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STUDENT
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| Carol
Muske Dukes |
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Her poem, "Our Kitty," which appeared
in The Evansville Review in 2000, was recently selected
for Best
American Poetry 2001, edited by Robert Hass. |
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| Susan
Wheeler |
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Her poem, "Self and Attributes,"
which appeared in The Evansville Review
in 2000, was recently selected for Pushcart
Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2002 Edition,
edited by Bill Henderson. |
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| Louis
Hatchett |
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Louis Hatchett's latest book is Mencken's
Americana. He is a graduate of the University of
Evansville's Creative Writing Program and is an independent
scholar and writer from Henderson, Kentucky. He has a master's
degree in history from Western Kentucky State University.
With William K. McNeil, he has written and published several
comprehensive discographies, including volumes on Fred Astaire
and Al Jolson. |
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| Jane
Friedman |
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| Bill
Notter |
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Mr. Notter completed an MFA in poetry
at the University of Arkansas. After graduating from the
University of Evansville, he poured concrete, fixed tires,
dug post holes for John Grisham, picked cotton, and worked
as an alcohol and drug counselor. He currently spends
summers working as a Forest Service cultural resources
interpreter in Wyoming, and enjoys photography, hiking,
and drag racing. Bill has won two Walton Fellowships in
Poetry from the University of Arkansas and a Chester H.
Jones Foundation poetry prize. He has a chapbook published
by Texas Review Press, and has been published in Alligator
Juniper and The Formalist.
Click here to see a sample of his poetry |
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| Lisel
Mueller |
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Ms. Mueller ('44), a former University of
Evansville student who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana
State University Press), recently received the Ruth Lilly
Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards
in the English language. The Prize of $100,000 is one of
the largest to poets in the United States. Joseph Parisi,
Editor of Poetry Magazine and Chair of the selection
committee, recently made the announcement. |
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| Kate Slavens (2007) |
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Kate Slavens is currently working for the Peace Corps in Mali, Africa. Read her latest letter to the department here. |
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| Benjamin
Vogt (1999) |
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Benjamin Vogt ('99) was born in Oklahoma City and has
lived in Minnesota, Indiana, and England. He has a B.F.A.
from the University of Evansville, an M.F.A. from The Ohio
State University, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry
at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. He received the
Joy Bale Boone Award from Wind Magazine and was
a finalist for the 2003-04 Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell
University. He's also the recipient of a $5,000 Dorothy
Sargent Rosenberg Annual Poetry Prize. Of his experience
at UE, he says, "I firmly believe that only a UE education,
in this English department, could have prepared me for what's
come after." His newest chapbook, Indelible Marks,
is currently availble from Pudding House Publications.
Click here to see a sample of his poetry. |
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| Kristina
Johnson |
| Ms. Johnson ('02), a former student at the
University of Evansville with a double major in Creative
Writing and International Studies and a minor in German,
recently received a Fulbright Fellowship. She is currently
an assistant teaching English in secondary schools in Germany. |
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| Corinna McClanahan ('08) |
| Ms. McClanahan was recently accepted into the graduate program in fiction at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, and was awarded the John Grisham Fellowship. |
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| Jeanine
Kerridge |
A former English major at the University
of Evansville, Ms. Kerridge (2000) was accepted into both
Harvard and Yale Law Schools, an accomplishment she credits
to hard work and to help from her English professors Dr.
Bill Baer and Dr. John Haegert during her years at the University
of Evansville.
Click
here to read the rest of the article. |
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| David
McCracken |
| Recent graduate David McCracken received a
three-month-long summer internship at Valhalla Motion Pictures
in Beverly Hills, California, for the summer of 2003. Valhalla
Motion Pictures is the producer of the Terminator
films, Aliens, Armageddon, and the Hulk.
David is currently pursuing a graduate degree in creative
writing at Ball State. |
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| Alan
Ackmann |
| A former English and writing major at the
University of Evansville, Mr. Ackmann ('01) recently graduated
from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University
of Arkansas (one of the top writing programs in the
country) in fiction. He has published his work in prestigious
magazines and journals such as McSweeney's and
the Ontario Review. |
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| Nancy
Dryden |
When Losing Means Winning
(Reprinted from UE Magazine, Fall 1997)
When Nancy Dryden ('96) began her first year at the
University of Iowa Law School, she had more to deal with
than mounds of information, detailed lectures, case briefings,
and little free time.
Click here to read the rest of the article. |
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| Mat
Smart |
Mr. Smart, a former theatre and creative writing
major at the University of Evansville completed his MFA
at the University of California, San Diego. He also recently
had his play, The Bee-Bop Heard in Okanawa, produced
at the New Harmony Theatre where he was their first ever
Student Playwright in Residence. The play has also been
selected to be read at the Eugene O'Neil festival in New
Haven, Connecticut this summer.
Click
here to read a review of Mat Smart's latest play |
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| Henrik
Rutgersson (2002) |
| Mr. Rutgersson ('02), a recent graduate of
the Creative Writing program, recently completed a Masters
degree in film production and theatre performance at Humboldt
State University in northern California. |
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| Jane
Springer (1992) |
| J.D. McClatchy recently chose Jane Springer's
first book of poetry, Dear Blackbird, to be the
recipient of The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry. The book
was published by the University of Utah Press in Spring
of 2007. Ms. Springer is a graduate student in the creative
writing program at Florida State University. |
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| Kisha
Tracy (2002) |
| Kisha Tracy ('02), former UE student with
a major in English Literature and a double minor in French
and history, is currently attending graduate school at the
University of Connecticut. Presently working on a masters
in Medieval Studies, her major area is French medieval literature
with minor concentations in English literature and Latin.
In the Spring of 2003, she presented research at the 38th
International Congress on Medieval Studies held in Kalamazoo,
Michigan. She is also a teaching assistant in the Department
of Freshman English and teaches literature-based freshman
composition. |
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| Barbara
Snyder (1981) |
| Barbara Snyder received the 2003 President's
Award and was recently named a fellow of the American Medical
Writer's Association. She is listed in the 2002 and 2003
Marquis Who's Who in America. She lives in Mason,
Ohio. |
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| Anna
Brecke (2003) |
Anna Brecke is a free-lance hair and make-up
artist working in documentary film for PBS and others with
recent credits including The Most Dangerous Woman in
America for NOVA and Hitler's Lost Plan for
the History Channel. She is also in the M.A. English program
at Simmons College in Boston.
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| Andrew Frost
(2004) |
| Andrew Frost, a graduate of the B.F.A. program
in creative writing, irecently completed his M.F.A. in poetry
at the University of Oregon where he studied with Dorianne
Laux, Garrett Hongo, and Pimone Triplett. |
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| Carla Coleman
(1995) |
| Recently began a tenure track position in
the English department at the University of South Carolina,
Aiken, where she's an assistant professor of Nineteenth
Century British literature. |
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| Kristen Woszczynski
(2009) |
| English
Major Spends Semester in South Africa |
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