Candice Adams, ('04) is the Project editor/coordinator for a book packager in Austin, TX. Working with Aspen Publishers.

Matthew Apple, ('97) teaches at Doshisha University in Kyoto.

Francisco Aragón, ('03) co-editor, Berkeley Poetry Review, Univ of California Berkeley, Spring 1990; chapbook of poetry, Light, Yogurt, and Strawberry Milk, Momotombo Press, 1999; editor, Mark My Words: Five Emerging Poets, Momotombo Press, 2001; chapbook of poetry, In Praise of Cities: 3 Poems, Momotombo Press, 2001; chapbook of poetry, Tertulia, BOOKlyn, 2002; book of poetry Puerta del Sol, Bilingual Press, 2005; editor, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, University of Arizona Press, 2007. Poetry has appeared in the anthologies: American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, 2001; Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, 2001; Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, 2002; How to Be This Man, 2003; Bend Don’t Shatter: Poets on the Beginnings of Desire, 2004; Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, 2004; Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality, 2006; Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, 2007. He is the Director of Letras Latinas, the literary component of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Robert Archambeau, ('96) editor, Word Play Place, Swallow Press, 1998; book of poetry, Home and Variations, Salt Publishing, 2004; poetry and criticism have appeared in: Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, ACM, Seven Corners, Sharkforum, Keltoi, Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde in the Age of Post-Ideology; book of poetry, Laureates and Heretics, on Robert Haas, Robert Pinsky, John Peck, James McMichael and John Matthias is finished and being read by a publisher. Poetry has appeared in the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets, iUniverse Inc., 2001. He is the winner of the 2006 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award.

Kelley Beeson, ('99) poem, “Sestina of Naming,” Kalliope, 2001. She teaches at the Pittsburg Center for the Arts.

Mark Behr, ('98) novel, Embrace, Little Brown, 2001. He is an Associate Professor of creative writing and English at the College of Santa Fe.

Shannon Berry, ('05) essay, “Refiner’s Fire,” poem, “Ephetha, That is be Opened,” Dappled Things, Fall 2006; essay, “Reversion,” Dappled Things, Winter 2006/2007; essay “Communion of Saints,” Dappled Things, Spring 2007. She is teaching English as Second Language for a company called Professional English Advisors, Rome, Italy.

Karni Pal Bhati, ('01) book of poetry, On Another Ground, Ninety-Six Press, 2006. He teaches at Furman University.

J. Jackson Bliss, ('07) “Everyday Corporate America,” BlazeVox, Spring 2006; “Lost,” Right Hand Pointing, Fiction Issue 2006; “The Gift of Space,” Syntax, Issue 9; “Delilah in Collision,” The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spring 2007; “One Love,” Ink Collective, Issue 4; “Golden State,” SoMa Literary Journal, January 2007; “City Lunch,” 3:am Magazine, January, 2007; “Lost in my Writing,” Writer Advice, January-February 2007; "Hula Dancing in the Bronx" The Writers Post-Journal, 2007; "The Space Between Brooklyn and Manhattan," Word Riot, July 2007; "Baby Bash, Sean Kingston & Diddy," DJ Booth, 2007; "Change Gonna Come," Fringe Magazine, January 2008; "Piano Lessons," South Loop Review, September 2008; "Nimble Calligraphy," Stand Magazine, Fall 2008; and "The Molestation of Skinny Boys," African American Review, Winter 2009. Bliss was the winner of Notre Dame’s 2007 Sparks Prize.

Jenny Boully, ('02) “Lyric Essay,” Seneca, Spring 2001; extended version of “Lyric Essay” in Essay: An Argument, 2001; book of poetry, The Body, Slope Editions, 2nd printing, 2004; book of essays, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, Sarabande Books, 2007; chapbook of poetry, one love affair, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007; chapbook of poetry, Moveable Types, Noemi Press, 2007. Poetry has appeared in the anthology Best American Poetry 2002, Scribner, 2002. Available on-line poetry/prose include: “Amanita Nervosa,” Nerve, Summer 2003; “Moveable Types,” Maisonneuve, Feb/Mar 2004; “Sestina of Missed Connections,” McSweeney’s, March 30 2004; “Six Black & White Movies, in Which I Do Not Find You,” Tarpaulin Sky, Spring/Summer 2004; “How to Write on Grand Themes,” MiPoesias, Spring 2005; “[one love affair],” Coconut, Vol. 2, Fall 2005; “There Is Scarcely More Than There Is,” Softblow, November 2005; “The Sky That Looked Make-Believe; Buildings That Looked Real,” “the future imagined, the past imagined,” MiPoesias, Winter 2005; “Between Cassiopeia and Perseus,” Diagram, 6.1, March 2006; “22,” Coconut, Vol. 4, Spring 2006; “My Grandmother,” MiPoesias, Spring 2006; “Forecast Essay,” How2, 2.4, Summer 2006; “Kafka's Garden,” Siren, Summer 2006; “The Art of Fiction: An Essay,” Aiden Starr: The Journal, Fall 2006; and a forthcoming chapbook of poetry, of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon, Coconut. Boston Review featured her as a “Sampler Poet” in May/June 2006 issue. one love affair was nominated for five awards, of which it won two, from Coldfront Magazine. Her blog is http://jennyboully.blogspot.com/

Sarah Bowman, ('99) tenured in Department of English at Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago; teaching online for Boston University and University of California, Irvine.

