Christine Pivovar (MFA 2013)’s short story “Love in the Time of Communists” appeared in The Southeast Review 33.1 (2015): 64. You can read the story here: http://english.fsu.edu/ser_wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Christine-Pivovar_Love.pdf
Bridgette Henry’s First Novel Recently Published
UMKC alum Bridgette M. Henry’s first novel, Keeper of the Quilt, has been published as an ebook through Amazon. It is available here.
Catherine Browder’s Recent Publications
Alumna and former adjunct instructor, Catherine Browder’s novella, CAFE DEUX MONDES, is now available as an E-Book from Ploughshares Solos (as a Kindle Single) and also an audio book from audible.com.watch movie Regression 2015 now Her new collection, NOW WE CAN ALL GO HOME: 3 NOVELLAS IN HOMAGE TO CHEKHOV, is now available from BkMk…
Recent Publications from Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson’s essay “On Impunity” was featured on Guernica Daily on November 26th: https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/andrew-johnson-on-impunity/ Andrew’s work also appeared recently in Killing the Buddha (June 18, 2014) and Crazyhorse 85 (Spring 2014). Andrew completed the MFA program in 2013 and is now director of Pilgrim Center in midtown Kansas City.
Request: Please Submit Email Addresses for Alumni Dinner
Invitations for the Alumni Dinner will soon be sent out, and Niki Casady is trying to collect as many current addresses for UMKC English alums as possible. If you have current, working email addresses for any English alums (including BA, MA, MFA, Language and Lit graduates, MCPE graduates, etc.), please send them to Niki – necwcb @…
Alumnus Update: Jordan Burr
After graduating from UMKC with his MA in English literature in 2011, Jordan Burr was accepted to the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas (advice to prospective Ph.D. applicants: apply early and to a ton of programs)! At KU, Burr was awarded a JoAnn Klemmer Research Assistantship, which allowed him to work closely with…
Johnson’s Recent Publications
Andrew Johnson (MFA 2013) recently published his essay “Sleeping In” in MAKE (Issue 14), his essay “Mezuzah” in Saint Katherine’s Review (Vol. 3 No. 3/4), his essays “Late Migration,” “Stuck,” and “Extinction” in Passages North (Issue 35), and his essays “Perhaps One Day This Will All Make Sense,” “Hypothetical Conversation,” and “Tangled Up” in Crazyhorse…
Metzger Presents at Medieval Conference
Cheryl Metzger (MA 2013) presented her paper “A Woman’s Handbook to Power: Christine de Pizan’s Scholastic Argument in Le Livre des Trois Vertus” at the “Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” Conference on April 4th and 5th in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina and King’s…