Alli Jordan (MFA 2014) received a grant from the Women’s Council of the University of Missouri-Kansas City to travel to Georgia to do research on the writer Flannery O’Connor. Jordan plans to use the research to write a play about O’Connor during the time when her first collection of short stories was published. Georgia College and…
Bar-Nadav’s Recent Publications
Poet and faculty member Hadara Bar-Nadav recently celebrated the following: Awards/Nominations –Winner, Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Finalist, Rilke Poetry Prize, University of North Texas, for Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (2014). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Bellingham Review, for “I am Only Home…
Hirthler Presents at Medicine/Writing Conference
Second-year MFA candidate Maureen Hirthler has been selected to host a discussion at the eighth annual Examined Life Conference, April 10-12, sponsored by The University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The three-day conference will focus on the links between the science of medicine and the art of writing. Keynote…