Category: Publications

  • Pastoral Ambivalence: Recent Poetry by MAPH Grads

    Spring has returned to Chicago, and with it a bounty of new publications by MAPH alumni. Leila Wilson (AM ’03) and Gregory Lawless (AM ’04)  each have a volume of poetry out in which the authors examine their complex relationships with the landscapes of their past and present. Read on for more information in the…

  • Meet an Alum: Brian Richards

    Last week’s BEAR! (no wait BULL!) market reminded me of a conversation I had a while back with Brian Richards, Managing Editor at The Motley Fool, a financial services company based out of Alexandria, VA (just a hop over the Potomac in DC). Click here to see Brian’s last fifty articles. I asked Brian how…

  • New MAPH Writers Page

    In addition to the new MAPH website we have added a page to profile all the MAPH Alumni who are writing and their recent, current and upcoming projects. If you are a MAPH alumni who has written something please let us know what you have been up to and we will happily add it to…

  • Can you Keep up with Adam Richardson (MAPH 97)?

    MAPH Alums from the inaugural Class of 1997 have been checking in over the past week.  I’ll be talking with Adam Richardson, based in San Francisco–where he is Strategy Director for Marketing at Frog Design–tomorrow.   In what must be a copious amount of spare time, Adam blogs about design at Amphibious Blog.  This very…

  • An Elegy for Amelia Johnson

    A quick Google search for Andrew Rostan will produce a video of the 2010 MAPH alum dominating on Jeopardy! in 2007.  But his run as one of the top 10 all-time winningest contestants is almost old news as of March 8, 2011.  Today’s the day that Rostan’s anticipated (and already well reviewed) graphic novel An…

  • From the World of MAPH Authors

    A few updates courtesy of Jeff McMahon: Gregory Lawless (MAPH 04) has just published a new poem in the latest issue of Sixth Finch. Lawless is also the author of I Thought I was New Here (BlazeBox, 2009) Kiki Petrosino (MAPH 04) introduced a new limited-edition chapbook, The Dark is Here at the Association of Writers & Writing…

  • Meet an Alum: Gianna Mosser

    Gianna Mosser came to MAPH directly from the University of Miami. She graduated summa cum laude in three years and moved to Chicago in the fall of 2004. “I started MAPH not long after my 21st birthday,”she explained to me by phone. “I was actually told by some of the staff at the time: wow…

  • Contrary Magazine Honored

    Contrary Magazine was named in the Writer’s Digest list of the Top 50 Online Literary Journals in their new November-December issue. Contrary is the online literary journal founded by MAPH alumni in 20o3 and many MAPH alumni have been published in Contrary. MAPH writing advisor, Jeff McMahon, is quoted in the article. Congratulations to Contrary…

  • Kiki Petrosino featured on Poetry Foundation Reading List

    This news is a bit delayed, but is nonetheless exciting.  Kiki Petrosino, poet and 2004 MAPH graduate, published her first book of poetry, Ford Red Border, in 2009.  Fort Red Border has been reviewed in The Believer and Rain Taxi, and was shortlisted for the Forward Book of the Year Award in Poetry.  Most recently,…

  • MAPH Alumna Featured in Tableau Magazine!

    This month’s Tableau Magazine features an article by a MAPH alumna about another MAPH alumna! Emily Riemer ’09 has written a profile about Justine Nagan ’04 that discusses her work as a documentary filmmaker, focusing on her 2009 documentary Typeface, a project that involved even more MAPHers: she collaborated with Starr Marcello, Tom Bailey, and…