Anne Bracewell, ('01) just joined the NYC Teaching Fellows beginning in June 2008. She will be teaching English in a high-needs school and completing an M.S. in English Teaching at Brooklyn College.

Jenny Bryant, ('02) poem, “Connections,” Shenandoah, 2002.

Kathleen Canavan, ('99) short story, “Refugee,” The New Yinzer, May 2004. Managing editor of ND Review.

Stacy Cartledge, ('00) cycle, “Topography,” Samizat #16 (US) and Wild Honey Press (Ireland), 2001; book of poetry, Within the Space Between, Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2007; Poetry editor, Georgetown Review; starts a new tenure track job at Delaware County Community College, 2008.

Lynne Chien, ('07) poem, “Twenty Four Hours,” Stone Table Review, December 2006; “f(x)= xy – 1,” RHINO, May 2007; three poems, “Afternoon,” “After Work,” and “American History Retold in Three Generations,” Susurrus, May 2007; poems "On Losing" & "Bride-Searching," The Spoon River Poetry Review, Summer/Fall Issue, 2008; "Martinez, CA," and "American History in Three Generations," Collaged Verse, May 2008.

Tim Chilcote, ('07) blogging at Great Lakes Guru.

Christina (Frohip) Clare, ('00) writing features and music reviews, “That lady is bangin,” “A rare species of rock,” “The Big Tease,” and “She’s got the beat,” chillmag.com.

Michael Collins, ('91) novel, Emerald Underground, Phoenix House, 1999; novel, The Keepers of Truth, Phoenix House, 2000 (short-listed for the Booker Prize); novel, The Keepers of Truth, Scribner, 2001; novel, Lost Souls, Viking/Penguin, 2004; novel, The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton, Bloomsbury, 2006; novel, Death of a Writer, Bloomsbury, 2006. Non-fiction, “Air Hunger,” has appeared in the anthology Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2004; Winner of the Fire & Ice Marathons. Faculty member at Southwestern Michigan College, 2008.

Dawn Comer, ('98) short story, “Of Roaring and Wonder Bread,” The Café Irreal, 2000; short story “Slug Spanker,” The Dream People (an e-zine), October/November, 2006.

Beth Couture, ('07) “The Stunted,” Georgetown Review, 2007.

Tom Coyne, ('99) short story, “Behind Sharp Branches,” Virgin Fiction 2, July 1999; novel, A Gentleman's Game, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001; paper edition, A Gentleman's Game, Grove Press, 2002; nonfiction, Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros, Gotham Books, 2006; non-fiction, A Course Called Ireland, (on-line excerpts) golf.com, (print) Gotham Books, 2008. Adjunct professor in the graduate Writing Studies Program at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, teaching fiction, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction workshops.

Christopher Crossen, ('92) book, Ask the Doctor: Hypertension, Andrews and McMeel Press, with Vincent Friedewald, 1994; book, Ask the Doctor: Asthma, Andrews and McMeel Press, with Vincent Friedewald, 1994; numerous articles in periodicals: CalBusiness, Pacific Discovery, Backpaker, Outside, and Couloir.

Renée D'Aoust, ('06) nonfiction, “Through the Blueness,” Bathyspheric Review, Fall 2004; “Sacred Colors, Frayed Memories,” Touchstone, 2005; “Missing Mao’s Ear,” Brevity, Spring 2005; “Graham Crackers,” Mid-American Review, V. 26.1, Fall 2005; “The Fly-Fisherman’s Waltz,” Kalliope, Fall 2005; “A Cow-Head Kettle,” North Central Review, Fall 2005; “F[x],” Harpur Palate, Winter 2005/2006; “Rippled Water,” 13th Moon, 2005/2006; “Bodies that Dance,” Dance Insider, April 2006; “Blue Mao Hat,” Under the Sun, Summer 2006; book review of Colette Inez’s memoir, Notre Dame Review, Spring 2006; interview with Lance Olsen, Notre Dame Review, Summer 2006; prose/poetry, “Ballerina Blunders,” Open Face Sandwich, 2007; “Daniela Can Fly,” Redwood Coast Review, January 2007; “Pearl Street,” RHINO, Spring 2007; and “The Sky Parted,” Notre Dame Review, Summer 2007. D’Aoust’s writing has appeared in the form of a gardening column in Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly Magazine and as both non-fiction and poetry in anthologies, including: “Replacing Fire,” Tree Magic CD Anthology, Sunshine Press; and “Shell of Your Body,” Cloven Sphere Poetry Anthology. “Graham Crackers,” originally published in Mid-America Review, was named a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2006. D’Aoust also took second place in the 2007 Georgia College & State University Arts & Letters Prize in Drama for her play, “Urban Vermin.” She received a Puffin Foundation grant to support her book Travels with Truffle: A Canine Tour of America, an NEA fellowship for Dance Criticism at American Dance Festival, and a chapter in Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance forthcoming from Pantheon (fall 2008). Along with several publications, such as Cadillac Cicatrix and Open Face Sandwich, she received a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2007; 2nd place in the New Letters annual essay contest, and 2nd place in drama from the Arts & Letters awards. Dance criticism and book reviews appeared in Ballet-Dance Magazine, Dance Insider, Brooklyn Rail, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Notre Dame Review. She is currently an instructor at North Idaho College.

