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  • MAPH Alumni Reading on May 13

    Published this month by Random House/Delacorte, Anna Jarzab’s “All Unquiet Things” was once a MAPH Thesis: Winner of a First Novel Contest from Chiasmus Press, Kate Zambreno’s “O Fallen Angel” will be published in March: Jarzab (MAPH 07) and Zambreno (MAPH 02) will be here May 13 to read their work. Both novels reached bookstores…

  • Looking for something to do tonight? Check out Tuesday Funk

    If you subscribe to the Irony list (and if you don’t, why not?), you may have already seen this, but just in case some of you don’t, I’m posting it anyway. Tuesday Funk is a monthly reading series that features fiction, essays, and poetry, and has a strong MAPH connection. Not only is one of…

  • Remember Social Hour?

    Hello Maph Alums! Fall is upon us.  The leaves are starting to turn, the nights are growing cooler, and a new group of MAPHers are en route to the University of Chicago’s stoney gates.  For them, this means the year of intense and rigorous academics you know so well.  And for you?  Social hour! We’ll…

  • MAPHer Published in Boston Review

    Kristin Fitzsimmons (’08), who wrote a collection of poetry for her MAPH thesis, has been published by the Boston Review.  The Review published select portions of her thesis in its current edition, which is available online and at the Co-Op/57th St. Books.

  • More Hot Press for Poet and MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers

    Shaindel Beers (MAPH ’00) is getting a lot of attention for her first collection of poetry, “A Brief History of Time,” released last month from Salt Press.  Check out the Chicago Weekly piece on Beers here.

  • MAPH alumni speak at writers conference

    Last week, alumni poets gathered in Classics 110 to read to a room of current and former students, through the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. The four poets who spoke included two MAPH’ers, Shaindel Beers ’00 and Kiki Petrosino ’04, both reading from forthcoming or recently published collections. Check out The University of Chicago Magazine’s…

  • MAPH alum’s poetry published in The New Yorker

    Michael Robbins’ poem “Alien vs. Predator” appears in the January 12 New Yorker this winter. Read an interview with Robbins, currently a PhD student in UofC’s English department.

  • 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…

  • How I Sold My Thesis

    Our alum Anna Jarzab, AM ’07, has just sold her thesis to a publisher, and she has graciously taken the time to share a little bit of that adventure with us. -Braden Even though I knew I wanted to write a creative thesis for MAPH, I never intended to write the project I ended up…

  • Keeping us in the Light

    MAPH Alum Joel Witmer (’07) is up and at ’em again with his newest blog The Dark Room, a blog that discusses and reviews movies and television shows. You may remember Joel’s past fame with his Ohio sports based blog, The Disappointment Zone, and its famed appearance in the Wall Street Journal Online. This time…