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Rachel Aydt

Rachel Aydt is a writer and part-time Assistant Professor at the New School University in New York City. She spent many years working as an editor and research director in national consumer magazines, including American Heritage Magazine , YM , Cosmopolitan , and CosmoGirl . She’s written personal essays that have appeared in publications that include the Huffington Post , the New York Times ’ Motherlode blog, The New York Observer , Parents , Redbook , The New York Post , New York Metro Parents , New Mexico magazine, and CosmoGirl . Her literary essays and fiction have appeared online in The White Review , Broad Street Journal , and the University of Dublin’s HCE Review , Breadcrumbs , and is forthcoming in Post Road . She’s written culture pieces for Time Magazine , Photo District News , Inked , Publishing Perspectives , and Reader’s Digest . She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College where she was a Graduate Fellow. While there, she served as Nonfiction Editor of their literary journal, Lumina . She developed and taught a class for the Barnard Pre-college Program called “In Their Footsteps” about finding creative inspiration in an urban landscape, which she’s adapted for an ongoing Freshman seminar at The New School University. She’s the recipient of a grant for creative work from the New School University, and of a fellowship to attend Colgate Writer’s Conference and Kettle Pond Conference. She tweets at @Rachelrooo .

Nkosi Ife Bandele tells stories. He writes for periodicals, stage, TV, and film.  His novels  The Ape is Dead!  (2016),  The Beast  (2017), and  Scott Free  (2019) are published by Crimson Cloak Publishing. His most recent short fiction appears in  Akashic Books’ Terrible Twosdays series . He is a longtime teacher in the first-year writing program, offering the wildly popular classes Too Cool for School and What’s Love Got to do with It?. A detailed description of his teaching can be found on his  Lang Faculty Page  and more information about his writing is available on his  Facebook fan page .

Brie Bouslaugh

Brie Bouslaugh obtained her BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College and went on to receive her Master’s degree from Columbia’s School of the Arts Creative Writing Program. After graduating she was awarded a teaching fellowship with Columbia’s first-year writing program and has spent the past seven years working at colleges around New York (including The Fashion Institute of Technology, Medgar Evers College, and the past four years at The New School). Having spent many years working in first-year writing programs, she believes that beginning one’s college career with a strong foundation in communication, both written and spoken, and some rigorous practice in critical thinking is essential no matter the path a student takes. In her courses she is interested in the discourse around contemporary culture, how we use language, and sometimes sports. She lives in Brooklyn with her three dogs.

Olga Breydo

Olga Breydo   received her M.Arch   from The Bartlett School of Architecture in London and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in  Slice Magazine, Joyland Magazine, The Cossack Review, Bodega Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and Cagibi Literary Journal . Her short story “Not a Star” was a finalist in the 2018 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize and her short story “Cherry Preserves” was a finalist in the 2018 New Letters Prize for Fiction. Her critical essay “Nabokov’s Space-time” was longlisted for the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Prize, and her short stories “Torre Flavia”   and “Prelude” were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her writing and photography can be found at  olgabreydo.com .

Christen Clifford

Christen   Clifford is  a writer, performer and part time lecturer at The New School, where she teaches Contemporary Feminisms, What  is  Rape Culture? and The Body in Performance Art.

Bret Gladstone

Bret Gladstone is the editorial director of Graver Goods Press and the founder of its Impracticum —an independent creative writing program grounded in community service. He received his MFA from Columbia University, where he has also taught undergraduate workshops. His music journalism has been published by  Rolling Stone ,  Pitchfork ,  The Village Voice ,  Spin , and  The Associated Press , and his fiction was awarded a fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Prior to teaching at The New School, NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Medgar Evers College, he worked with rescue dogs and future service dogs. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Jessica Gross

Jessica Gross’s  debut novel,  Hysteria , was published by The Unnamed Press in fall 2020. Her essays, criticism, and articles have appeared in  The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine,  and  The Paris Review Daily , among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School, a Master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from New York University and a Bachelor’s in anthropology from Princeton University.

Shahnaz Habib

Shahnaz  Habib  is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her translation of Malayali writer Benyamin’s  Jasmine Days  won the 2018 JCB Prize for Indian Literature.  Shahnaz ‘s fiction, essays and criticism have been published in Agni , Creative Nonfiction , Brevity , The Guardian , the New Yorker online, Harvard Divinity Bulletin , The Caravan , Afar , and other magazines.

Haley Hach has been teaching in the First-Year Writing Program for seven years. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has a Master’s in English from Portland State University. She’s published stories in Narrative Magazine , Santa Monica Review , The Saint Anne’s Review , CutBank, Able Muse , 5Chapters , Raritan and others. She’s a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, finalist for the American Short Fiction contest and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She’s a fellow at Stony Brook’s BookEnd mentorship program, where she is working on a novel. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters and a bunch of dogs.

Marwa Helal

Marwa Helal is the author of Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019) and winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest. She is also the author of the chapbook I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2017) and has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Liz Latty is a writer and educator whose work has been featured in The Rumpus , The Establishment , HuffPost , The Feminist Wire , The Wayne Literary Review , Jupiter 88 , HOLD: A Journal , and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Split (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012) and has received fellowships and grants from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Poets & Writers Magazine , and Vermont Studio Center, among others. Her writing was included as a Notable Essay selection in Best American Essays 2017 and nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards from the San Francisco Foundation. Liz holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Brooklyn.

Jonathan Liebson

Jonathan Liebson is a longtime teacher of first-year writing and an academic adviser at Eugene Lang. His courses focus on short fiction, narrative or personal essays, and issues in contemporary culture. A longer description of his teaching and writing philosophy can be found on his  Lang Faculty Page . His most recent work appears in  The Atlantic ,  The Washington Post Sunday Book World ,  The Texas Observer , and  The Chicago Review of Books , and his previous essays, book reviews, and short stories have appeared in  Time Out New York, The Georgia Review ,  American Book Review, Meridian, Passages North,  and  Harvard Review , and in the anthology  Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer  (Random House). His writing (and photography) can be found at   jonathanliebson.com .

Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla   is a poet, scholar, translator, lecturer, painter, photographer, and author. His 500-page co-authored volume Cooking with the Muse   (Tupelo Press, 2016), includes hundreds of original poems, recipes, essays, and color photos. Acclaim for his other books includes an SFASU Press Prize for The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat ; the Bordighera/CUNY Poetry Prize for Forty Floors from Yesterday ; the Grolier Poetry Prize for Later on Aiaia ; a Van Rensselaer award, selected by Kenneth Koch, and other honors. He has also translated books by Pablo Neruda and others. Massimilla has recent work in hundreds of publications from AGNI to Verse Daily . He holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and teaches at Columbia University and The New School. He has exhibited his paintings in many cities, been interviewed on radio and television, presented papers at numerous conferences, and performed his work at venues ranging from The Natural Gourmet to Carnegie Hall.

Kyle McCarthy

Kyle McCarthy   is the author of  Everyone Knows How Much I Love You , published by Ballantine Books. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories, American Short Fiction, the Harvard Review, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.

Tara Menon focuses, in her research and teaching, on problems of religion, experience, and secularization in the European and Indian traditions. She has taught at Cooper Union and Ashoka University and has held fellowships at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

M./Megan Milks

Megan Milks has taught first-year writing, creative writing, literature, and queer, transgender, and (a)sexuality studies at the college level for more than ten years. Their first novel, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, is forthcoming from Feminist Press in 2021, followed by a revised second edition of their first story collection, now titled Slug and Other Stories (originally published as Kill Marguerite and Other Stories, the collection won the 2015 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Fiction and was named a Lambda Literary Award finalist). Megan is the recipient of the 2019 Lotos Foundation Prize in Fiction Writing. They have published four chapbooks, most recently Kicking the Baby and The Feels, an exploration of fan fiction and affect, and a short nonfiction book Remember the Internet: Tori Amos Bootleg Webring , is forthcoming from Instar Books. Their critical writing has been published in Bookforum,  4Columns, Los Angeles Book Review, and The New Inquiry, among other venues. Their work as editor includes We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Art from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press, 2021), The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, 2011-2013 (Northwestern UP, 2015), and Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014).