Tony D'Souza, ('00) short story excerpts, “Pulled Triggers,” David Michael Kaplan’s Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction, Story Press, 1997; poem, “Cigarette Time,” Album, Spring 1998; short story, “Wirtschaftswunder,” Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 1998; book review, “Dogfight and Other Stories,” Notre Dame Review, Winter 1998; book review, “Ovid’s Concrete Labyrinth” Electronic Book Review, Summer 1999; book review, “In The House of Blue Lights,” Hollins Critic, June 1999; short story, “Young,” Scholastic Magazine, Winter 1999; short story, “Something’s Got to Happen,” Stand Magazine, Winter 1999; book review “A Blue Moon in Poorwater,” Notre Dame Review, Winter 1999; short story, “A Guy in Lansing,” Elysium, 2000; short story, “The Plague,” Iron Horse, 2000; poems, “Two Days After Noel,” “Shut Up, Sherrie!,” “Nice Things Late at Night,” “But We’re So Delightful,” The Juggler, 2000; short story, “North Country Interlude,” Imago, Spring 2001; short story, short story, “Taggers,” Notre Dame Review, Winter 2001; short story, “Last Story on Earth,” Takahe, Winter 2001; short story, “Africa Unchained,” Notre Dame Review, Summer 2002; short story, “We’re Real Cool,” Barbaric Yawp, 2003; short story, “The Hard Life,” Front&Centre, Fall 2004; short story, “The Red Coat,” The Literary Review, Fall 2004; poem, “Solitaire,” Teaparty, Spring 2005; poem, “Old Friends,” Notre Dame Review, Summer 2005; poem, “Sonnenizio on a Line from Addonizio,” Nimrod, Fall 2005; short story, “Club Des Amis,” The New Yorker, September 2005; novel, Whiteman, Harcourt, April, 2006 (second printing); “Monarchs,” Chicago Quarterly Review, Summer 2007; novel, Scent of Sandalwood, Harcourt, Fall 2007; novel The Konkans, releases from Harcourt (US), Portobello (UK), and Mondadori (Italy), early 2008. He has fiction, non-fiction, and poetry forthcoming in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Poets & Writers, The Wall Street Journal, Prospect (UK), Tin House, Salon, World View, Zembla, McSweeney's, Subtropics, Nimrod, Fiddlehead, Dark Horse. Winner of the Sue Kaufman prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his story “Djamilla” is in the O’Henry Awards Anthology. Tony has a feature article in the June 2007 of Outside Magazine, and has recently appeared on Dateline, the Today Show, NPR and the BBC talking about the Eric Volz murder trial, which he covered in Nicaragua. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship '08-'09.

Colby Davis, ('07) poem, "Science," Harpur Palate, 2008.

Lisa De Niscia, ('93) novel, My Valley is Icky Too, Firetrap Press, 2003; novel, Momentary Mother, Firetrap Press, 2007.

Sandy Dedo, ('06) poems, Sojourn.

Catherine Denby, ('94) anthology chapter, Love the Second Time Around, Outrider Press, June 2005. Faculty at Ivy Tech community College.

Kevin Carrizo di Camillo, ('95) book of poetry, Why I Drive Alfa Romeos, Typographeum, 1997; poems, The National Poetry Review, 2005; co-edited with Lawrence Boadt, John Paul II In The Holy Land, March 2005; cover poem, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fall 2006; poems, Prairie Fire, Vol. 28 No.1, Spring, 2007. The poem, “Why I Drive Alfa Romeos,” was in an anthology of Italian-American poets edited by Joanna Clapps Herman and Carol Bonomo Albright, Fordham University Press, 2007; poems appearing in the forthcoming anthology Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana, Fordham University Press, 2008; The Antigonish Review, and Poetry East; edited James Martin’s best-selling Becoming Who You Are, HiddenSpring, Fall 2007. Editor at Paulist Press/HiddenSprings Books.

Shaun Dillon, ('04) poems, FIELD, 2004; poems, South Carolina Review, 2004; editor, Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football, by Frank P. Maggio, with contributions by Jim Harper, Keith Jackson, and Joe Doyle and a blurb from Father Hesburgh, September 2007. Assistant editor at Da Capo Press in New York.

Mary Dixon, ('06) article on Mari Sandoz and her book Crazy Horse, Great Plains Quarterly Winter, 2007. Instructor of English for Liberty University's Distance Learning Program, full time English faculty for Central Community College in Hastings Nebraska.

