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News about 2002-03 graduates can be found at Recent Graduates. 
Brian Leung is the author of WORLD FAMOUS LOVE ACTS, a collection of short stories published by Sarabande Books, and winner of the 2003 Mary McCarthy Award in Short Fiction selected by finalist judge Chris Offut. Brian's fiction has appeared in Story, Gulf Coast, Kinesis, Salt Hill, Grain, and River City, The Bellingham Review, and elsewhere, and his poetry has been published in Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, The Connecticut Review, Gulf Stream, and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). From 1999-2000 he served as Editor of the Indiana Review, and during his time at I.U. he was awarded a 2002 Ledig House International Writers' Colony Residency Fellowship as well as an Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project Award in Poetry. He is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and English at the University of California, Northridge. Rick Madigan's poetry has recently appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Crazyhorse, The North American Review, Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Brilliant Corners. He is an assistant professor of English at East Stroudsburg University. 
Renee Manfredi's first novel, ABOVE THE THUNDER, was published in January 2004 by MacAdam Cage Publishing. Her previous collection of stories, WHERE LOVE LEAVES US (University of Iowa Press, 1994), was the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and named one of "Granta's Fabulous 52" in the 1996 Best Young American Novelists competition sponsored by Granta Magazine. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. She has also completed work on a novel titled RUNNING AWAY WITH FRANNIE, a section of which has been published in Voices in Italian Americana. Renee has short stories in recent issues of Prairie Schooner and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Her stories have also been broadcast on National Public Radio. 
Khaled Mattawa's most recent book is ZODIAC OF ECHOES, which was released in 2003 by Ausable Press. He is also the author of ISMA'ILIA ECLIPSE (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995); the translator of two volumes of Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's QUESTIONS AND THEIR RETINUE (University of Arkansas Press, 1996), which received the University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Translation in Literature, and Fadhill Al-Azzai's IN EVERY WELL A JOSEPH IS WEEPING (Quarterly Review of Literature Series, 1997); and the co-editor of POST GIBRAN: ANTHOLOGY OF NEW ARAB AMERICAN WRITING (Syracuse University Press, 1999). He is also the translator of WITHOUT AN ALPHABET, WITHOUT A FACE: A NOVEL BY SAADI YOUSEFF (Graywolf Press, 2002). Khaled's own poetry has appeared widely, in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, New England Review, Callaloo, BEST AMERICAN POETRY, Ploughshares, THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY; BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere; his work is also featured on Web del Sol. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts translations fellowship, and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. 
Clint McCown has recently published his third novel, THE WEATHERMAN (Graywolf Press, 2004), winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize. His second novel, WAR MEMORIALS, was also published by Graywolf Press. McCown is also the author of the novel in stories, THE MEMBER-GUEST (Doubleday, 1995), which was the recipient of the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as two books of poetry, four plays, and two screenplays. His work has appeared in over thirty magazines and anthologies, including the collection THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press), and has been given the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award and, twice, the American Fiction Prize, among other honors. As a journalist, he received the Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence. He is presently a professor in the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and also a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. 
Erin McGraw's most recent book is THE GOOD LIFE, a collection of stories published in 2004 by Houghton Mifflin. She is also the author of THE BABY TREE, a collection of stories published by Story Line Press. Her collection of short stories LIES OF THE SAINTS (Chronicle Books, 1996) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and also won the 1997 Ohioana Library Society Award for Fiction. Her earlier collection is BODIES AT SEA (University of Illinois Press, 1989). Her stories and essays have appeared widely, in the Georgia Review, Atlantic Monthly, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, as well as the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). She is the recipient of Yaddo and Wallace Stegner Fellowships, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grant, and the Pushcart Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at The Ohio State University. 
Anna George Meek was the winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for her first collection of poems, ACTS OF CONTORTION, which was selected by Edward Hirsch and was published from the University of Wisconsin Press. Her book was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and her second collection, THE GENOME RHAPSODIES, was a finalist for the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Anna's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Cream City Review, The Connecticut Poetry Review, PRAIRIE VOLCANO: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH DAKOTA WRITING (St. Ives Press, 1995), and the Missouri Review, where her work was presented as the Tom McAfee Discovery Feature. At Indiana University Anna received the American Academy of Poets Prize and the Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing. She teaches writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she is also a professional violinist and violin teacher. 