Miller Oberman

Miller Oberman completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Connecticut in 2017, where he studied trans-temporal poetics, translation theory, and Old English poetry. His first book of poems and translations, The Unstill Ones , came out with Princeton University Press in 2017. Miller has recent poems and translations in The London Review of Books ,  Poetry , and the Boston Review . Miller is also interested in Queer Theory, Science Fiction, and lyric poetry, and teaches poetry workshops with Brooklyn Poets .

Dianca Potts

Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School and her MA in English in addition to her MA in Humanities from Arcadia University. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominee and a Best Small Fictions finalist for 2016. She is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop participant, a VONA Voices alum, the former prose editor of LIT Magazine, and the former online editor of Well-Read Black Girl. Her words have been featured in Glamour , The Village Voice , Vice , Shondaland , and elsewhere. Her memoir, Planning for the Apocalypse , is forthcoming from 37 Ink / Simon and Schuster. She currently lives and writes in Brooklyn.

David Palmer

David Palmer is a part-time Assistant Professor of writing at the New School University in New York City. He also teaches and tutors writing at New York University in Liberal Studies and the Opportunities Program. A queer intellectual and literary historian by training with a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David’s written work has been published in  The Journal of the History of Sexuality ,  Trans-scripts,  and  The Committee on LGBT History Newsletter.  He also has curated a class project on LGBTQ history in North Carolina, which was featured in  outhistory.org .  

Rebecca Reilly

Rebecca Reilly teaches creative writing at The New School and is a doctoral candidate at The C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center where she is writing a dissertation on repetition in the poetry of Gertrude Stein. She taught for a number of years at The University of Paris, Nanterre, and has taught at The New School, Parsons Paris, as well as Humboldt University in Berlin. Her first book, Repetition , was published by Four Way Books in 2015. The book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was chosen by author Maggie Nelson for a Publishers Weekly round-up of the top books of 2015, as well as reviewed by Nelson as one of six “nonfiction writers to watch” in Vela . It was reviewed in The Boston Globe and selected by poet and author Susan Wheeler as one of her favorite books of 2015 in Princeton Weekly .

Rollo Romig

Rollo Romig writes and has written in a wide range of customizable shapes and sizes, including theater criticism for The New Yorker magazine, feature stories about India for The New York Times Magazine , general-assignment news reporting for The Cambodia Daily , and essays about religion, culture, Detroit, and other assorted topics for other assorted publications. He also teaches journalism at New York University.

Helen Betya Rubinstein

Helen Betya Rubinstein ‘s essays and fiction have appeared in  The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review Daily , and elsewhere, and her opinions in  The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jewish Currents, LA Review of Books , and  The New York Times . She holds M.F.A. degrees in fiction and nonfiction, from Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa, respectively, and has enjoyed working with college writers since 2008.

Bureen Ruffin

Bureen Ruffin is a writer and teacher who holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School. She has taught literature, creative writing, and English composition since 2011. Her current courses focus on cultural criticism, personal essay, and memoir. As a writer, her work is fueled by an interest in memory, its role in forming identity, and how one writes that identity. Most recently, she founded a student writers’ workshop for students engaging with race and ethnicity in their work and was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award at Pace University. Her work has most recently appeared in Of Note magazine. She is at work on her first book.

A.W. Strouse

A.W. Strouse is a medievalist and a poet.

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Meet the new faculty in Creative Writing 2023

January 24, 2023

The School of Creative Writing is welcoming several new faculty members this year. “On behalf of the entire School, I’m pleased to extend a warm welcome to our incoming faculty members. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive learning environment for our students, and our new faculty are committed to supporting this goal,” says Director Annabel Lyon. Anosh Irani and Chelene Knight joined Creative Writing in January, and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Austen Osworth will join the School in July.

Anosh Irani Assistant Professor in Fiction

What is your area of teaching?

I have previously taught in the School of Creative Writing as an adjunct professor in the areas of fiction and playwriting. My focus as an assistant professor is in the area of fiction.

Why are you excited about being at UBC?

I feel very privileged to be part of such an accomplished faculty, and I am sure that my time at UBC will make me a better writer and teacher.

Chelene Knight Adjunct Professor Poetry and Optional Residency

My area of teaching is poetry and my approach focuses heavily on using poetry as a catalyst for creating new conversations through the lens of building a reimagined future in literature. At present, I am looking back and investigating the motivations of some of our most prolific Black female poets to explore history, love, activism, and grief in hopes of pulling from the past to create new and different futures.

  Why are you excited about being at UBC?

I look forward to connecting with students and exploring all the beautiful possibilities poetry can bring. I value meeting students where they are at, and I am excited about UBC’s asynchronous course format which I think will help create the flexibility that students today need in order to thrive.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Assistant Professor in Creative Nonfiction

I write and teach creative nonfiction, with a focus on what the genre’s capaciousness allows us to evoke about the multiply narrated layers of life—which is to say that I write stories about the way we make and live stories. I’m particularly interested in work that hybridizes or transcends genre, like lyric nonfiction that uses juxtaposition and the space of silence in much the way poetry does, or nonfiction that includes and acknowledges wish, dream, and imagination. Much of my work also has a political or social justice impetus behind it. My first book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir , combined an investigation into a 1992 death penalty case with a memoir about my family to get at story-making about the past in both the American criminal justice system and individual lives. I’m currently at work on my second, Both and Neither , which is a transgender and trans-genre examination of life beyond the binary.

I’m deeply excited to be joining such an expansive, vibrant school of creative writing—the genre possibilities at UBC really are unparalleled, and I am so looking forward to all the conversations with students and colleagues to come! Not to mention all the conversations and collaborations across the larger university. It also means a lot to me to be joining a university with such a strong commitment to diversity, access, and social justice. Great work is happening at UBC and I’m eager to be a part of it. I deeply believe that everything good, ambitious, and paradigm-shifting starts with learning and connection. And then, of course, there’s the area’s stunning natural beauty! I find I think and breathe better in view of the mountains and the water—something about a reminder of the scale of even our most absorbing human stories—and I am excited to get out the door and explore all British Columbia has to offer.

A.E. Osworth Fiction Lecturer

I’m going to be teaching both traditional and interactive fiction, as well as new media. My favorite ways to make work use many kinds of processes stitched together, often borrowing tools and techniques from digital space for use in my novels. I’m currently working on collaborating with artificial intelligence in the writing of my next book.

I’m excited to be at UBC for so many reasons, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll choose one: the School of Creative Writing is such an innovator in the pedagogy of fiction. I’m excited to join an amazing group of people who not only think deeply about their own work and publishing, but who are wholly committed to thinking as deeply about constructing learning spaces that truly teach creativity.

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2021 Creative Writing Faculty and Alumni Publications

The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2021 alumni and faculty book publications. This year,  15 books have been published by alumni  of the MFA in Creative Writing Program,  1 book has been published by alumni  of the BPATS program, and  3 books have been published by faculty  of the Creative Writing Program.

The list includes publications from the “Big Four” publishing houses, university presses, and independent publishers. All four genres of study offered by the MFA in Creative Writing Program are represented: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children and young adults.

Congratulations to all!  *If you published a book this year or know of a fellow MFA alumni who published a book, please let us know by emailing  [email protected]  and we will add you to this list.