Joseph Doerr, ('98) poems in the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets, iUniverse Inc., 2001; book of poetry, Order of the Ordinary, Salt Publishing, 2003; poems will appear in Vol. II of the Notre Dame poetry anthology edited by Orlando Menes, forthcoming. Poetry and criticism forthcoming in Stand and the Notre Dame Review. Visit his author site online at http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710122.htm. He teaches writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Visit Joe's YouTube 1984 rock star video.

Kevin Ducey, ('04) book of poetry, Rhinoceros, Copper Canyon Press, 2004. He is the managing editor at Scientific Journal. Madison, WI.

Stephanie Dunn, ('00) poem, “Dayo,” Still, 2001; play, Titty performed at Southwest Fulton County Arts Center, August 2007; published "Baad Bitches" & Sassy Supermammas: Black Power Action Films, University of Illinois Press, 2008. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Morehouse College.

Nora Edwards, ('02) poem, Thin Air, 2002.

Kristen Eliason, ('08) review, “DBR and the Mission,” Liquid Magazine, October 2006; "A Collection of Tiny Things," Reed Magazine, 2008 (forthcoming); "Abandonment for Two," The Bend, 2007; "Treatise on Drowning; or For Two Voices in 5/4," brownpaper, 2007.

Danna Ephland, ('06) poems, “He’s not leaving, he’s falling,” and “The promise of cheaper premiums,” Indiana Review; “Santa Cruz Winter,” Permafrost. Collaborative poem, “Days of the Week,” with Paulette Beete, appears in the anthology Saints of Hysteria: A Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry, Soft Skull Press, February 2007. Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College, adjunct teaching at Kellogg Community College.

Michael Estes, ('05) poem, Court Green, 2007; poem, "Interregnum," Margie, 2007. Poudre High School teacher in Colorado.

David Ewald, ('03) nonfiction profile, "Sand in the Salad Greens," Urban Seen, 2000; nonfiction profile, "Some People Never Leave," Urban Seen, 2000; story, "We Apologize for the Inconvenience," Spectrum, 2001; story, “Ten Who Made America!” Eclectica, Jan/Feb 2007; and story, "Harriet," The Harrow, May 2008. Website. He is an instructor at Front Range Community College, Denver, CO.

Clare Frohrip, ('00) Columnist for dykediva.com and senior editor at Kaplan Financial.

Esteban I.V. Galindo, ('97) story, “The Land of Monkeys and Horses,” Sin Fronteras: Writers Without Borders, 1998; poem, “Ode of the English Student,” The Crown, 2000.

Chris Gerben, ('03) Faculty at Stanford University.

Lisa Gonzales, ('05) chapbook of poetry, Arroyo, Momotombo Press, 2004; story, Chattahoochee Review, 2004. Science writer for NASA.

Darin Graber, ('08) published a translation of a German poem by Magdalena Jagelke, entitled "Grandmother is dead," in an online version of the magazine das geforene meer, Germany.

Kurt Haenicke, ('96) Director of Communications for the College of Health and Human Services at Western Michigan University.

Jarrett Haley, ('08) short story, “Here on the Ground,” placed third in Playboy’s twentieth annual College Fiction Contest, 2007.

Kevin Hattrup, ('07) High school English teacher, Catholic High School of Baltimore.

Justin Haynes, ('03) Received a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a Djerassi fiction fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sean Henry, ('96) story, Callaloo 21.1, Winter 1998; story, Obsidian II; story, Salamander; novel, Limbo, Akashic Books, 2004.

Lily Hoang, ('06) novel, Parabola, Chiasmus Press, Fall 2007; winner of the Chiasmus Press First Book Contest; novel, Changing, Fairy Tale Review Press, forthcoming Winter 2008; Hoang’s “Period: A Biographical Definition,” appeared in the anthology Wreckage to Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, Spuyten Duyvil Press, Spring 2008. Other work includes: “30: Radiance,” Alice Blue Review; “23: Removing,” “24: Returning,” “25: Innocence,” The Unlikely Story; “Personal Equation,” Black Warrior Review; “News: October 11, 2005,” Quarter After Eight; and “1: Creation,” “2: The Receptive,” “3: Sprouting,” Mad Hatters’ Review; The Evolutionary Revolution, Les Figues Press. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Women's Studies at St Mary's College, Indiana.

Andrew Hughes, ('95) is the Arts and entertainment editor, South Bend Tribune, Indiana.

Joseph Hughes, ('06) poem, “Tongue, Variations,” appeared in the anthology Best New Poets 2006.

Kathryn Hunter, ('07) is a technical editor for the engineering firm, Pipeline Renewal Program, BP Alaska, Anchorage.

Angela Hur, ('05) novel, The Queens of K-Town, MacAdam Cage, September 2007.

Robert Imbur, ('01) is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Toledo.

Kelly Kerney, ('04) novel, Born Again, Harcourt, September 2006.

Christina Kubasta, ('93) teaches composition and literature at Marian College.

Evan (Petee) Kuhlman, ('04) story, Madison Review, 2003; story, Third Coast, 2003; story, Glimmer Train, 2005; story, Notre Dame Review, 2006; novel, Wolf Boy, Shaye Areheart/Random House, 2006.