Philip Metres' poems and translations of Russian poets have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Literal Latte, River Styx, Minnesota Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Mid-American Review, as well as in several anthologies including BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2002. His books include A KINDRED ORPHANHOOD: SELECTED POEMS OF SERGEY GANDLEVSKY (Zephyr Books, 2003), which was a finalist for the Salmon Run National Poetry Book Award; CATALOGUE OF COMEDIC NOVELITIES: SELECTED POEMS OF LEV RUBINSTEIN (Ugly Duckling, 2004); and a recently released chapbook, PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS (Kent State University Press, 2004). In 2001 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. Philip is an assistant professor of English at John Carroll University, teaching literature and creative writing, and living in Cleveland with his wife Amy and daughter Adele. 
Nikki Moustaki is the author of THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY (Alpha Books, 2001). She has also published eight books on birds and bird behavior (with four more books forthcoming) and is an avian care and behavior consultant in addition to teaching poetry, fiction, and memoir writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City. Nikki's poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, Berkeley Poetry Review, Quarterly West, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Madison Review, Yankee Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, Cimarron Review, POETRY AFTER 9-11: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS (Melville House, 2002), and other journals and anthologies. She was the recipient of a 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, and was awarded First Prize in the 1998 W. B. Yeats Poetry Competition, sponsored by the W. B. Yeats Society of New York. 
Jay Neugeboren's most recent book, TRANSFORMING MADNESS: NEW LIVES FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (William Morrow, 1999), has been released in paperback by the University of California Press. He published two books in 1997: a collection of short stories titled DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE KIDS (University of Massachusetts Press) and the memoir, IMAGINING ROBERT: MY BROTHER, MADNESS, AND SURVIVAL (William Morrow), which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year 1997. Jay is the award-winning author of seven novels, including BEFORE MY LIFE BEGAN, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Prize for Best Novel of 1985, and THE STOLEN JEW, which won the Present Tense Award for Best Novel of 1981, and which was reissued by Syracuse University Press in 1998. Jay has also written a previous story collection, a memoir, and several screenplays including the American Playhouse screenplay for THE HOLLOW BOY, which won top prize at the Houston International Film Festival. He is a professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 
Angela Pneuman lives in California's Napa Valley and works as a copywriter in the wine industory. A recent Stegner Fellow and Marsh McCall Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University, her fiction has recently appeared in Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Puerto del Sol, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other literary magazines, as well as BEST AMERICAN STORIES 2004 (Houghton Mifflin) and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). She is completing work on a collection of short stories and is at work on a novel. While at Indiana University she was the recipient of the Lois Davidson Ellis Literary Award in Fiction, and she was awarded a $5,000 Masters Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Council. 
Keith Ratzlaff was awarded the 1996 Anhinga Prize for Poetry for his collection of poetry, MAN UNDER A PEAR TREE, which was published by Anhinga Press in April 1997. His poem "Winterreise" was awarded the 1996 Theodore Roethke Award by Poetry Northwest. His poems have appeared The Denver Quarterly The Journal, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, New England Review, and The Threepenny Review. Keith is also the author of the chapbooks, OUT HERE (State Street Press, 1984) and NEW WINTER LIGHT (Nightshade Press, 1994). Another full-length volume of poems, ACROSS THE KNOWN WORLD, has been published in 1997 by Loess Hills Press as one of two inaugural books in its Iowa Poets series. Keith is an assistant professor at Central College in Pella, Iowa. 
Lee Ann Roripaugh's second volume of poetry, YEAR OF THE SNAKE, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2004 as part of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Her first volume of poetry, BEYOND HEART MOUNTAIN (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literature Awards. She was the 2003 recipient of a Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, the 2003 Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing, and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, New England Review, North American Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others, and appears in the anthologies ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION (University of Illinois Press, 2004), POETS OF THE NEW CENTURY (Godine, 2001), and AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000), among others. Roripaugh is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she is also the Associate Editor and Poetry Editor of South Dakota Review. Visit her online journal, A Woman Who Loves Insects, for blog entries, audio poems, and news about readings. 