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Tiffany Babb, MFA ’20, A List of Things I’ve Lost , Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

Janet Beard, MFA ’05, The Ballad of Laurel Springs , Gallery Books

Keisha Bush, MFA ‘15, No Heaven For Good Boys , St. Martin’s Press

Mary Dixie Carter, MFA ‘17, The Photographer, Macmillan Publishers 

Katherine Dykstra, MFA ‘15, WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: ON THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN GIRL , was published by W.W. Norton

Safia Elhillo, MFA ’15, Home Is Not a Country , Make Me a World

Ellen Hagen, MFA ‘03, Reckless, Glorious, Girl, Bloomsbury, Blooming Fiascoes , Northwestern University Press

Zakiya Harris, MFA ‘16, The Other Black Girl , Simon & Schuster

S.N. Kirby, MFA ’17, Lunatiques , Blue Jade Press

Janae Marks, WFCYA ‘10, A SOFT PLACE TO LAND , with HarperCollins Katherine Tegen Books

Cynthia Manick, MFA ‘07, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black comics, and Super Hero Poetry , Blair Publishing

AE Osworth, MFA ‘16, We Are Watching Eliza Bright , Grand Central Publishing (an imprint of Hachette)

Julia Rubin, MFA ’17, Trouble Girls , Wednesday Book/ Macmillan

NIcole Santalucia, MFA ‘08, The Book of Dirt , NYQ Books

Rainsford Stauffer, BPATS ’17, An Ordinary Age , Harper Perrenial

Masha Tupitsyn, MFA ‘19, Time Tells Time , Archway Editions (an imprint of Simon & Schuster)

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Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun , Penguin Random House

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Tom D'Angelo

Tom D'Angelo was born in the now fashionable and expressive neighborhood of Astoria, NY. The first of his family to attend college, he received his master's degree in English with a concentration in creative writing from Queens College/CUNY. In addition to a collection of his original poetry, his master's thesis included his verse translations of selected biblical narratives from the Book of Genesis. Since joining the English faculty at NCC in 2000, Professor D'Angelo has worked in the Writing Center and has taught courses in Mythology and Folklore, Film and Literature, and Creative Writing. His current projects include a series of creative non-fiction essays on his formative years in Queens, NY and poems "assembled" from found words and phrases from The New York Times.

Sabrina Davis

Sabrina Davis first joined the English Department at Nassau Community College in 2009 and has served as the Creative Writing Program Coordinator since the program’s inaugural semester in fall of 2016. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Saint Louis University, an M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University, and a B.A. in History from CUNY Baruch College. Born and raised on Long Island, she currently resides in Lloyd Harbor, NY with her husband and two children.

Jared Harél

Jared Harél is the author of Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018). He's been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review, as well as the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Tin House, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily and 32 Poems, and his narrative long-poem, The Body Double, was published by Brooklyn Arts Press (2012). Harél teaches writing at Nassau Community College, where he is a Faculty Advisor for the Creative Writing Club and LUNA. He lives with his wife and two kids in Queens, NY.

Amy King's book, The Missing Museum , is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Of I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press), John Ashbery describes Amy King's poems as bringing "abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living." Safe was one of Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2011. King joins the ranks of Ann Patchett, Eleanor Roosevelt & Rachel Carson as the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women's National Book Association). She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change . She also co-edited the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015 , and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

Mary Lannon

Mary Lannon is a 2020 recipient of a New Work Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts, a 2021 City Artist Corp grant recipient, and a finalist in the 2019 Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta Contest. Her short stories have been published at Story, New World Writing(ed. Frederick Bartheleme),Woven Tale Press (prose editor DeWitt Henry) and The Write Launch. Her poetry appears at Queen Mob's Teahouse and at Poets of Queens and her play was shortlisted for the Bechdel Group's play-in-progress reading series.  She belongs to the NYC Irish American Writers and Artists group and runs a reading series in Kew Gardens, NY where she lives. At work on a second novel, she is looking for a publishing home for her first novel. She has taught at NCC since 2007.

Richard Jeffrey Newman

Richard Jeffrey Newman has been a member of Nassau Community College’s English Department since 1989. His books of poetry include  Words for What Those Men Have Done   (Guernica Editions 2017), and  The Silence of Men   (CavanKerry Press 2006) .  He has also co-translated four books of classical Persian poetry, most recently  The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahameh  (Junction Press 2011). Professor Newman has been curating the  First Tuesdays  reading series in Jackson Heights, NY since 2012.

Joe Pilaro studied theater and fiction writing at the University of Vermont. He has directed many plays and musicals, and adapted and directed The Emperor's New Clothes and The LIttle Princ e for a touring children theater company in Vermont. He has worked as the Program Coordinator of Columbia University's Film School and taught writing at Howard University. In the late nineties, What Your Hairdresser Knows , a play he co-wrote with his writing partner Joe Gorrie, was produced by the Homegrown Theater in New York. They relocated to Los Angeles and wrote television spec scripts, an animated series, and feature film scripts. He has taught creative writing at West Los Angeles College and has taught at NCC since 2011.

Christina M. Rau

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry collection  What We Do To Make Us Whole  (Alien Buddha Press 2021) ,  the Elgin Award-winning  Liberating The Astronauts  (Aqueduct Press 2017), and the chapbooks  WakeBreatheMove  and  For The Girls, I . She’s served as Poet in Residence for both Oceanside Library NY and Cedarmere and was named Long Island Poet of the Year by Walt Whitman Birthplace. Her writing has appeared in various literary journals, including her favorites  fillingStation  and  The Disappointed Housewife  as well as on the airwaves for  Destinies  on WSUB. In her non-writing life, when she’s not teaching yoga or offering reiki, she’s watching the Game Show Network.  www.christinamrau.com

Matthew Rotando

Matthew Rotando has published poems and/or illustrated poems in various places, including Eoagh, Wavelength, BigCityLit.com, Drunken Boat, Everyday Genius, Matador, Oddball Magazine, Acta Victoriana, Green Linden, and Politics Slash Letters magazines. He has written two poetry books, The Comeback's Exoskeleton (2008) and Hail (2020), published by Upset Press, a division of the University of Nebraska Press. He has a B.A. in English Literature from Duke University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from CUNY Brooklyn College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Arizona. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka, attached to the University of Peradeniya, in Kandy, where he wrote a manuscript of poems connected to his time living in monasteries and accompanying monks on walking pilgrimages around the island. While there he also taught creative writing workshops and edited and published Slippage, a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry written by Sri Lankans, under the pseudonym M. Abayaratana. He has also taught poetry and surrealist writing workshops at the University of Arizona Poetry Center as a visiting poet. His poem “Story of Learning” won the University of Arizona Academy of American Poets award, judged by Srikanth Reddy. He is a winner of the Carol Farber Honor’s Program Excellence in Teaching Award at NCC. 

Gina Sipley

Gina Sipley  serves as Coordinator for the A.A. in English degree program and co-advises the Creative Writing Club and its award-winning journal,  Luna . She writes about education and technology for  New Media + Society, Al Jazeera America, Newsday,  English Journal, Mic,   and  EdSurge.  Her book,  Just Here For The Comments,   is forthcoming from Bristol University Press. When writing poetry, she has published under Gina Marie Liotta for  New York Quarterly,  The Sierra Nevada Review, The Paterson Literary Review, LIPS,   The Healing Muse,  and others .   Her manuscript,  Skin,  was a semifinalist for the Laura Boss Poetry Prize from  New York Quarterly Press . Her narrative poetry explores 20 th  and 21 st  century Long Island life and frequently includes themes related to dis/Ability studies and education. A first-generation college graduate, she holds a Ph.D. in digital Literacy Studies from Hofstra University, a Master's in English from Syracuse University, a Master's in Education from the University of Oregon, and a Bachelor's in English and Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton. 

