Author: Jeff McMahon

  • New Books by 3 MAPH Poets

    Poet Shaindel Beers (MAPH 00) has signed a two-book deal for poetry collections with Salt Publishing in London. Her first collection, A Brief History of Time, will be released in February at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in Chicago. She also hosts a weekly radio show, Translated By, focusing…

  • Book Reviews. Book Reviews?

    There are seven book reviews in the new issue of Contrary magazine, and five are written by former maphers: Contrary Reviews Would you like to join them? If so, please send the editor, Yours Truly, a note to get the details: chicago[at]contrarymagazine[dot]com. Contrary‘s readership seemed to peak with just over 210,000 page views over three…

  • New Poems by a Mapher

    Shaindel Beers (’00) has two new poems in the latest issue of Thieves Jargon, and like all of Shaindel’s work, they’re terrific: http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=976 Shaindel is a professor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. Please send me news of your publications, or post them here. Eventually I’d like to compile them in…

  • Adventures in the Aftermaph: Panama

    Laura Browning (05), who studied writing in MAPH, was recently hired as a senior conservation writer by The Nature Conservancy, which promptly shipped her off to Panama. From the edge of the jungle she writes: I got up this morning at 5:45, did yoga on my sleeping porch, and then met the rest of the…