last year's (2006) Washington Square Review fiction competition, judged by Sam Lipsyte, and had the story published in their Summer 2006 issue. My story, "The Tennis Lesson," appeared in Wilma! in July, and another story, "Details," placed fifth in the W.P. Kinsella Baseball Fiction contest and will appear in the upcoming issue of 108. I recommend that others enter this contest, as the people at Sandlot Media are great and their monetary rewards are substantial.
Daniel Nathan Terry (MFA 2010)
I am a former landscaper and current "national disaster into poetry" enthusiast. My work has appeared in Oberon, Busted Halo, The River, and The Albion Review. My first collection of poetry, Days of Dark Miracles, which dealt with the events surrounding hurricane Katrina, was a finalist in two national book competitions: The Stevens Manuscript Contest and Elixir. I am currently working on a collection of poems about the photographers of the American Civil War tentatively titled Capturing the Dead.
Brian Tucker (BFA 2004) www.bootlegmag.com
I publish a magazine called Bootleg (formally Avenue) which focuses on art, music, culture, photography, film, fiction, and stories otherwise overlooked. In 2007 I started Helping Hands, a music project resulting in two cd's of local music rasing money for kids charities. I also write for Southeast Performer magazine. www.myspace.com/avenuemagazinepresents
Matt Tullis (MFA 2005), mtullis@dispatch.com
I had a humor essay, "Seeing a Living Unicorn," published in the September issue of Cleveland Magazine. The essay is about my trip to the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus as a fourth-grader, the year they claimed to have the world's only living unicorn, and it turned out to be a goat with one horn. On the newspaper front, I've moved up to features at the Columbus Dispatch, and now write about leisure time activities. On the home front, we finally have a home, having purchased a house in Gahanna (one of the burbs). And Lillian Claire was born on May 24 and is now a happy, healthy and chunky three-month-old.
Eric Vrooman (MFA 2000)
My short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Minnesota Monthly, The Cream City Review, Passages North, and Ninth Letter. For the past seven years, I've taught creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College and Tulane University. I'm currently freelancing in Minneapolis.
Jesse Waters (MFA 2002)
I am currently a visiting lecturer in the English Dept. at UNCW. I'm finishing a memoir, CALL ME KIKE: A Memoir-ish. A chapter from the book will appear in the next issue of The Southeast Review.
Jennifer Weathers (MFA 2009)
I have recently had poems published in Hunger Mountain, SLAB, and Red Clay Review, all marvelously gorgeous publications to whom I am indebted.
Bambi Weavil (BFA 2004)
Since 2004, I've been a regular wrestling columnist for PulseWresting.com. Since April 2006, I've been working for the largest lesbian publication, Curve Magazine link as their Marketing/PR Manager as well as the War on Apathy's (http://www.thewaronapathy.org) Campaign Manager. Since January 2007, I've been a music columnist for MachineGunFunk.com. Between all of my work, I still make time to write poetry and blog at artsy-goddess.com. Cheers!
Hillary Wentworth (MFA 2007)
Hello! My essay “Lies Are Easy to Recognize” was chosen as a finalist in the 2006 First Person Arts memoir competition. “The Extra” was published in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Black Warrior Review. I’m currently working on art for the Red Wheelbarrow, an experimental MFA showcase of word and image.
Allison Wilkins (BFA 2002)
My poems have appeared in Tiger's Eye, Broken Bridge Review, Sin City Review and others. I am currently an assistant professor of English at Lynchburg College.
Rebecca Whitman (BFA 2004)
After graduation, I developed a career in photography. I am currently the manager of a portrait studio in Winston-Salem, NC. In this new world of rolling green hills, I am finding new inspiration for my writing. Currently, I am pursuing publication of past and present work as well as exploring my own creativity in its vast arrays of forms.
Cheryl Wilder (BFA 2005)
I am in my second semester at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where I am obtaining my MFA in poetry. Currently I am writing a book for a local architect about his architectural philosophies and their importance to contemporary architecture.
Luba Zakharov (MFA 2006), luba.zakharov@alumni.duke.edu
Funded by a grant from the American Theological Library Association, I traveled to Moscow, Russia in April 2008 to participate in the conference, Library Support for Educational Programs in Theological Schools. The Russian newspaper The Protestant published my translated article, “Theological Librarians Meet in Moscow” in their July 2008 edition. A follow up article, “International Collaboration and Storytelling,” was published in the August 2008 edition of the ATLA Newsletter, vol. 55, no. 4. Stories of my travels can be found at http://lubasmoscow.blogspot.com.
