2019
Portland Review received a 2019 Literary Magazine Fund Grant, awarded by the Amazon Literary Partnership and CLMP.
Andrew Mitin (MFA '16) published his first novel, Time Spent Away, with Adelaide Books on October 1, 2019.
Candace Opper (MFA ’12) won the Kore Press Memoir Award for Certain and Impossible Events (2019).
David Naimon (MFA '19) has a new partnership with Tin House, which is now a co-sponsor (with KBOO 90.7FM community radio) of David's literary podcast, Between the Covers.
Cynthia Carmina Gómez (MFA '20) published an essay, "Process and Privilege," in Oregon Humanities.
Joshua Pollock (MFA '20) has new work forthcoming in Vestiges_04: Aphasia. His translation of Salvador Elizondo's The Secret Crypt was published by Dalkey Archive in May 2019.
Erin Perry (MFA '17) and Consuelo Wise (MFA '18) moderated a panel at the 2019 Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis & Clark College. The topic is “Poetic Inquiry and the Practice of Care,” a discussion of “how poetry informs the way we imagine ourselves within care practices.”
Genevieve Hudson (MFA '13) headed to The MacDowell Colony in April 2019.
Joshua James Amberson (MFA '18) has a chapbook-length essay collection, Everyday Mythologies, from Two Plum Press. Amberson published a new essay, "Captured," in Propeller.
Jacqueline Alnes (MFA '15) has a new essay, "What Remains," in Guernica. Alnes is in the PhD program at Oklahoma State University. She published a Lost & Found essay on James Galvin’s “The Meadow” in Tin House.
Kate Jayroe (MFA '17) has a story in Issue 9 of Tammy.
LaVonne Griffin-Valade (MFA '17) has a story, "Eureka," in Clackamas Literary Review.
Karleigh Frisbie Brogan (MFA '19) received a Notable Mention in Best American Sports Writing 2019 for "Two-Piece," originally published in Water-Stone Review. Brogan published a lyric essay, "Fog or a Cloud: Hawaii," in Entropy.
Samm Saxby (BFA '18) published a short story, "It's Time," in Nailed. Saxby received the Jack W. Swanson scholarship to attend the 2019 PubWest conference. She began a publishing internship at Catapult in March 2019.
Lucie Bonvalet (MFA '21) published an essay, "Inner Rivers," in Michigan Quarterly Review. Bonvalet published a new prose piece, "Josepha," in Fugue, an essay, “On Tinnitus,” in Oregon Humanities, and a story, “Florence: A Portrait,” in Cosmonauts Avenue.
Sophia Shalmiyev (MFA ’15)’s lyric memoir, Mother Winter, was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2019.
Thea Prieto (MFA '16) and Matthew Robinson (MFA '15) are co-editors of the literary magazine The Gravity of the Thing.
Thea Prieto (MFA '16) won the Red Hen Press Novella Award for From the Caves, which will be published by Red Hen. Prieto was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her novel-in-progress was a semifinalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Her interview "The Mythology of Motherhood: Leni Zumas on Red Clocks" was recently featured at Entropy, and "A Revolution in Listening" appears in the May/June 2018 issue of Poets & Writers.
2018
Apricot Irving (MA ’04)’s memoir, A Gospel of Trees, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2018. Irving won a 2011 $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
Chelsea Bieker (MFA '12) won a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, published a story, "Cowboys and Angels," in Granta, and signed a two-book deal with Catapult for a novel, Godshot, and a story collection, Angels and Cowboys.
Eben Pindyck (MFA ’14) was a 2017-18 O’Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University. He has published pieces in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Vice.
Genevieve Hudson (MFA '13) published two books in 2018: Pretend We Live Here, a story collection (Future Tense Books), and A Little in Love with Everyone, a work of literary criticism and memoir (Fiction Advocate).
Julie Whipple (MFA ’13)’s book of nonfiction, Crash Course, was published in 2018.
Matthew Robinson (MFA '15) recently worked on Issue 7 of the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 comics series being released for free, digitally, at www.callofduty.com/comics. Robinson published his first story collection, The Horse Latitudes, with Propeller Books in October 2017. He was awarded a Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship by Literary Arts in 2016.
Jac Nelson (MFA ’16) has published poems in Fanzine (“The Sound of Music”) and Blackbox Manifold (selections from a serial poem, “EGO”).
Katrina Carrasco (MFA ’15) published her debut novel, The Best Bad Things (MCD/FSG), in November 2018.
Stephanie Wong Ken (MFA '17) published an essay at Audiofemme: "Cat Power Was My Surrogate Community in the Canadian Wild," another, "Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces," in Luma Quarterly, and a third essay, "How to Write about Your Ancestral Village," in Catapult (August 2017) and won the 2016 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize for her story "Face.”
Wendy Bourgeois (MFA ’10) published a book of essays, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It: Essays on Poetry and Life with Propeller Books.
Sarah Marshall (MFA ’13) was a Writer in Residence at the Black Mountain Institute in Fall 2018. She recently published an essay on Ted Bundy, “The End of Evil,” in The Believer.
Tyler Meese (MFA ’17) published a story in the Monster House Press pamphlet series.
Renee Soasey (BFA '19) celebrated her first print publication in the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of Oregon Humanities Magazine.
Kristin Kaye (MA ’04)'s second book, Tree Dreams, was published in 2018. Her first book, Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World, was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award.