Beth Beatrice Smith

Beth Beatrice Smith holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School. She is a former assistant editor for Essence Magazine and the former managing editor of Blackballot.com. Professor Smith has served as chair of the Creative Writing Project and is the current fiction editor for The Nassau Review .  She joined the faculty English department in 2006. 

Pramila Venkateswaran

Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) and co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002) Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008), Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009), Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Thirteen Days to Let Go (Aldrich Press, 2015), and Slow Ripening (Local Gems, 2016). An award winning poet, she teaches English and Women's Studies at Nassau Community College, New York. Her blogs include www.poetrybazaar.blogspot.com and www.womeninandbeyond.org. Author of numerous essays on poetics as well as creative non-fiction, she is also the 2011 Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year

Tim Wood is the author of two books of poems, Otherwise Known as Home (BlazeVOX, 2010) and Notched Sunsets (Atelos, 2016). He is also co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2008). His critical work on poetry and poetics can be found at ActionYes.org and Jacket2.org as well as in Convolution and Leviathan ; his poetry reviews can be found at the Colorado Review , The Iowa Review , and the Boston Review . In 2017, his poem "Marginalia Inter Alia" won The Elizabeth Curry Poetry Contest, and his poem "Shiki" was first-runner up for RHINO magazine's Founder's Award. He also had a poem included in Black Lives Have Always Mattered , A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives . Ed. Abiodun Oyewole, one of the original Last Poets. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Poetry from The Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 2013 to 2014, where he taught courses on hip-hop as literature and on American poetry. He is currently a professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York.

John Dermot Woods

John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of several comics and works of fiction, including  The Baltimore Atrocities  (Coffee House Press),  Mortals  (Radix Media), and  Activities  (Publishing Genius). He enjoys playing tennis on New York City’s cracked courts and surfing along New York City’s temperamental and often frigid shoreline.

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The University of Tulsa acquires Fab Lab Tulsa

The University of Tulsa has announced the acquisition of Fab Lab Tulsa, which provides access to digital fabrication tools and resources throughout the community through membership and programming. The move is part of TU’s ongoing efforts to promote innovation and aligns with the university’s global reputation in engineering, computer science, and the creative arts. “We […]

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Unique organizational studies program offers expansive opportunities

At roughly 75 majors, organizational studies is one of the largest majors in The University of Tulsa’s Kendall College of Arts & Sciences. From social sciences, media, and arts to business administration, the program provides students a wide range of knowledge and skills, rather than limiting them to a single discipline. But as a so-called […]

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From field work to the classroom, Grau mentors women in energy

Anne Grau has been involved in geology for three decades – working for energy leaders such as EOG Resources and Total Energies – and definitely knows what it’s like to be the only woman in the room. “Being a woman in the oil and gas industry often meant I was one woman in 200 at […]

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TU Law celebrates alumna Sara Hill’s historic confirmation to federal bench

The University of Tulsa’s College of Law congratulates alumna Sara Hill (JD ’03) as she becomes the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge in Oklahoma. This historic appointment marks a significant milestone in the state’s legal landscape. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to confirm Hill, who fills a vacant […]

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More than 60 years of James Joyce Quarterly

Legend has it that Thomas Staley, former provost of The University of Tulsa, founded the James Joyce Quarterly, fondly known as JJQ, in his garage. Or was it his kitchen table? That was more than 60 years ago, and since then the journal has become an internationally esteemed publication known for its publishing of critical […]

Creative writing blooms across TU this spring

The University of Tulsa is a lush garden of creative writing this spring. “I can’t recall a time when the nurturing, generation, and sharing of poems, stories, and other genres has been so vibrant,” commented Dennis Denisoff, chair of the Department of English & Creative Writing . “I am especially impressed by students’ participation and leadership in making TU come alive with so many voices and perspectives.”

RAW for all

RAW meets in Chapman Hall each Friday at 3:15 p.m. Most sessions involve participants writing together and sharing their work for friendly constructive feedback. “We also sometimes read short stories, as well as discuss and workshop pieces students have written outside of club hours,” Thornton noted. In addition, the club hosts periodic special events, such as RAW Horror, a horror-story Hallowe’en event.

As they look to the future, members would like to host more campus-wide gatherings. They also envision restarting RAW’s work with middle and high school students in Tulsa to encourage their creative writing.

Anyone interested in learning more about RAW can email Thornton or join the club’s GroupMe .

“An exhibition in print”

Begun in 2002, Stylus is a student-run, student-produced multidisciplinary journal that showcases TU students’ creative talent in a plethora of written genres and artistic media. “I have always viewed Stylus as a kind of exhibition in print,” commented Michelle Martin, director of TU’s School of Art, Design & Art History . “Stylus illustrates the point that people do not engage in the creative process in a vacuum; one creative form often inspires another.”

The cover, layout, content, and editorial process are all the result of students’ work. This year’s lead writing editor is Stasha Cole, a master’s student in the Department of English & Creative Writing. She is joined at the helm by senior Kristin Robert, the lead art editor.

The theme of the 2024 issue is Common Threads: Weaving Human and Non-Human Worlds. “Our editorial board wanted to do something with ecology, ontology, and the network of life on Earth,” Cole explained. “Weaving and weaving metaphors abound both in literature and art, including tapestries, paper production, and more. It seemed like a sufficiently broad yet also intriguing topic to attract fascinating submissions.”

The 2024 Stylus Awards Ceremony and Launch Party is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, at 101 E. Archer from 7 to 9 p.m. Stay tuned to TU’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities webpage and social media for details.

Students interested in getting more information on submissions, awards, social media, events, and volunteering are urged to join Stylus’ GroupMe .

Mentoring emerging writers

The 2023-24 academic year is the fifth anniversary of the Creative Writing Mentorship Program, a collaboration between TU and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF). Through this program, selected students – most of whom are pursuing a major or minor in English & Creative Writing – work one on one for a semester with a TAF fellow who serves as both an artistic and professional mentor. This is the second year that Kaveh Bassiri , a TAF-affiliated adjunct instructor, has coordinated the program.

Currently, there are five mentor/mentee partnerships. These include Hannah Moua, a junior majoring in English and minoring in media studies. Moua is working with Matt Gallagher on a novel written from the perspective of a young boy-turned-soldier in the midst of a war he does not understand. It also enfolds elements of the Hmong people’s history, from their origins to their engagement in 20th-century wars and how U.S. involvement with the Laotian Civil/Secret War affected them.

“The mentorship has been such an amazing experience both for me and those around me, as I’ve been able to share my journey as a writer creating a story for my people,” Moua said. “Matt has been flexible with scheduling and directions that I want to take my story and in suggesting practices for me to take regarding my writing. He has offered key tips for writing that I’ve placed in my personal writing arsenal, and I can feel that there has been some major improvement within the last few months.”

At their meetings, which occur at a local café, Gallagher provides line notes and revision suggestions on pages Moua has shared with him. “Hannah’s prose is full of engaging, complicated characters and sharp, savvy writing,” he remarked. “I’m deeply impressed by her commitment.”

On Wednesday, April 17, plan to join the Department of English & Creative Writing and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for a celebratory reading featuring the work of this year’s five mentees.

Poetic remembering

One of the public-facing highlights of the spring 2024 creative writing season at TU has been the Poetry and Memory reading series, curated by Kaveh Bassiri, Dennis Denisoff, and Visiting Associate Professor Quraysh Ali Lansana . “Each of our invited poets deals with the impact of memory in unique ways,” remarked Bassiri.

Geoffrey Brock will be the third and final speaker on Monday, April 8, in Tyrrell Hall’s Adelson Auditorium . At this event, Brock will launch his third poetry book, which, Bassiri explained, “is both an elegy for his father, who was also a poet, and a collection of ‘after poems’ – a form of translation that’s in conversation with other writers. These include the Italian poets whose work Brock has been translating and other English-language poets, such as John Keats and Seamus Heaney.”