Alan Lindsay, ('91) novel, A: A Novel, Red Hen Press, 2004; short story, “Idling,” appeared in a short story collection, The Crucifix is Down, Red Hen Press, 2005. Professor, Department of English/Fine Arts/Foreign Languages New Hampshire Technical Institute.

Wei Liu, ('03) book, Biking Out, ProStar Publications, 2002.

Alex Lobdell, ('97) story, “Is that religion in my science fiction or science fiction in my religion?” appeared in the Catholic San Francisco anthology, Infinite Space, Infinite God, Twilight Times Books, September 2006; anthology was the winner of the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Science Fiction.

Alexander MacLeod, (97) story, "The Loop," Notre Dame Review, Winter/Spring 2008; fiction collection, Light Lifting, Biblioasis, forthcoming 2009. He is an Assistant Professor at St. Mary's University in Halifax.

Corey Madsen, ('04) Won 2nd place for her novel, An Evensong for Father Bob, at the West Virginia Writer’s Conference, June 2006. Production editor for printing press at West Virginia University.

Jessica Maich, ('97) poems, “The Robakowski Sisters,” “Ford Street 1923,” and “Al's Anchor Inn,” Notre Dame Review, No.7, Winter 1999; chapbook, The West End, Green Bean Press, 2001. Poems appear in the anthology Twenty-Four Questions for Billy, Finishing Line Press, 2006. Teaches at Saint Mary's.

Jayne Marek ('05), story, “Click,” Utah English Journal, 2004; non-fiction, “Bird-Witted on Black Hawk Island: Animals in the Poetics of Lorine Niedecker and Marianne Moore,” Poetries of the 1940s/National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine, 2004. A chapter on black women editors in Bonnie Kime Scott’s anthology, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections; poem, “This Close and No Further,” appeared in the anthology, And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana, edited by Jenny Kander and C.E. Greer, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. Teaches at Franklin College in Indiana.

Mark Marino, ('96) adaptation of the work of Chilean author Diamela Eltit, “Lumperica Animado,” Iowa Review Web, December 2004; electronic novel, 12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel, Second Person: Role Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, MIT Press, 2006; “Labyrinth,” Notre Dame Review. Marino currently teaches writing at the University of Southern California; formed a new online forum for discussions of electronic literature, entitled Writer Response Theory (http://writerresponsetheory.org); "a little show of hands" published in Hyperrhiz; "Marginalia in the Library of Babel," New River; and "The Los Wikiless Timespedia," Bunk Magazine. He continues to edit Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com/). Teaches writing at USC.

David Mayer, ('01) poem, “Magnolia,” Spoon River Poetry Review, 2001; poem, “What I've Learned from Watching Movies,” The North American Review, 2001. A writer at American Greetings in Cleveland, OH.

Will McGee, ('93) story, “The Bee Hive,” Notre Dame Review, Winter 1999.

Janet McNally, ('05) story, “Winter Positions,” Iron Horse Literary Review, January 2005. Teaches at Canisius High School.

Elizabeth Meyer, (00) Teaches creative writing and literaure at Oak Bridge Montessori Middle School, Avilla, IN.

Thomas Miller, ('06) poem, “On the Origins of Sea Holly,” Science Creative Quarterly, March 29, 2006; story, “The Devil and Baldrick Beckenbauer,” appeared in the speculative fiction anthology The New Book of Masks, Raw Dog Press, November 2006; story, “Twenty-one Stories about Gun Control,” Harpur Palate, Winter 2006; story, “Tell the Brick Joke,” Cream City Review, Spring 2007; "The Lightning Farmer," Knock Journal #8; "The Leonids," Brown Paper #1; and "The Smokecarver," Dark Distortions, Scotopia Press, 2008. He teaches freshman English at Duquesne University and works as an EMT.

Tom O'Connor, ('99) scholarly book, Poetic Acts & New Media, The University Press of America, 2006. Poems have appeared in Poetry Southeast, Pebble Lake Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Burnside Review, Danta, The Bend, Mankato Poetry Review, Nebula, No Exit, Notre Dame Review, Soul Fountain, Touchstone, Curbside Review, Prism Quarterly, The Aurora Review, and Skidrow Penthouse; scholarly articles have appeared in The Journal of Film & Video, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Social Semiotics. Winner of the AWP Intro Award in poetry for Binghamton University in 2001.

Jere Odell, ('95) poems have appeared in the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets, iUniverse Inc., 2001; poem, “Bad Poem,” Pleiades, 2007.

Gwendolyn Oxenham, ('06) reach her blog at: www.thesoccerproject.com

Ann Palazzo, ('93) Teaches at Columbus State, tenured.