Romayne Rubinas' poetry has appeared in Brilliant Corners, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sou'wester, and other literary magazines, and her poetry translations have been published in Illinois Writers Review. While a graduate student at Indiana University she was the recipient of the 2001 Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing and the Samuel Yellen Fellowship in Poetry, and in 1999 she was awarded a month-long residency to the Ledig House International Writers' Colony in Omi, New York. She has also worked as an editor of Indiana Review, American Book Review, and Farmer's Market. Romayne served as Director of the Indiana University Summer Writers' Conference from 1999-2001. She currently works as the Director of Creative Writing Pedagogy at Indiana University, Bloomington. 
Mandy Sayer's second memoir, VELOCITY, is forthcoming in 2005. Her most recent book is a collection of stories titled 15 KINDS OF DESIRE (Random House Australia, 2001). She also co-edited the anthology, IN THE GUTTER...LOOKING AT THE STARS: A LITERARY ADVENTURE THROUGH KINGS CROSS (Random House Australia, 2000). She received Australia's National Biography Award for her 1998 memoir DREAMTIME ALICE, which was published by Ballantine Books of New York and Random House Australia, and has been contracted to be made into a major motion picture starring Geoffrey Rush. Mandy was awarded a 1996 Writer's Fellowship from the Australia Council to complete work on DREAMTIME ALICE, excerpts of which appeared in Brilliant Corners, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Manoa, New Laurel Review, Phoenix Review, and the anthologies SMASHED: AUSTRALIAN DRINKING STORIES (Random House), and THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Mandy's first novel, MOOD INDIGO (Allen and Unwin, 1990), was the winner of the Australian/Vogel National Literary Award. She is also the author of the novels BLIND LUCK (University of Queensland Press, 1993) and THE CROSS (Angus & Robertson, 1995; and HarperCollins Australia, 1995). She was also named one of the ten Best Young Australian Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald. 
J. D. Scrimgeour's most recent book is THE LAST MILES, a collection of poetry that will be published by Fine Tooth Press in September 2005. His essay, "Living the Outfield," was the recipient of the Best Writing on Baseball Award sponsored by Creative Nonfiction magazine and will appear in the magazine's special issue, "The Anatomy of Baseball," in 2006. His first book was SPIN MOVES: A BASKETBALL MEMOIR (Pecan Grove Press, 2000), about which the Boston Globe wrote, "SPIN MOVES is basketball as a literary musical, a world that has its own soundtrack (with varied time signatures) as well as its own language." J. D. lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, fiction writer Eileen FitzGerald, and their two sons, and is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Salem State College. His poetry and critical writing have appeared in Poetry, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Mid-American Review, Auto/Biography Studies, Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. 
Christine Sneed's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, River Styx, The Greensboro Review, ThirdCoast, and Laurel Review. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Third Coast, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She currently works as assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was the recent recipient of a Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry as well as Indiana University's Lois Davidson Ellis Literary Award, given annually to the author of an outstanding work of fiction. Her short story, "I Want to Marry You," which was published in the Fall 2000 issue of Third Coast, was short-listed in PRIZE STORIES 2001: THE O'HENRY AWARDS (PRIZE STORIES). 
Adam Sol's second book of poems, CROWD OF SOUNDS, was published in 2003 by House of Anansi Press, Canada's leading literary publisher. His first book was JONAH'S PROMISE (Midlist Press, 2000), winner of the 1999 First Series Award for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The Malahat Review, Grain, The Texas Review, Shofar, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Kenyon Review, River City, Fiddlehead, Greensboro Review, Many Mountains Moving, Crab Orchard Review, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere. He is a two-time recipient of the Canada Council Grant for Writers (the Canadian equivalent of a fellowship from the N.E.A.), and has been writing essays and book reviews for various publications including The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, and Antigonish Review. He is an assistant professor at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky, and their two-year old son, Avishai. 
Kevin Stein's is poet laureate of Illinois, appointed in December 2003, and successor to Gwendolyn Brooks, who died three years earlier. He is the author of several volumes of poetry including AMERICAN GHOST ROSES (University of Illinois Press, 2005), CHANCE RANSOM, (Illinois, 2000); BRUISED PARADISE (Illinois, 1996), and A CIRCUS FOR WANT (University of Missouri Press, 1992), along with the chapbooks THE FIGURES OUR BODIES MAKE and A FIELD OF WINGS. He has also written a book of essays, PRIVATE POETS, WORLDLY ACTS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY (Ohio University Press), which focuses on the intersection of public and private history in the work on nine contemporary American poets. His earlier books received the Devins Award for Poetry, the Stanley Hanks Award, the Illinois Writers Award, among other honors, and he has received Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize, the Indiana Review's Poetry Prize, and three fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. He has also co-edited ILLINOIS VOICES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY (University of Illinois Press, 2002). Kevin is the Caterpillar Professor of English at Bradley University, where he directs the university's creative writing program. 
