Alumni News

Jessica Benjamin ('04) was an essay, finalist for the Hunger Mountain Review Creative Nonfiction Contest (publication in journal); Summer 2008 working as a grant writer with Story Corps(NPR).  Jessica is graduating with an MFA from Mankato State University (Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award, Mankato 2008).

Jan Best('05) was accepted in PhD. program (with a creative dissertation) at SUNY Binghamton.

Harmony Brush ('07) is the weekly food columnist for The Father Life.

Tony Caputa ('91) was accepted in the MFA program at Vermont College for fiction.

Jon Chopan('05 minor) essay published in "Other Lives" in Flashquake.  He is graduating from Ohio State with an MFA.

Carolina Depalma ('05) has poems forthcoming in Soundings East, Saranrac Review and The Redivider.  She is graduating from The New School with an MFA.

Derek Holst ('07), essay published in Prick of the Spindle.

Ryan Garney ('06) has been accepted into Carnegie Mellon's MFA program in screenwriting and playwriting. 

Jan Janisch ('07) nonfiction editor of So to Speak (out of George Mason University; essay published in Prick of the Spindle and Fringe Magazine.

Emily King('05) works as the Alumni and Development Communications Assistant at SUNY Oswego.

Linda Loomis ('97) recently received the 2007 Creative Writing Alumni Award for work in community journalism.

Christina Matthews ('06) was a poetry editor of Arts & Letters (national journal of the arts) from 2006 to 2007.

Brandon Maxam ('04) had an essay published in the Clapboard House Review.

Andrew McIlwraith ('99) wrote a screenplay that was selected by a local grant-sponsored program, Movies Without Pictures, to receive a staged reading by professional actors in Saratoga.  The reading of "The Short Life of Barry Cummings" took place at the Saratoga Arts Center.

Kenneth Nichols ('04) was accepted in the MFA program at Ohio State University for fiction.  He was the winner of the Ohio Arts & Letters Award, performed at Curtain Players 6th Annual Playwright Festival.

Kelly Palka ('06) is graduating with an MFA from Vermont College.

Theresa Peck ('06) has been accepted into SUNY -- Buffalo graduate program.

David Russell ('05) has two young adult novels forthcoming from Penguin (2009, 2010).

Kristina Rusho ('03) is writing a documentary for the Fort Drum archeology department.  The film will be used across the states and internationally.

Laura Taylor ('95) joined the University of North Carolina Asheville's Literature and Language Department as an assistant professor, specializing in fiction writing.

Patrick Vittik ('07) had a story published in Monkeybicycle.

Brooke Wacha ('07) had an essay published in the Boston Globe.

K.C. Wolf ('04) recently graduated from the MFA program at Ohio State University for creative nonfiction.

Creative Writing Alumni Award

2011

Jon Chopan (M.A.'06, BA '04)

2010

Jeff Gardiner ('03)

2006

Linda Loomis ('97)

2004

Andrew Miano ('95)

2002

Diana Abu-Jaber ('80)

2001

Christene Barberich ('91)
Leigh Flayton ('91)

2000

John J. Garrett ('96)
Christian Langworthy ('90)
Robert O'Connor ('82)

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