Rumit Pancholi, ('08) publications: "Purity," The Banyan Review, Spring 2006; "Following Mother's Footsteps," "When There is No Milkman," "Undesirables," "If You Could," Double Dare Press, Summer 2006; "Gumby Reads the Kama Sutra," "She Was Never Good at Goodbyes," Foliate Oak, November 2006; "The Empty Spaces After You," "Rewriting an Ending," Antithesis Common, Winter 2006-2007; "Wanting a Boy," "Churchyard Maples," The Clemson Poetry Review, January 2007; "All Things That Burn," High Altitude Poetry, March 2007; "Awake Under Anaesthesia," "Anatomy of a Ghost," and "After David," SNReview, March 2007; "Maharajah's Last Winter," Iodine Poetry Review, Spring, 2007; "Ruined Turnovers," Wild Goose Poetry Review, Spring 2007; "Morning," "Rush of Summer," "One Way Out," Rainy Day, Spring 2007; "The Opossum," Emerson Review, April 2007; "Carrying the Dead to Wherever They Go," Tipton Poetry Journal, April 2007. His poem, "Send-off" received honorable mention for the WriteCorner Press Poetry Prize, April 2007; three poems, "The Empty Spaces After You," "Rewriting an Ending," "How to Spot an Untouchable," received honorable mention in Atlantic Monthly's 2007 Student Writing Contest, April 2007; "Astraphobia," "On Developing a Phobia," "Birthday Wish," Blue Earth Review, May 2007; "The Opossum," The Avatar Review, May 2007; "Grandfather to a Stranger," Santa Clara Review, May 2007; "Bathameez," Lines and Stars, May 2007; "Let Go," "Morning," "In Case of Emergency," The Houston Literary Review, June 2007; "Broken Gaydar," Gertrude, Summer, 2007; "Ruined Turnovers," Other Poetry, Summer 2007; "Divvying the Family Fortune," Brown Paper, Fall 2007. His poem, "Soil" was a finalist for the 2007 Obsidian Prize, High Desert Journal. Publications for 2008 include: "Fists," Pank, January 2008; "Why Gandevi Has No Laundromat," Flint Hills Review, 2008; "Spaces of Art," "The Elegist," Harpur Palate, Spring 2008; "The Sounds After You," The Strip, Spring 2008; "A Lesson of Hands," Iron Horse Literary Review, Spring 2008; "Counting Before Dying," Stirring, Spring 2008; "Anatomy of a Ghost," GreenTower Press/The Laurel Review, chapbook, Spring 2008; "Living Man, Dead Man," Gulf Stream Magazine, Spring 2008; "Remains," Folio: A Literary Journal, Spring 2008; "Letter from Mother, After She Stops Speaking," Red Clay Review, Spring 2008; and "Getting the ‘Provisional' Off My License," "Send-off," Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spring 2008; "Eleven-Letter Word," Kennesaw Review, Summer 2008; "Appetite," Painted Bride Quarterly, 2008/2009.

Rebecca Hazelton Pennell, ('05) poems: "Temporary," Margie Vol. 2, 2004; "Eve's Progress," Salt Hill, 2004; "Announcement over the Intercom, Hartwell, Georgia," Chattahoochee Review, Spring 2005; "Manifest Destiny," Chattahoochee Review, Spring 2005; "Your Life as Parable," Chattahoochee Review, Spring 2005; "Findings," Notre Dame Review, 2005; "Apology," Notre Dame Review, 2005; "Hush," Wildlife, 2006;

"You've Thrown Your Back Again," Crab Creek Review, Winter 2006; "Oh Answer It, Answer It," Puerto del Sol, Winter 2007; "The Earth Doesn't Mind," RHINO; "Write Yellow," SHAMPOO 28 (online) November 2006; "Hinx Minx," Slipstream 27; "I Never Wanted to Be the Missus," LaFovea; "Ampersand," Midway Journal, February 2008; "You Say the Burning Bush is Rhetoric," Midway Journal, February 2008; "A Distinction," Coconut Issue 11, 2007; "Say Arrows, Say Eros," Coconut Issue 11, 2007; reviews: The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder, American Book Review, May/June 2007: The New Lyric Issue. She is teaching in the First Year Writing Program at Florida State University.

Evan Petee (Kuhlman), ('04) novel, Wolf Boy, Shaye Areheart Books, 2006, hardcover, Three Rivers Press, 2006, paperback; stories have appeared in Madison Review, Third Coast, and Glimmer Train.

Krista Peterson, ('03) short story, “The Untimely Death of Casey Johnson,” Quirk, 2002.

Joanna Philbin, ('03) Staff writer on NBC's "Las Vegas" last season, 2007. Developing a pilot and writing a novel for Alloy Entertainment, the creator of the "Gossip Girl" series.

Katherine Pilles-Genaw, ('07) English and Math teacher, CITE Business School, Philadelphia.

Danielle Rado ('05) story, “The Sisters at the Cape,” SNReview, Spring 2006; story, “The Boy Who Sits,” Clackamas Review, Spring 2007; story, “How to Slice a Doll,” Mochila Review, Spring 2007; and “The____Between Us” is forthcoming in Inspired Pen Magazine. Teaches composition at Virginia Commonwealth University.

NoNi Ramos, ('01) Middle school English teacher and drama teacher, Texas.