Brian Teare is the author of THE ROOM WHERE I WAS BORN, a collection of poetry published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by finalists judge Kelly Cherry. Brian's poems have been published in Poet Lore, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Spoon River Poetry Review's 1999 Editor's Prizes, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere, and he has published book reviews and interviews in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Quarterly West. In 2000-02 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and in 1999 he was a finalist for the Lilly Fellowship in Poetry, sponsored by Poetry Magazine. 
Steven Tally's latest book is ALMOST AMERICA: FROM THE COLONISTS TO CLINTON: A 'WHAT IF' HISTORY OF THE U.S. (HarperCollins/Avon, 2000). His previous book was BLAND AMBITION: FROM ADAMS TO QUAYLE--THE CRANKS, CRIMINALS, TAX CHEATS, AND GOLFERS WHO MADE IT TO VICE PRESIDENT (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992). Steven lives in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he works as a science writer and media relations specialist for Purdue University. He has written feature articles for over twenty national magazines, and his work has received the Pilot Pen Writing Award, the Nissan Travel Writing Award, and the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists Award for Magazine Writing. More about him and his work can be found at Steven W. Tally. Jon Tribble is the managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and the series editor of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry from Southern Illinois University Press. He was awarded a $7,000 Artists Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, and has recently published poems in Crazyhorse, Poetry, Ploughshares, Brilliant Corners, Prairie Schooner, Rosebud, Sycamore Review, Quarterly West, and THE JAZZ POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Indiana University Press, 1991). He teaches literature and creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. 
Judy Troy's most recent novel, FROM THE BLACK HILLS, was published in 1999 by Random House and released the following year in paperback. Her earlier novel, WEST OF VENUS, was also published by Random House and was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a 1997 Notable Book of the Year. Her short story "Ramone," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was reprinted in NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST, 1997 (Algonquin Books) and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Another of Judy's New Yorker stories, "Ten Miles West of Venus," was reprinted in NOTHING BUT YOU: LOVE STORIES FROM THE NEW YORKER (Random House, 1999) as well as in FICTION 100, 9th edition (Prentice Hall, 2001). She was named by the Whiting Foundation as one of ten recipients of its 1996 Whiting Writers' Awards. She is also the author of the short story collection, MOURNING DOVES (Scribner's, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, and Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993), and is currently an associate professor at Auburn University, where she is Alumni Writer-in-Residence. Alison Umminger is an assistant professor at the University of West Georgia. Her fiction has been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Laurel Review, Orchid: A Literary Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and her poetry has appeared in Amaranth and Quarterly West. She also has a story, which doubles as the first chapter of a novel she's recently completed, forthcoming from Prairie Schooner. Her stories have also earned finalist distinction in the Nelson Algren Award in Fiction competition, as well as the Albright Merit Award in Literature from the National Society of Arts and Letters and a Ledig House International Writers' Colony Residency Fellowship. During her senior year at Harvard she was president of Harvard Lampoon. 
Dean Young's newest book of poems, ELEGY ON TOY PIANO, was released by the University of Pittsburgh Press in February 2005. He has also published SKID (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002); FIRST COURSE IN TURBULENCE (Pittsburgh, 1999); STRIKE ANYWHERE (University of Colorado Press, 1995), winner of the Colorado Poetry Prize; DESIGN WITH X (Wesleyan University Press, 1988); and BELOVED INFIDEL (Wesleyan University Press, 1992). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He was also awarded his second National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1996, and has previously received a Provincetown Fine Arts Works Center Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford. His poems have appeared five times in the BEST AMERICAN POETRY series. Currently an associate professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as well as a teacher in the low-residency program at Warren Wilson College, he splits his time between Iowa City and Berkeley, California, where he lives with his wife, fiction writer Cornelia Nixon. |
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