One of the series’ additional pleasures is the opportunity to hear English & Creative Writing students and faculty read in concert with the guest presenters. Lansana opened the Stewart reading by sharing some of his work, while Abby Rush, a master’s student, opened for Faizullah. Before Brock takes the stage, audience members will enjoy readings by Stylus’ Cole and Presidential Professor Boris Dralyuk .

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New Faculty Joining the English Department in 2024

I write with great pleasure to share the news that Emily Strasser (MFA in Creative Nonfiction, U of Minnesota) will be joining the English Department faculty as our new Professor of the Practice of Creative Nonfiction and Journalism starting in Fall 2024. This position is one among a cluster on “Climate” supported by the Provost’s Office.

Emily’s first book, Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), is a deeply researched memoir which confronts the legacy of her grandfather’s work building nuclear weapons, from the intimate to the environmental to the global. It weaves together the personal and the political, the reported and the lyric, to ask questions about guilt, responsibility, mental illness, complicity, and love. The narrative moves through resonances between the culture of secrecy within her family, within the nuclear weapons industry, and the harms caused by these silences, including the devastation of Hiroshima, mental illness in the family, and the environmental contamination and public health impacts from weapons production. The book won the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award. Emily has published in Ploughshares , Colorado Review , Gulf Coast , Guernica , Catapult , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , The Bitter Southerner , and The New York Times , among other venues, and she was the presenter of the 2020 BBC podcast “The Bomb,” produced for the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.  Her work has been recognized by a Ploughshares Emerging Writers award, an AWP Intro Award, and two notable mentions in Best American Essays . Her writing and research have been supported by the McKnight Foundation, the Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the W.K. Rose Fellowship, among others. We are so pleased to welcome Emily to Tufts in Fall 2024!

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Hacking in Moscow–With an Urban Twist

Professor Nitin Sawhney leads a group discussion during his workshop at the Strelka Institute in Moscow this past July.

From the rise of the Bolsheviks to the trial and sentencing of Pussy Riot , Moscow has long been a site of political struggle. And as Russian society has evolved, so have its citizens’ methods of political action: from the cold war–era samizdat to cyber-dissidence to urban hacking, a movement in which Nitin Sawhney , assistant media studies professor at The New School for Public Engagement, is playing a leading role.

“Urban hacking combines virtual and physical action,” says Sawhney. “We are beginning to see activists using both public and online space as platforms for intervening in public discourse.” This union between the physical and virtual worlds represents a new phenomenon in social action—one involving activity ranging from political activism to community engagement—and the traditionally closed Russian society is beginning to feel its effects.

For ten days in late July, Sawhney and his research assistant, Christo de Klerk, (a MA candidate in media studies at The New School), led 12 design students from Moscow’s Strelka Institute in a series of workshops. Students from the school, in collaboration New School alumna Shriya Malhorta and artist MAKE/ Anton Polsky,  developed projects in which media and technology could be employed to help communities take direct action to improve their urban environment. Local residents identified everyday needs unmet by government agencies—such as crosswalks or public signage—and students worked with them to devise solutions.

Sawhney identifies these actions as a form of “urban tactics” in which citizens use both virtual and physical space to solve civic problems. Following this approach, workshop participants split into four teams to collaborate with local activists on projects in neighborhoods across Moscow. For instance, one of Sawhney’s groups set out to help residents share resources and exchange services in the neighborhood of Troparevo. The group created an online public forum and installed physical mailboxes in central locations in which residents without Internet access could physically submit questions to the forum.

Sawhney immediately noticed positive results. “Not only did we have people participating in the online community, but we saw direct action and interaction in the physical world. In just ten days, we witnessed the building of real relationships.”

A kind of barter system developed soon after the mailboxes and online forum were put into place. “We proposed a system where an individual could write a letter offering to exchange services or goods. For example, a babushka [Russian for “grandmother”] offered to cook in exchange for having something fixed in her home. She placed her letter in one of our mailboxes, and it was then published in the online forum,” said Sawhney. “It actually worked.” Sawhney and his teams hope that projects such as the resource-sharing initiative will lead to larger community management efforts.

Other projects were more directly political in nature. One group worked to organize protests against the building of a highway through a neighborhood, while another sought to positively influence a major real estate development that threatened a historic site.

In a political system in which public participation and organizing are heavily scrutinized, interventions such as the one in Troparevo offer new tools to facilitate community integration. To Sawhney, these efforts represent the first steps toward greater public involvement—and, potentially, to civic dissent. Exploring the interaction between virtual and physical worlds involved in the workshop projects serves another purpose, as well: It supports Sawhney’s research efforts to examine the evolution of civil disobedience and collective action.

“Activism in Russia right now is super gutsy,” Sawhney says, emphasizing the extreme limitations on open discourse in Russia. He notes that creating new systems of community engagement brings a special energy to the program: “I think this project would’ve been completely boring anywhere else.”

Pointing out that Russia generally lacks the kind of grassroots organization other established democracies take for granted, Sawhney embraced the opportunity to begin a project of civic activism from scratch. “Of course, the illicit nature of some of our work within the context of Russia, and my fears that we could be subject to arrest, added another level of excitement,” Sawhney says.

Cases like the Pussy Riot trial underscore the need for robust public discourse in the nation—a feature of healthy civil society that the workshop participants hope to help bring about, block by city block.

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Ovpr announces recipients of 2024 discovery and innovation awards.

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is honoring 11 faculty and staff for their exceptional contributions to research, scholarship, and creative activity as part of the 2024 Discovery and Innovation Awards .

“ The winners represent the best and the brightest of our University of Iowa faculty and staff, who are making an impact across a range of disciplines,”  said Marty Scholtz, vice president for research. “Their research and scholarship enhance undergraduate and graduate education on campus, and their efforts to expand the frontiers of discovery betters our community, state, and world.”

The OVPR solicited nominations from across campus for the awards, which include: Scholar of the Year, Early Career Scholar of the Year, Leadership in Research, and awards that recognize achievement in communicating scholarship with public audiences, community engagement, arts and humanities, mentorship, research administration and safety. A campuswide event on April 30 will celebrate the winners.

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Jun Wang , James E. Ashton Professor and interim departmental executive officer in the College of Engineering’s

 Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, is the 2024 Scholar of the Year . The award celebrates nationally recognized recent achievement in outstanding research, scholarship, and/or creative activities. 

Wang’s research centers on the development of novel remote sensing techniques to characterize aerosols and fires from space. He serves as the University of Iowa’s lead investigator on NASA’s TEMPO, Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution, which Time magazine named one of its best inventions of 2023. 

“Professor Wang's scholarly endeavors over the past two years stand out as a paradigm of excellence, serving as an exemplary model for both emerging and seasoned faculty members to aspire toward,” said Karim Abdel-Malek, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Iowa Technology Institute.

James Byrne , assistant professor of radiation oncology in the Carver College of Medicine ( CCOM ), is the 2024 Early Career Scholar of the Year . The award honors assistant professors who are currently involved in research, scholarship, and/or creative activity and show promise of making a significant contribution to their field. 

As a physician scientist, Byrne continues to care for patients while developing novel biomedical therapies for cancer, finding inspiration in everything from latte foam to tardigrades. In his first two years as faculty at the UI, he has earned more that $2.5M in external research funding, including a K08 award from the NIH.

“Dr. Byrne’s scientific creativity stems from both an active and curious mind as well as his ability to bridge diverse fields from engineering to biology to medicine,” said Michael Henry, professor and interim director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. “These interdisciplinary boundaries are where some of the most interesting and important work is happening today.”

Donna Santillan , research professor and director of the Division of Reproductive Science Research in the CCOM Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the Leadership in Research Award , which recognizes research and scholarly accomplishments throughout a career. 