Susan Blackwell Ramsey, ('08) poems, “Benediction, Off Beat,” “Gaudeamus, Full Band Version,” “Pattern and Ground,” Poetry East, Spring 2007; poems, “Storytellers,” “Stalling,” Poetry East, Summer 2007; poem, “And All Trades, Their Gear and Tackle and Trim,” Poetry East, Fall 2007; and poems, “Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg,” “Peripheral: Emerson, 1847,” Prairie Schooner, Winter, 2007. Most recently, Susan’s poem, “Lidian Emerson Watches Her House Burn, Concord, July 23, 1872” was the winner of the Marjorie J. Wilson Award for 2007 of the Margie Review: American Journal of Poetry. Two publications forthcoming: "Boliche," "Neruda in Kalamazoo," The Southern Review; and "Sexing the Alligator," "The Genome for Lucky," Marlboro Review.

Stephanie Reidy, ('04) Working at Seattle University, a Jesuit school, teaching children's literature in the department of education. Teaching a creative writing program to the female inmates of King County Jail, the main Seattle jail. Serving as the editor for a small press, Headonfire Books, also on the steering committee and editing a newsletter for a private Orthodox Christian preparatory academy.

Amy Reese, ('01) poem, Permafrost, 2000.

Michael Richards, ('02) short story, “Della,” The Southeast Review, Fall 2002; two short stories, Quirk, 2002; short story, “Woodcarving,” The Pecan Grove Review, Spring 2003; a collection of short stories, Floating Midnight, River Lily Press, 2005; novel excerpt, “The Bells of Santo Nino,” in the 7th edition of Pecan Grove Review. Michael is teaching in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Matthew Ricke, ('06) story, “A Regular Paradise,” The Harpur Palate, 5.2, Winter/Spring 2006.

Jeffrey Roessner, ('98) editor, The Possibility of Language, Writers Club Press, 2001; essay, “We All Want to Change the World: Postmodern Politics and the Beatles' White Album,” Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four, SUNY University Press, 2006; book on songwriting, Creative Guitar: Writing and Playing Rock Songs with Originality, forthcoming from music publisher, Mel Bay. Chair of English department at Mercyhurst College Erie, PA, associate professor.

Pablo Ros, ('07) is a weekly columnist and criminal courts beat writer, South Bend Tribune. In 2007 he received a state award for a series on local immigration enforcement.

Michael Russell, ('96) short story, “The Speed of Sound,” The New England Review, Fall 1999; short story, “Smoke on the Water,” The New England Review, Spring 2000; additional short stories have appeared in Third Coast and Salt Hill. Russell’s “Smoke on the Water” has been optioned by Kingdom Country Productions and will be made into a film. Teaches at Emerson College.

Dustin Rutledge, (06) is a Lecturer at Boston College.

Blake Sanz, ('01) story, “Strangers,” Xavier Review, 2004. Teaching in the Writing Program at the University of Denver .

Cynthia Searfoss, ('95) has been named to the position of alumni affairs and campus ceremonies director at Indiana University South Bend.

Sheheryar Sheikh, ('07) story, “Bernadette,” Bewildering Stories, April 2007; story, “Marking January,” Black Warrior Review, Fall 2007; story, “An Arrow From the Great Wall,” The New Orphic Review, Fall 2007; story, “Hocus Locus Pocus Focus,” 5_Trope, Fall 2007.

Mike Smith, ('01) poems appeared or forthcoming in Carolina Quarterly, Borderlands, DIAGRAM, Hotel Amerika, Quarter after Eight, Faultline, The Nebraska Review, Notre Dame Review and the North American Review, Fugue, Gulf Stream, Main Street Rag and Zone 3; chapbook, Anagrams of America, Issue 30 On-line of Mudlark: Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2005; chapbook, Small Industry, South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina; poem, ‘Byron in Baghdad,’ The Iowa Review, April 2008; poetry book, How to Make a Mummy, CustomWords, an imprint of Word Press, May 2008. Smith also had poems appear in the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets, iUniverse Inc., 2001. Appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Literature Department at American University for 2006-2007, teaching at American and George Washington Universities.

