Students

Javi Maria Cain (2023) Poetry: “Ode to a Water Skimmer,” Blue Heron Review, Issue 16, Spring 2023; “The Return,” Life’s Wonders, edited by Rhianna Levi, Black Pear Press, Spring 2023.

Amy Cook (2025) Creative Nonfiction: “Conducting,” Many Nice Donkeys, May 2022; “Receipts,” Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, May 2023; “The Millennium Snow,” The Other Journal, Issue 35, Spring 2023. 

Claire Hankenson under the pen name Fiona C. Hankenson (2024) Creative Nonfiction: “My Humans Allow Me to Be Out,” Eastern Iowa Review, Issue 16: Come, Wander, April/May 2023; “Reminiscence:  i. Unsteady Gait, ii. Achilles’ Heel,” Cable Street, Issue 2, May 2023. 

Eric Lochridge (2025) Poetry: “The Sea Vent,” Anti-Heroin Chic, April 2023; “The Last Trick,” The Good Life Review, Issue 11, Spring 2023.

Bonnie L. Markowski (2023) Poetry: “Beth, I imagine it feels like . . .,” BirdHouse Magazine, June 2023.

antmen pimentel mendoza (2025) Poetry: “Eau D’Bedroom Dancing (I Learn from You)” and “After Campari Sodas and Modelo Especial, Before The Good Wife,” Diode Poetry Journal, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2023; “Ode to the Durian Emoji, Though it is Yet to Exist” and “Olfactory Ode,” MAYDAY, March 2023; “Self-Portrait in a Canadian Tuxedo on the Road to St. George, UT,” Split Lip Magazine, May 2023. Essay: “A Brief Note on Play,” Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, May 2023.

Aleah Romer (2024) Fiction: “The Selkie” Mulberry Literary, Issue VI, May 2023; “The Cost of a Kiss,” Haunted Words Press, Pride Issue: We Will Not Stay Buried, June 2023.

Dawn Terpstra (2025) Poetry: “New Petition in the Waning Hours,” Briar Cliff Review, Vol. 35, 2023.

Janna Wagner (2025) Creative Nonfiction/Hybrid: “Wolf Cries Welcome,” Spectrum Literary Journal, Volume 66, June 2023. Creative Nonfiction: “Queen of Dry Cabins” and “Messiah,” INK Babies Literary Magazine, Issue #3, Summer-Fall 2022; “Sun City,” Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. VIII No. 1, Spring 2023.

Alumni

Jenny Apostol (2020) Essay: “First Job,” Cordella Magazine, Issue 17, January 2023.

Lisa Morin Carcia (2018) Poetry: “The Old Masters in Seattle,” Talking River Review, Issue 54, Spring 2023.

Mandy Nadyne Clark (2012) Creative Nonfiction: “Annie Hall Stole My Daughter’s Virginity,” Bridge Eight Press, February 2023.

Nancy Canyon (2007) Poetry: “Kitchen Table,” “Old Growth,” & “In My Garden, Spring and All, Sidekick Press, May 2023; “O Lady of the Salmon Run,” I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Rena Priest, Empty Bowl Press, May 2023; “Rocket Bird,” The 2023 Poetry Marathon Anthology, April 2023; “My Nocturnal Hunter,” Purr and Yowl, World Enough Writers, June 2023; “Seasoning Perfection,” Corridor, April 2023. 

Shawna Ervin (2021) Poetry: “U,” American Literary Review, May 2023; “L” and “P,” Open; Journal of Arts and Letters, April 2023. Essay: “Unmothered,” Sonora Review, April 2023; “Unclean,” Blue Mesa Review, Issue 47, Spring 2023.

Jill McCabe Johnson (2008) Poetry: “Bedded in Wet Rock Like Any Other Roe,” I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Rena Priest, Empty Bowl Press.

Linda MacKillop (2015) Fiction: Hotel Oscar Mike Echo, B&H, June 2023.

John Milkereit (2016) Poetry: “The Deputy Marshall” and “Reunion,” Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose, Dos Gatos Press, April 2023; “Tankas,” The Ekphrastic Review, May 2023; “We Walk to the Art Museum” and “You Write a Poem So You Won’t,” Chaos Dive Reunion, Mutabilis Press, June 2023. 

Ann Bodle Nash (2018) Creative Nonfiction: “Divorce Pending,” Shark Reef, June 2023.

Laura Rink (2021) Creative Nonfiction: “Tante Silvia’s Flinch Cards,” The Keepthings, March 2023; “Twenty Seconds,” Two Hawks Quarterly, May 2023.

Stuart Rose (2022) Fiction: “The Oranges of Tobolsa,” The Tomahawk Creek Review, June 2023.

Joannie Stangeland (2019) Poetry: “Dream Land,” The Pedestal Magazine, Issue 91, 2023; “VIII. ‘a conception of the ideal of life,’” Cider Press Review, Vol. 25, Issue 1, April 2023; “Outside, the Sun Insists on Shining,” Whale Road Review, Issue 30, Spring 2023.

Cameron Walker (2008) Poetry: “The Only News I Understand Comes From Flowers,” Cosmic Daffodil, May 2023. Creative Nonfiction: National Monuments of the U.S.A., Quarto Press, June 2023.

Julianna Waters (2019) Fiction: “Old Harry’s Daughters,” CRAFT Literary, March 2023.

Faculty

Wendy Call, Essay: “Only the Necessary Suffering,” Sonora Review, April 2023. Poetry/Translation: Excerpt from her translation of Irma Pineda’s In the Belly of Night and Other Poems, Latin American Literature Today, Issue 25, March 2023; In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (translation), by Irma Pineda, Eulalia Books, 2022.

Jennifer Elise Foerster, Poetry: “Asterism,” ADI Magazine, Issue 12, May 2023; “Walking in the Redwoods with My Mother,” “Triptych,” and “Aquarium Glass,” Kenyon Review, Summer 2023; poetry/film “Us,” commissioned by the Denver Art Museum for the exhibition Near East to Far West; “One week away and the forest has changed,” “The edge of descent, digression's highway,” and “The Last Kingdom,” Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions, ed. Khadijah Queen & K. Ibura, University of Alabama Press, 2023

Jenny Johnson, Poetry: “Good Bully” and “Good Bully,” The Rumpus, April 2023. Essay: “Butch Blow Job,” BOMB Magazine, Summer 2023.

Brenda Miller, Poetry: “Sacrum” and interview, Passengers Journal, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2022. Creative Nonfiction: “Elijah,” Short Reads, April 2023; “A Flock of Hummingbirds is a Glittering,” The Poetry Society, Vol. 112, No. 3, Autumn 2022.