Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Jennifer Militello! The Pact launches today from Tupelo Press. “What a beautiful book of songs, pacts, spells, love poems, chants, pledges, odes! Such lyric abandon here, and also such deep lyric knowlede. Knowlede of what? you might ask. Of how… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Scott Owens! Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming is now available from Red Hawk Publications.
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Ösel Plante! Waveland is now available from Black Lawrence Press. Poetry. The word ‘lush’ doesn’t even begin to describe these poems. And boy, do we need lushness, especially these days. The world empties us out, and only poetry can… Continue reading…
Fiction alumna and former Greensboro Review fiction editor Rose Himber Howse has been awarded a prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Many congratulations and best wishes from Greensboro, Rose! Read an interview from the GR archives with Rose here. Rose Himber Howse is a queer writer from North Carolina… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Leigh Anne Couch! Every Lash, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, launches today from the University of North Texas Press.
Dr. Matthew Mullins (PhD) book Enjoying The Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures was recently released! The English Department Faculty would like to extend their congratulations to Matt and all his accomplishments! #UNCGEnglish Dr. Mullins remembers about UNCG, “My time in the English Department at UNCG was formative for me… Continue reading…
Alum Spotlight: David Watson (PhD) defended his dissertation “Solving the Crime: Searching for Truth in Post-1900 Detective Novels” in October 2019. His thesis will be published in a revised form by Macmillan Palgrave, most likely next year. The tentative title is “Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction” and it… Continue reading…
Ruth Dickey, alumna of our MFA Writing Program in poetry, has been named the new Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Congratulations from all of us at UNCG! “My whole career has been working at the intersection of two questions: how do we build just, vibrant communities, and how… Continue reading…
Alumni Spotlight: Ruth Dickey (MFA ’04) has been named as the new Executive Director of the National Book Foundation! Congratulations! #UNCGEnglish #UNCGWay Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/books/national-book-foundation-ruth-dickey.html
Spotlight: English Education Alum Karen Phillips is the owner of CORE Gymnastics in Greensboro! She got her licensure as a Secondary English Teacher, and eventually used the skills she learned to open and run a successful business! #UNCGEnglish