Marcela Sulak, ('92) poem, “Leah, the First Wife,” Daughters of Sarah, Spring 1995; poem, “The Beachey-Mennonite Cleaning Girl,” The Other Side, November 1995; poem, “Postcard with Poppies,” Greenfuse, Fall 1995; poems, “Hunger,” “Sliva,” “The Certainty that kills is the only certainty,” and “Dogwood Woman,” The Notre Dame Review, Fall 1995; poem, “For the Incomplete,” Daughters of Sarah, Spring 1996; “The Swing,” Kalliope, 18.1, Spring 1996; poems, “Visiting Terezin,” “Valesso,” The Notre Dame Review, 1997; poems, “What the Immigrant Said,” “For S. on your Birthday,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 10, 1997; poem,“Witness,” X-Connect, June 1997; poem, “January Grackles,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 12, Fall 1998; poem, “A Girl Foresees Her Future on the Golden Crescent,” Indiana Review, Fall 2001; poems, “What the Refugee Said,” “Summer in Libechov,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 2001; poem, “Ode to the Eighties, or Louise, Texas Prepares for NAFTA,” Jabberwock, Winter 2002; poems, “Comforts of Home,” “What the Traveler Said,” The Notre Dame Review, 14, 2002; poems, “Falling Fruit,” “Dyeing Your Hair in a Different Language,” Spoon River Review, XXVII.2, Summer/Fall 2002; poem, “What the Sister Said,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 20, Spring/Summer 2003; poem, “Crop Dusting,” South Dakota Review, 41.3, Fall 2003; poems, “Food, A Travelogue,” “An Olive, A Letter,” “It was already March,” Fence, Winter/Spring 2003-2004; poem, “Exiting Central Park,” The Notre Dame Review, 18, Spring 2004; poems, “Plums #2,” “Construction Site with Extenuating Circumstances,” Quarterly West, 2004; poem, “The History of the Radish,” River Styx, Winter 2004; poem, “The History of Brussels Sprouts,” River Styx, 2005; poem, “Making Sense of the Senses,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 24, Spring/Summer 2005; poem, “Madam Sosostris at the Menil,” Sulphur River Review, XXI.2, Fall 2005; book-length translation from Czech, May, by Karel Hynek Macha, Twisted Spoon Press, 2005; poem, “Platitudes at Sea,” The Bend, Spring 2006; poems, “Not a Ghazal,” “The Unsettled Land Between,” Third Coast, Spring 2006; poem, “Anorexia, with chorus,” HarpurPalate, 7.1, Summer 2007. Poem, “The Comforts of Home,” also appeared in the ten year anthology of The Notre Dame Review, Fall 2006. Sulak has a chapbook, Of All The Things That Don’t Exist, I Love You Best, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, Kentucky, November 2008. Assistant Professor of Literature at American University.

Daniel Sumrall, ('03) poem, “Idiopathy” Dispatch, Winter 2006. Poems have also appeared in Pettycoat Relaxer and Paperstreet. He is an Adjunct English instructor at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT and has started a monthly internet journal Gently Read Literature.

Sara Swanson, ('03) short story, “Four: Mothers Who Aren't,” Tampa Review, Fall 2003; short story, “Recovery,” Connecticut Review, Spring 2005; short story, “A Smooth Patch,” Arkansas Review, December 2005.

James Ellis Thomas, ('98) story, “The Saturday Morning Carwash Club,” The New Yorker, 2000; story, “Triumph of the Southside Ladyjacks,” The New Yorker, 2004. Thomas’ stories have appeared in the anthologies: New Stories from The South: The Year's Best, 2001, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001; and The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing By Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures, Beacon, 2001.

Charles Valle, ('03) poems, Quirk, 2002; poem, “On a Theory of Boxes,” Hiram Poetry Review, 2003; poem, “Skin's Performative Acts,” Good Foot, 2003; poem, “AWP Y'All,” Kiosk, 2004, and Eye-Rhyme, 2004; poem, “PoCo Pontamime,” Eye-Rhyme, 2004; poems, “Part the velvet red...” and “Eurydice, his beloved,” Berkeley Poetry Review, 2004; non-fiction, “Faulty bumper sticker,” Lungfull!, 2004. Valle’s work has also appeared in Blue Sky Review, 42Opus, and Flyaways. Managing editor of Fence Magazine.

Cynthia VanderVen, ('98) Teaching at a college preparatory high school in Gainesville, Georgia.

Josephine Cameron Johnson Vodicka, ('00) recently released the CD “Close Your Eyes,” available on iTunes. Website.

John Michael Vore, ('93) The Raft: Notes Towards Rules of Order for a Digital Age, Firetrap, 2001; Tell Me What Home is Like, Firetrap, 2001; Moving Into History, Firetrap, 2004; Website and Blog .

Charles Walton, ('99) teaches at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

James Matthew Wilson, ('05) review, “How to Fill an Empty House,” Danta; poem, “Hyacinth,” Edge City Review, March 2004; poem, “Appropriations from China,” The Bend, April 2004; poem, “Verse Letter to My Father,” The Bend, May 2005; poem, “Song,” Measure, March 2006; poem, “Beyond Gibralter,” The Dark Horse, June 2006; poem, “Their Time Up at State College,” The Bend, May 2007; editor, “Recent Irish Poetry,” The Bend. Writing has also appeared in Contemporary Poetry Review, which began printing his Our Steps amid a Ruined Colonnade: Chapters on Contemporary Poetry and the Academy in serial format; article on Yvor Winters and Emily Dickinson, Christianity and Literature, Spring 2006. His work continues to appear in Contemporary Poetry Review andd other literary and scholarly journals. He joined the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University.

Timothy Worrall, (95) is teaching at Trinity Valley School, a private school in Ft. Worth, TX.

Amy Wray (Irish), (98) chapbook, Creations Stories, Green Fuse Press, 2008.

Christina Yu, ('08) "The Girls of Sigma Psi," Gargoyle Issue #53; "Variations on an Unknown Theme," Indiana Review 30.1; "Christmas in the Neighborhood," 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology.