Our students have gone on to become creative writing faculty, oversea educators, editors of creative publications, and published authors:

Victoria Deckard is attending the M.F.A. program at the University of Memphis.

M. Hardwick (Kaitlynn Means) is attending the M.F.A. program at the University of Memphis.

Margaret Hoffman received her Master’s in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has worked as a writer and/or script coordinator on various shows at Netflix, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Hellosaurus, and Sutoscience.

Constantine Jones (Pete Jones) is the director of the Visual AIDS oral history project, The Body Is an Archive. They lead courses in poetry & hybrid writing as adjunct faculty at City College of New York (CUNY).

Sophia Mass is teaching in the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program.

Alexa Norsby received her M.F.A. from McNeese State and is now an editorial intern at The Oxford American.

Cassie Sistoso has been accepted into Sewanee School of Letters MFA in Creative Writing Program.

Quentin Steadman received his M.F.A. from Old Dominion University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska.

Lukas Tallent’s story, “Thrust,” was recently included in Heresy Press’s debut anthology, Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction, and his debut novel will be published in the Fall. He edits a literary magazine on Substack called Wrong Turn Lit.

Coby Taylor has been accepted into the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program.

Alex Terrell (Tiara Terrell) won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers in 2018. Her stories have been published in Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Kenyon Review, and in the anthology Best American Experimental. She teaches creative writing at UMass Amherst and GrubStreet.

Joshua Tilton received his M.F.A. from the University of Memphis.

Chet Weise is Editor in Chief of Third Man Books, an imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville.