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Professor Shena McAuliffe published a short essay "Tiny Hairs," in Hayden's Ferry Review, 78 (2026).

Professor Jillmarie Murphy's four-volume book project Women and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1925 published by Routledge on April 30, 2026, see news.

Naomi Nayor '28 published a poem called "The Rocking Chair is Still" in Green Street Review, May 4, 2026.

Nick Soluri '20 published "At the Punk Bar in Asheville" in Four Way Review, vol. 35, Apr. 20, 2026.

Other current publications include:

Faculty:

Professor Bunkong Tuon published "Chanda Says; and Dropping off Chanda at Nursery School," Research and Reflections on Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, ed. Wayne Wright, et. al., Purdue UP, 2026 (print); "My Friend Said" and "Emergency" in Meat for Tea, 20.1, Spring 2026 (print); "Driving Home after Christmas with the In-laws" and "Year of the Snake" appeared in One Art on Dec. 26, 2025.

Professor Jordan Smith published an essay, "Liberty," and two poems, "In the Pines" and "Threadbare" in Live Encounters, February, 2026. On Feb. 7, the poem "Tattoo" appeared in Vox Populi. Smith has a guest editorial essay, "Listening" in Live Encounters' Nov-Dec 2025 issue.

Professor Claire Bracken, published “Read a Dirty Book: James Joyce, Samuel Steward and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion,” with Laurel Harris and Marissa Stinson, in Modernism/Modernity, Nov. 2025.

Alumni --

Matt Futterman '91, sports journalist, will publish THE CRUELEST GAME: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis with Penguin Random House on Aug. 4, 2026 (may be pre-ordered).

Joanna Doxey '03, professor of creative writing at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, published the poetry collection Unfruitful, with Middle Creek Publishing, March 2026.

Jamaluddin Aram '17's essay collection, The Blood of Things: A Love Letter to Afghanistan will be published by McClelland & Stewart (Canada) Sept. 15, 2026 (may be pre-ordered). Aram's prize-winning debut novel is Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday (Scribner-Canada, 2023).

Aja Schiller '25 has a short story, "Pigs," is available as a chapbook from Bottlecap Press, CA.

Patrick Mulready '25 published a story (from his honors thesis collection), "The Work Capacity of Young Adults" in Short Vine Literary Journal (U Cincinnati), Spring 2025, pp. 27-33.

Current creative writers --

Nevaeh Williams '28, a student in EGL295: Creative Nonfiction Workshop, had an essay accepted for publication in The Oakland Arts Review, an undergraduate literary journal at Oakland University in Michigan. It appears in Vol. 11, their spring 2026 issue.

Naomi Nayor '28 published a poem called "The Rocking Chair is Still" in Green Street Review, May 4, 2026. Naomi formerly published a poem entitled "-9" in Oakland Arts Review, vol. 10, Spring 2025, p. 29.

Benjamin Stern '26 wrote an original one-act play in ATH 320: Playwriting, "The Trees Have Names Too," which won the Judith Barlow Prize.

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