Tag: Writing

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • post-MAPH publication

    Recent MAPH graduate Hilary Dobel has published a poem in the latest issue of Contrary Magazine, an online journal that was founded by MAPH students and alumni, but now operates independently. In addition to Hilary’s excellent poem, the current issue is full of good things to read, including short fiction and reviews, as well as…

  • 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…

  • graficionada: a blog about food and other nice things

    Another MAPH alum, Jeanelle Hayner (MAPH ’07), has joined the blogoshpere with a blog for budding and hardcore foodies. If you’re into food (and aren’t we all in our way?) stop by and check it out.

  • 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.