Students

Gloria Bromberg (2026) Poetry: “Harmonic Convergence in Orange,” Orangepeel Magazine, Issue 9: Notes on OrangeFall, 2025. “The Addiction Counselor Considers Her Job While Reading ‘Leaves of Grass’ on the Bus,” previously published in Feral Poetry, published in the anthology, The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work, edited by Erin Murphy, One Art Poetry, September 2025.

Krista Lee Hanson (2026) Nonfiction: “Show Up Early, Show Up Late, Show Up Uninvited,” Tahoma Literary Review, Summer 2025.

Kerry J Heckman (2025) Poetry: “for when you are on ruby beach and forget who you are,” “out of the blue,” and “transformation," Multiplicity Magazine, Issue 6: Refuge, Spring/Summer 2025; “do your ancestors know you are the one they are waiting for?” Thimble Literary Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, Summer 2025; “things to remember next time you're on a boat," Ocean Poetry Anthology, Volume II, Kelp Books, 2025. Review: “A Review of This One We Call Ours” by Martha Silano, North American Review, May 2025.

John Romagna (2028) Poetry: “What a Son Does” and “You No Longer Need Sleep,” Westchester Review, Fall 2025.

Mark Strohschein (2028) Poetry: “Fascism,” Cincinnati Review, August 2025; “Swimming Across Channels,” Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2025.

Alumni

Jenny Apostol (2020): “My Mother Is an Endless Story,” Blood Tree Literature Anthology, Summer 2025; “Time’s Arrow (Flies in Only One Direction),” After the Art, September 2025.

Lisa Morin Carcia (2018) Poetry: “Heloise at Midlife,” Connecticut River Review, 2025.

Nancy Canyon (2007) Poetry: “Laundry Day,” Poetry Marathon Online Journal, 2025; “Ringed Light on Freshwater Swamp,” Second Ten Years Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest; “Words of a Feather;” “Teaching the Moon to Speak,” Salish Sea Poetry Festival, 2005.

Hannah Comerford (2019) Poetry: “Microsoft Teams Call,” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 34: Poets Are Patriots: Writers Respond to Censorship, Fall 2025.

megan e. connolly (2025) Nonfiction: “Scars,” Baby Teeth Journal, July 2025; “A Team in the Face of the World: Dogs as Narrative Agents in Memoirs about Life after Loss,” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, October 2025.

Amy Cook (2025) Nonfiction: “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Blue Sky: The Hallmarks of 9/11’s Imagery in Prose,” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Spring 2025; “The Thawing,” Fruitslice, September 2025.

Elissa Favero (2024) Nonfiction: “The Moon Moves,” Ecotone, July 2025.

Kathleen Flenniken (2007) Poetry: Dressing in the Dark, Lynx House Press, September 2025.

Nancy Geyer (2013) Nonfiction: “Letter to America,” Terrain.org, June 2025; “Playgrounds & Kurosawa’s Ikiru,” North American Review, Fall 2025.

Mike Gosalia (2022) Poetry: “Marathon Man” and “Breaking Away,” Anxiety and Depression Anthology, Poetry for Mental Health in the UK, June 2025.

Katrina Hays (2010) Poetry: “Shine,” Barrow Street, Winter 2024/Spring 2025.

Erin Coughlin Hollowell (2009) Poetry: “What harvest looks like when there is no harvest,” Ploughshares, Spring 2025.

Jill McCabe Johnson (2008) Poetry: “Scientists Confirm Ocean Is Really Scary at Night,” third place, Sweet 2025 Poetry Contest; “Scientists Confirm Hope Takes Practice,” Terrain.org Letters to America; “Scientists Confirm Visceral Reactions to Graphic Images” and “Scientists Confirm Birds Migrate to Escape Harsh Winters,” in Lunch Ticket’s monthly Amuse-Bouche feature; “Scientists Confirm Most of the Universe is Darkness and Nothing More” and “Scientists Confirm Existence of Moon,” in DMQ Review; “Scientists Confirm Interplanetary Dust Clouds Orbit Earth” and “Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections” in The Inflectionist Review; Nonfiction: “Following Skipjack,” Campfire Stories: The San Juan Islands, Mountaineers Books, 2025.

Lita Kurth (2009) Fiction: “Wisconsin Milk Strike,” Journal of Working-Class Studies, August 2025.

Bonnie L. Markowski (2023) Poetry: “Sunday Sauce,” Luzerne County’s Poetry in Transit, October 2025.

John Milkereit (2016) Poetry: “When the Whole World Is a Pressure Cooker, Steam Eventually Vents,” Equinox Journal, Issue 9, September 2025; “Acrostical Tankas,” The Ekphrastic Review, August 2025; “Born to be Wild," "Pissarro," and "I Pursue Dance Lessons with My Unvaccinated Lover,” Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry Festival Anthology, October 2025; “Along the Way,” Texas Poetry Assignment, October 2025.

Vandana Nair (2021) Review: “Review: Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, Translated by Deepa Bhasthi,” Exchanges, August 2025.

Laura Rink (2021) Nonfiction: “Geraniums,” Short Reads, July 2025; “You Are a Writer Swirling in Despair,” Brevity Blog, August 2025; “The One Who Hears Everything,” Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, September 2025.

Stuart Rose (2022) Fiction: “The Nose Part II,” The Militant Grammarian, September 2025.

Tina Schumann (2009) Poetry: “Letter to My More Forgiving Self,” Poem After Poem Newsletter, 2025.

Jen Soriano (2018) Fiction & Nonfiction: “Like Independence Day,” Ploughshares, Spring 2025.

David Taylor (2023) Fiction: “The Shiva Option,” Writing Disorder, Fall 2025 issue; “Drawing Animals,” America's Future Anthology, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, September 2025. 

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (2017) Poetry: “A Homeland Walks Home Alone,” Ploughshares, Spring 2025.

Josie Emmons Turner (2007) Poetry: More Blue, Cave Moon Press, May 2025.

Cameron Walker (2008) Fiction: “At Whistling,” Blood Tree Literature, Issue 15, July 2025. Poetry: “Departed,” Panorama, Issue 15: Paris.

Tarn Wilson (2008) Poetry: “The Grasshopper,” and “Even My Ghosts are Rusty,” Does It Have Pockets, September 1, 2025; “Assignment for My Post-Pandemic High School Students, Who Are So Very Careful,” The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work, September 1, 2025; “I Don't Like the Word Illness,” Unbroken, July 4, 2025; “The Dogs of Chernobyl,” Ionosphere, July 2025.

Faculty

Rick Barot: The Emperor of the Cut Sleeve, Sixth Finch Books, September 2025.

Former Faculty 

Lola Haskins: Review of “Like Zeros, Like Pearls” by Lola Haskins, Southern Literary Review, October 2025.

Brenda Miller: “Silent Disco,” The Sun, October 2025.

Marjorie Sandor: “Lorca's Guitar,” Ploughshares, Spring 2025.