While Santillan’s research has spanned across the field of reproductive science, she has a particular interest in the deadly diseases of pregnancy, including preeclampsia and its intergenerational effects. She designed and directs the Women’s Health Tissue Repository. Santillan’s work has been cited more than 2,700 times, and she has mentored 114 early career scientists and students, a testament to her expansive impact.

“Dr. Santillan has consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to fostering the professional and personal development of trainees in research, including myself,” said Banu Gumusoglu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. “Her mentorship extends beyond the confines of traditional academic settings, touching the lives of many aspiring trainees from high school through residency, clinical fellowship, and faculty levels.”

Stephen Warren , professor of history and American studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), received the Distinguished Achievement in Publicly Engaged Research Award . The award recognizes an individual faculty member who has put addressing public needs and direct engagement with the public, in the service of improving quality of life through research, at the forefront of his or her academic activities.

A prolific scholar of Native American culture, Warren’s research has centered on the Shawnee people of Oklahoma for the past two decades. He has published four books and co-authored the most recent one , Replanting Cultures: Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country, with Chief Benjamin Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe. 

“Over the last two decades, Professor Warren has established himself as a leading community-engaged scholar, and his achievements in research and publishing demonstrate that community engagement and strong scholarship are not mutually exclusive,” said Nick Benson, director of the Office of Community Engagement. “Professor Warren’s work serves as an inspiration for researchers at Iowa and nationally who seek not only to make a difference in academia, but also in our communities.”

Kaveh Akbar , associate professor of English in CLAS, received the Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Humanities Research Award . This award honors distinguished achievement in humanities scholarship and work in the creative, visual and performing arts. 

Akbar joined Iowa in 2022 to serve as the director of the English and creative writing major. In January, his new novel, Martyr!, was published to critical acclaim. Akbar previously published two prize-winning poetry collections and has served as poetry editor for The Nation  since 2021. 

“Akbar’s leadership in the profession and on campus continues: his transformative work in our department not only enriches the academic experiences of 700+ English and creative writing majors, but also enhances the profile of UI as ‘The Writing University,’” said Blaine Greteman, professor and departmental executive officer of the Department of English.

Cara Hamann , associate professor of epidemiology, received the Faculty Communicating ideas Award . This award recognizes excellence in communication about research and scholarship in the sciences and humanities and the study of creative, visual, and performing arts to a general audience directly or via print and electronic media.

Hamann has frequently shared her work on transportation issues, including teen driving, bike and scooter safety, and pedestrian safety, through peer-reviewed journals and extensive media outreach. Her recent op-ed, “The most deadly traffic policy you’ve never heard of leaves you vulnerable, too,” drew widespread attention to a legal loophole in crosswalk laws and appeared in more than 50 news outlets nationwide, including USA Today .

“Dr. Hamann’s work is not only academically rigorous but also accessible and impactful to a

wide audience,” said Diane Rohlman, associate dean for research in the College of Public Health. “Her ability to communicate with clarity, creativity, and passion coupled with her extensive media outreach, exemplifies how she utilizes multiple approaches to address transportation challenges impacting society.”

Bob McMurray , F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Caroline Clay , assistant professor of acting in the Department of Theatre Arts, were recipients of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Distinguished Mentor Awards . The awards honors mentors’ dedication to making their students research experiences successful.

“I can’t imagine my research journey without Bob’s welcoming kindness, thriving lab community, and confident mentorship, and I am so deeply grateful for his impact on me,” said Hannah Franke, a psychology and linguistics major mentored by McMurray.

“I know I am far from the only student whose life has been impacted by Caroline Clay,” said Isabella Hohenadel, a second-year theatre arts major. “She deserves to be recognized of all of the wonderful work she does and how much she cares about us as students. I cannot think of anyone more deserving of recognition than her.”

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Angie Robertson , department administrator for CCOM’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology, received the Distinguished Research Administrator Award . The award recognizes staff members who performed exceptional service in support of research at the UI by exploring funding opportunities, assisting in grant proposal preparation, submission, post-award administration, and operational support. 

In addition to overseeing every aspect of daily operations for the department, Robertson manages nearly 100 research grants for the department and three longstanding NIH T32 training grants. 

“Angie plays a leading role in our department office, inspiring us to achieve all aspects of our missions ,” said Li Wu, professor and department chair. “She is innovative, collaborative, accountable, and respectful  in her daily work. She exceeds any expectations and sets a great example for staff members in the department.”

Min Zhu , research specialist in the Iowa Institute for Oral Health Research (IIOHR) within the College of Dentistry, received the Distinguished Research Professional Award . The award recognizes staff members who performed exceptional service in support of research at the UI by conducting experiments, collecting, and analyzing results and performing operational duties associated with a laboratory or research program. 

Zhu has worked as a lab bench scientist in the College of Dentistry since 2006, executing experimental work for grants and other research, working closely with IIOHR faculty members, overseeing lab maintenance and environmental health and safety efforts. 

“Beyond her research skills, Dr. Zhu has been an exceptional mentor and educator for my students and other junior researchers,” said Liu Hong, professor of prosthodontics. “Her kindness and willingness to share her knowledge have made her a beloved figure among them.”

Curtis Iberg , manager of sterilization services in the College of Dentistry, received the Innovation in Safety Award, which celebrates exceptional and ground-breaking innovations that advance safety at the UI. Iberg led a major renovation of the College of Dentistry’s instrument processing and sterilization area, with the aim of encouraging better workflow and support for future growth. 

“His innovations in workspace are a valuable asset to the greater University and demonstrates that the most important people to be involved in a space renovation are those that use the area because they can see how the facility can better function and how it can be designed for future needs,” said Kecia Leary, associate dean of clinics.

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Creative Writing Certificate: Paris Writing Intensive

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About This Certificate

Parsons Paris and the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement have joined forces to present a non-credit certificate: the Paris Writing Intensive. During the program, students will have a chance to focus on their own creative writing with a fresh perspective by attending a series of in-depth morning writing workshops in the genre of their choice: fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novel/memoir/poetry. In the afternoon, students will take a closer look at contemporary French culture, examining France's colonial history and Paris' immigrant communities, and taking walking tours of the outer arrondissements. Instruction will include lectures, walking tours, and reading seminars focusing on the published work of migrants and exiles who have made France their home.

Long lauded for its rich literary history, Paris remains a hotbed of aesthetic fermentation and changing norms. Students will learn from our renowned graduate Creative Writing faculty, a project-based experiential learning curriculum, and the resources and stimulating academic environment that a collaboration between the Schools of Public Engagement and Parsons Paris can provide.

All courses are taught in English.

2024 Program Information:

• Priority admissions deadline: December 15, 2023
• Rolling admissions until February 1, 2024
• Program Dates: May 31, 2024 - June 9, 2024
• On or before January 14, 2024: 100% of tuition refunded
• January 15, 2024 or later: 0%

What You’ll Gain

• Intensive focus on developing a writing project and creating new work
• One-on-one collaboration with leading MFA faculty
• Lasting connections with an intimate group of students and instructors
• An experience of writing in a community
• A deeper understanding of contemporary French culture and Francophone literature on migration and exile
• Cultural immersion that provides unique insight into Paris as a diverse, dynamic, and global city

What You’ll Earn

After completing the certificate requirements, you will be able to download and print a copy of your certificate and share it with your network. Your personal certificate will be accessible from your Student Portal.

Who Should Enroll

• Current and emerging writers who would like to hone their technique, expand and deepen an existing project, or create new work inspired by their explorations of Paris
• Anyone interested in learning about and engaging in contemporary French culture through the unique lens of postcolonial history and literature
• Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and continuing education working professionals

How You’ll Learn

• In the morning, students will have a chance to focus on their own creative writing by attending writing workshops in the genre of their choice: fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novel/memoir/poetry
• Afternoon instruction will include lectures, walking tours, and reading seminars focusing on the published work of migrants and exiles who have made France their home
• Small seminars and writing workshops allow for individualized attention
• Critiques from leading faculty practitioners

Why The New School?

