Alumni News

Jennifer Barber, '78
Jennifer Barber's Rigging the Wind won Kore Press's First Book Award in 2002 and was published in June of 2003.  Barber founded Salamander, Inc., a nonprofit literary organization, in 1992.

Jocelyn Bartkevicius, '79
Jocelyn Bartkevicius is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Central Florida.  Among her awards are the Annie Dillard Award in the Essay, The Missouri Review Editors' Award in the Essay, and The Iowa Woman Award in the Essay.

John Campbell '09

John Campbell has just published "Madrigal," one of the poems from his honors thesis. You can read it at www.linebreak.org.


Stephanie Doyon, '93
Stephanie Doyon is the author of Had to Be You: Love Stories, The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole, and a series of novels for young adults.

Jane Eklund, '81
Jane Eklund has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts for poetry and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for fiction.  Her poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the North American Review, and other magazines.  She works as an editor at a weekly newspaper in Peterborough, NH. 

Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, '82
Fidel Fajardo-Acosta is Associate Professor in the English Department and Webmaster of the World Literature Program at Creighton University.

Erika Mailman, '91
Erika Mailman's The Witch's Trinity will be released from Random House in the fall of 2007.  Woman of Ill Fame is also forthcoming.

Alexandria Peary '92
Born in Dover, NH, Alexandria Peary publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, and scholarly articles and is currently completing her second manuscript of poems. Her first book of poetry, Fall Foliage Called Bathers & Dancers, was published by Backwaters Press in 2008. Her creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including The Gettysburg Review, jubilat, Poets & Writers Magazine, New Hampshire Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Fence, Pleiades, Verse, Fine Madness, The Spoon River Review, and Crazyhorse. Her poetry has received a Pushcart nomination and has been awarded the Joseph Langland Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has a MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa ('94) and a second MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst ('99). She is finishing her doctorate at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She has presented on writing at venue including the Conference of College Composition and Communication and the New Hampshire Writer's Project. Since 2000, she has served as the Writing Program Director and a professor at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH, where she designs and teaches courses on poetry, composition, writing-for-publication, strategies for overcoming writer's blocks, and creative nonfiction.

 


David Roderick, '92
David Roderick won the APR/Honickman Prize with Blue Colonial, his first book.  He is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.