Student Publications

Class of 2011

Marilyn Bousquin

• "The Bruise" appeared in River Teeth Volume 14.2, Spring 2013
• An excerpt from Marilyn’s memoir-in-progress (thesis), Searching for Salt, will appear in Kate Hopper's Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, to be published by Viva Editions spring 2012.

Joan Hanna

• A chapbook of poems, Threads, is now available from Finishing Line Press
• Joan is the assistant managing editor at River Teeth.
• Joan is the creative nonfiction editor and assistant editor at r.kv.r.y.
• Joan is a regular contributor to Author Exposure
• “Breathing” (creative nonfiction) was published by the quarterly magazine r.kv.r.y. and appeared in the October issue.
• "Dragonflies" was published in Common Threads spring/summer 2010
• "Ghosts" was published in the fall/winter 2009/2010 issue of Common Threads.

Detrick Hughes

• Sugar-Tooth Confession was published by Nebo Publishing (November 2012)
• Published I Am Poet in 2009.

Kimberlee Medicine Horn Jackson

• Guest speaker for the Native American Literature class at Bowling Green State University Firelands Campus
• Key speaker at Ashland Theological Seminary, "Created in God's Image, Walking Holy Ground, Seeing Christ through Native American Eyes"
• The Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought published “Ota K' te Goes to Boarding School,” “My Boys in the Big Muddy,” “Warrior Woman” and “C'ante Was'te Win” in the Fall 2011 issue.
• Kimberlee was awarded first place in the Geauga Park District 15th Annual Nature Writing Contest for her poem “He watches.”

Jon Kerstetter

• "Triage," first published in River Teeth, was selected by Guest Editor Cheryl Strayed for inclusion in Best American Essays 2013.
• Jon gave an author interview Friday, November 28, 2012 at 8:15 a.m. with KXIC radio in Iowa City, IA.
• “Triage” and “Date Palms” will appear in River Teeth 13.2.
• Jon presented at The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, a conference held at the University of Iowa. His presentation, “Physician as Soldier: Physician as Writer – Reflections in Essay” took place on April 21, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.

David MacWilliams

• "Sound Waves" was published by Mason's Road
• "Life Lesson, Take Two" was included in an anthology, Littlest Blessings, from Whispering Angel Books
• David was selected for a two-week residency as a fellow in creative nonfiction at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in September 2012
• Presented "Loss and Gain: The Elegiac Tone in Creative Nonfiction" at the annual College English Association meeting in Richmond, Virginia, March 29-31, 2012.

Rachel Peterson

• Rachel is now serving as an intern at The Review Review
• "Elegy of the Gun," published by Los Angeles Review, was nominated for this year's Best New Poets anthology
• "Harlan County" was published in the Winter 2012 issue of Arsenic Lobster
• "Ink" appeared in Literary Imagination

Nicole Robinson

• "Dear Great Blue Heron" appeared in Literary Imagination
• "Genesis" and "Trust Because" appeared in r.kv.r.y

Ginny Taylor

• "Odds and Ashes: A Litany for Wounded Voices" was published in the Fall 2012 issue of Jet Fuel Review
• Ginny received a fellowship for a Writers in the Heartland week-long residency in Illinois in October 2012
• "Everything," a flash nonfiction essay, won first place in the nonfiction category at Whispering Prairie Press Writers Contest and appears in the 10th Anniversary Edition of Kansas City Voices
• "Ragged Edges" appears in the spring 2012 edition of Soundings Review
• "Staying Close" was included in the collection of essays This I Believe: On Love published fall 2010.

Marci Vogel

• Poems are forthcoming in FIELD and Seneca Review in spring 2013
• Admitted to the PhD Program in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Southern California. Marci was offered the Provost's Fellowship
• Chapbook of poems, Valiant, published by Finishing Line Press
• Poem accepted for publication in the spring 2012 issue of Colorado Review
• Poems in Hawai'i Pacific Review, Santa Clara Review, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA
• "She Slips a Totem Under Her Pillow" was accepted for publication by Colorado Review
• "My Father, on the Small Screen" was included in Spillway
• "Panorama Highway" was published in the spring 2011 issue of Colorado Review

David Wright

• David is now a tenure-track faculty member at Monmouth College (IL), where he will be teaching creative writing and American literature
• The Small Book of Bach is under contract with Wipf & Stock to be published fall 2013
• Recent poems have appeared in The McNeese Review, Hobart, and Bluestem.
• "Taking Fight with Ferlinghetti" and "Bach's Invention for First Grader, Wax Paper, and Comb" accepted for publication in TETYC
• "If You Knew the Hour," "Tracing the Ginkgo Leaf," "After David Hooker," and "Along I-72, Early October, I Consider My Debt to James Wright and Steve Jobs (among others)" accepted for publication in Relief.
• Review of A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith (Tupelo, 2012) will appear spring 2012 in Books & Culture
• Gave a talk and a reading at the sixth gathering of Mennonite/s Writing on the campus of Eastern Mennonite University
• "In the Vernacular Gallery" included in The Christian Century
• Four of his "Manifestos in the Voices of the Dead" appeared in Avatar Review
• "Paul Plays a Bouree" appeared online March 15, 2011 at Wunderkammer Magazine.
• David was the featured poet in the March issue of the journal from The Center for Mennonite Writing (http://www.mennonitewriting.org/). They featured a short essay and a suite of Bach poems, "Five Sarabandes."
• A poem about Nietzsche, "Translations IV," appeared in March 2010 in Wunderkammer.
• "Two Suppers at Emmaus by Caravaggio," appeared in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Books and Culture.
• "Sonnet for Bach's Boys to Consider" appeared in Poetry East.
• "Unrestored Prophet's Head" appeared in Image.