The professional landscape as we've known it has changed dramatically, and ongoing learning is more important now than ever before. At The New School, we champion every student's creativity and growth. By combining integrated disciplines with collaborative problem solving, we deliver an immersive, transformative learning experience. Our faculty imparts the critical expertise students need to advance their careers or pivot to a new one in a constantly evolving world.

Additional Details

To apply, you need to have the following materials prepared before filling out the online application . 

Please submit:

• Statement of purpose (250 to 500 words) detailing what you would like to work on during the course
• Five-page writing sample
• Copy of your CV

Required Course

1 Course(s)

• NWRW 0003 Global Citizen Initiative–Creative Writing at Parsons Paris

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This privacy notice describes how The New School collects and processes personal data about you at The New School; how we use, store, transfer, and protect this personal data; and your rights in relation to this personal data. This notice applies to The New School, with global headquarters at 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 USA, as well as to its affiliated legal entities and branches (collectively “we,” “us,” or “our”):

• TNS Parsons (“Parsons Paris”) of 45 rue Saint-Roch, 75001 Paris, France is the European branch of Parsons School of Design. Parsons Paris works closely with our US-based operations and certain information is shared between entities, so for purposes of this privacy notice, both The New School and Parsons Paris are data controllers. For more information on how your information is shared with third parties, please refer to Section 3 of this notice.

This privacy notice applies to all personal data we collect or process about you (i) from the information you provide to us when you interact with us before applying (e.g., when you express your interest in studying at The New School); (ii) when you apply to study at The New School and complete enrollment forms or other admissions documentation; (iii) when you communicate with us by telephone, email, or via our website (e.g., in order to make inquiries or raise concerns); (iv) when you interact with us during your time as a student at The New School; and (v) from third parties (e.g., from recruitment organizations, government agencies in connection with financial aid or student visas, or from your previous or current school, university, or employer(s), who may provide records or a reference about you, or who may sponsor or pay for your studies). This notice will inform you of:

• Personal data we collect and use;
• How we use your personal data and the basis on which we use it;
• Who has access to your personal data;
• How your personal data is protected and stored;
• International transfer of your data;
• How to exercise your rights;
• How to contact us; and
• Changes to the privacy notice.

1. Personal data we collect and use

We collect and use certain personal data about you. Personal data is information about you through which you can be identified (including where you can be identified by combining the information with other information).

Note that we may be required by law to collect certain personal data about you, or as a consequence of our contractual relationship with you. Failure to provide this personal data may prevent or delay the fulfilment of these obligations. We will inform you at the time your personal data is collected whether certain data is compulsory and the consequences of the failure to provide such personal data.

1.1 Personal data we collect directly from you

We collect some personal data directly from you. Personal data that is collected directly from you includes the following:

a) Personal details, such as your name(s), date of birth, and place of birth; b) Contact details, such as your phone number, personal email address, mailing address, and social media handles; c) Demographic details, such as your age, marital status, languages spoken, national origin, and current nationality; d) Citizenship status; e) Military or veteran status; f) Identification numbers, such as your Social Security number or other government-issued identification number; g) Authenticating information, such as user names, passwords, and security questions and answers; h) Passport and visa information; i) Financial information, such as your bank account information related to direct deposits; j) Information relating to financial aid, scholarships, and immigration status, such as information collected in connection with financial aid applications, financial aid and scholarship eligibility, immigration applications, and information about your or your family’s or your sponsor’s financial situation; k) Information about your location while on break from your studies; l) Information you submit in connection with your application for admission, including your personal essay, portfolio, academic transcript, test scores, disciplinary records, work history, and other information submitted with your résumé; m) Information about your preferences; n) Photographs for use in identification; o) Your emergency contact details, such as names of your emergency contacts and their contact information; p) Communications you send us, including your requests and information provided by you in the form of feedback or complaints about the program, housing, or other matters; and q) Information about your family, including the names of relatives who have attended The New School and education information.

1.2 Personal data generated by us

In addition, the following categories of personal data about you may be generated by The New School in the course of our relationship with you:

a) Student identifiers, such as your student ID number, NetID (user name for university systems), and other internal identification numbers; b) University email address; c) Employment details if you are employed by The New School as a student, such as work-study or other employment details, including salary or pay information, performance evaluations, and job actions; d) Travel information, including a log of travel excursions; e) Information about your computer and other devices, including your IP address, MAC address, and information about your browser and operating system; f) Records of emergency incidents; g) Student and education information, including your academic transcript, attendance records, grades, recommendations or feedback from teachers, and current and prior course schedules; h) Student conduct records; i) Audio and visual information captured by lecture capture systems, videoconferencing systems, web-based meeting applications, and similar technologies; j) Visual information captured by security cameras; k) Information regarding financial aid and eligibility for financial aid and scholarships; l) Federal immigration documents; and m) Information regarding building and cafeteria access.

1.3 Personal data we obtain from other sources

The New School may also obtain the following categories of personal data about you from third parties :

a) Contact and demographic information, including publicly available information, which we collect from third parties who provide us information about prospective students who may be interested in attending The New School. We may also collect this contact information from students about their parents, family members, and legal guardians; b) Feedback and information from your teachers, school faculty, and others; c) Information about your or your family’s or your sponsor’s financial status and ability to pay tuition or school expenses; d) Academic performance, test scores, student conduct (including complaints brought by you, about you, or to which you may be a witness), and attendance information from other institutions; and e) Non-academic performance information and feedback from organizations with which you have participated.

1.4 Sensitive data we collect and use

Some of the categories of personal data that we collect are considered special categories of personal data under European Union law. In particular, we may process the following types of sensitive data:

a) Health and medical information, including your medical history, information about your health during your time studying with The New School, information about disabilities or related accommodations, information about allergies or dietary restrictions, and health insurance information; b) Information about your racial or ethnic origin; c) Information about your gender identity, sex assigned at birth, and preferred pronoun (if you choose to disclose it for purposes of matching with roommates) and information about the facts and circumstances surrounding instances or allegations of sexual misconduct (which may be collected in the context of investigations into or adjudications of allegations of sexual misconduct, assault, or unlawful activity); and d) Information about criminal convictions.

2. How we use your personal data and the basis on which we use it

The New School uses your personal data in connection with your engagement with and your enrollment at The New School for the following purposes:

• Considering your applications for admission and financial aid. Our basis for doing so is the performance of the pre-contractual relations we have with you and to serve our legitimate interests in selecting a diverse and qualified student body;
• Contacting you about our academic programs, events, related opportunities, or other updates about The New School. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in marketing and student outreach. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before sending you marketing communications.
• Communicating with applicants throughout the application process. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in responding to applicant requests and efficiently managing the application process.
• Carrying out our contractual obligations to you and exercising our rights in this respect, including provision of academic and support services, travel accommodations, insurance, housing, and related services associated with The New School academic program. Our basis for doing so is the performance of the contract we have with you.
• Identifying students, including for creating a student identification card that includes your photo. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in keeping our campus and associated facilities safe and secure.
• Supporting teaching, learning, and staff development using audio and/or video recording of lectures, presentations, or training events. Our bases for doing so are the performance of the contract we have with you and serving our legitimate interests in delivering educational services to students and enabling professional development for our faculty and staff;
• Responding to emergencies, such as contacting you or your family in the event of an incident. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in supporting the health and well-being of our students;
• Program development, travel planning, student development, tracking of academic progression, and commencement exercises. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in the efficient management and administration of our academic programs and extracurricular activities;
• Keeping our campus and associated facilities safe and secure. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in protecting our students, property, and facilities;
• Operating our information technology systems. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in supporting your use of the systems, understanding usage and performance of the systems, investigating information security or data integrity incidents, and providing evidence in disciplinary procedures;
• Maintaining our alumni records. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in fostering relationships with alumni, maintaining alumni networks, and supporting our fundraising efforts;
• Meeting the obligations of private organizations with oversight over The New School, such as accreditation organizations. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in maintaining accreditation;
• Keeping our records accurate and up-to-date. This processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations and to serve our legitimate interests in efficient management and administration; and
• Complying with legal obligations to which we are subject, including to defend your and our rights in legal proceedings and to cooperate with regulators, law enforcement, and governmental or other competent bodies. This processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations and to serve our legitimate interests in complying with the laws to which we are subject.

2.1 How we use sensitive data

• Health and medical information. To the extent we process health and medical information, we do so to support your health and wellbeing while attending The New School and to respond to medical and mental health issues and emergencies. In the case of information relating to disability or other accommodations, we process such data to provide learning assistance, mobility, and other necessary accommodations. Our basis for doing so is compliance with social obligations laws or where there is a substantial public interest in providing such services or accommodations. Additionally, in some contexts we may rely on your prior consent to process such data.
• Information revealing an individual’s racial or ethnic origin. To the extent we process information revealing racial or ethnic origin, such information is voluntarily disclosed during the application process for purposes of statistical reporting related to diversity. We rely on your prior consent for such processing.
• Information about an individual’s gender identity, sex assigned at birth, and preferred pronoun. To the extent we process information about an individual’s gender identity, sex assigned at birth, and preferred pronoun, such information is voluntarily disclosed to help facilitate matching with roommates for student housing purposes. Students are not required to provide such information, and where they do we rely on the student’s prior consent to process the information.
• Information about the facts and circumstances surrounding instances or allegations of sexual misconduct. To the extent we process such data, we do so only in the context of investigations into or adjudications of allegations of sexual misconduct, assault, or unlawful activity. Our basis for doing so is that the processing is necessary for the initiation, exercise, substantiation, or defense of legal claims and that processing of sensitive information in this context serves a substantial public interest. To the extent such investigations do not specifically involve special categories of data as defined by applicable law, our basis for processing is that it is necessary to serve our legitimate interests in complying with our legal obligations.
• Information about an individual’s criminal convictions. Where permissible under law, we may process this information in the context of the admissions process.

3. Who has access to your personal data

We treat your personal data with care and confidentiality. Your personal data will be available for the purposes mentioned above and only to employees on a need to know basis and to the extent reasonably necessary to perform their functions. We may share your personal data with third parties under the following circumstances:

• Service providers and business partners. We may share your personal data with our service providers and academic or business partners that perform services for us. For example, we may partner with other companies or entities to provide services for you in relation to our academic programs or affiliated study abroad programs (for example, our mobility program), such as learning management system providers, information technology providers, emergency service providers, study abroad providers or other foreign institutions involved in our study abroad programs, homestay facilitators, tour operators, or other academic institutions. We may also partner with companies or other employers to provide internship opportunities to interested students; The New School may transmit your personal data or provide a recommendation for you to these organizations.
• The New School’s global headquarters and branch campuses. The New School’s branch campuses are a part of The New School, whose global headquarters is located in the United States. The branch campuses work closely with our US-based operations and, from time to time, with each other. As a result, we may share certain personal data about you collected or used in the context of our academic programs with other New School personnel located at our main campus in the United States or other branch locations.
• Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators, government authorities, or other third parties. We may share your personal data with these parties where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
• Private organizations with oversight over The New School. We may share your personal data to the extent necessary to meet the obligations of private organizations with oversight over The New School, such as accreditation organizations.

Because we operate internationally, the recipients referred to above may be located outside the jurisdiction in which you are located (or in which we provide the services). See the section on “International transfer of your data” below for more information.

4. How your personal data is protected and stored

We implement physical, technical, and organizational measures designed to safeguard the personal data we process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the ongoing integrity and confidentiality of personal data.

We will retain your personal data for as long as we have a relationship with you (throughout the duration of your studies and in many cases afterwards, as part of the alumni community). Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal data for a period of time that enables us to:

• Maintain academic records;
• Comply with record retention requirements under applicable law;
• Defend or bring any existing or potential legal claims; and
• Resolve or otherwise address any complaints or queries relating to our programs.

Please note that personal data about admitted students is retained beyond graduation (or after your studies otherwise end), and the data is added to our permanent alumni records.

5. International transfer of your data

Your personal data may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country that is not regarded as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data under the data protection laws of your locale.

We have put in place appropriate safeguards (such as contractual commitments) in accordance with applicable legal requirements to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected. For more information on the safeguards in place, please contact us at the details below.

6. How to exercise your rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal data. You have the right to access personal data The New School holds, and in some situations you have the right to have that personal data corrected or updated, erased, restricted, or delivered to you or a third party in a usable electronic format (the right to data portability). You may also object to how The New School uses your personal data if the legal basis for processing that information is our legitimate interest.

Where we are using your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You also have the right to register a complaint to the applicable supervisory data protection authority.

If you wish to exercise these rights, or to notify us of a change in your details, or if you have any questions on the content of this notice, please contact us at [email protected] .

7. How to contact us

If you have questions or concerns regarding the way in which your personal data has been used, please contact us at [email protected] or:

The New School Office of Information Security and Privacy 71 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor New York, NY 10003 USA

Our representative in the European Union is TNS Parsons, of 45 rue Saint-Roch, 75001 Paris, France.

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about your privacy. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to the applicable supervisory data protection authority:

• For Parsons Paris, the supervisory data protection authority is the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – CNIL, 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715 – 75334 Paris, Cedex 07, https://www.cnil.fr/ .

8. Changes to the privacy notice

You may request a copy of this privacy notice from us using the contact details set out above. We may modify or update this privacy notice from time to time.

Where changes to this privacy notice will have a fundamental impact on the nature of the processing or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will notify you of the changes and give you sufficient advance notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights (for example, to object to the processing). REVISED JUNE 24, 2020

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New journalism school in London sets out to improve diversity

Founder of Cocoa Girl magazine says children will also be taught creative writing, music and illustration

The founder of the first major Black children’s magazine in the UK is to open a journalism school to combat representation problems in the creative industries.

Serlina Boyd, who founded Cocoa Girl magazine with her daughter Faith, then aged six, during lockdown in 2020, will open the Cocoa School of Journalism and Creative Arts on Monday.

The school, based in Beckenham, south London , will teach children about news reporting, video editing and illustration.

“We don’t just teach journalism, we teach creative writing and music, and it will be a hub that champions creativity,” said Boyd.

“Doing this journalism school, it’s going to inspire the next generation to see that there is a whole new avenue that they can go down instead of the normal stereotypical routes that they may pick, and we do it in a fun way.”

The unique hub will also have a parents’ and guardians’ storytelling centre and offer a fashion styling course, with adult evening classes for people who want to learn a new skill.

Feeling disillusioned with the lack of representation in journalism and the creative industries, Boyd was moved to do something to challenge it. She said: “It’s the statistics that got me. They are quite shocking and I feel that there need to be more journalists telling our stories.

“According to the Sutton Trust, 80% of editors went to private school; only 11% of journalists are from working-class backgrounds, and a measly 0.2% of journalists are Black.”

Cocoa magazine is put together by a team of journalists aged 10 and above and is distributed in 500 schools across the UK. Soon after founding Cocoa for girls in 2020, a Cocoa for boys was launched.

Boyd said the impact of teaching journalistic skills to the next generation of Black children had been amazing.

“A group of our girls interviewed Halle Bailey, who starred in the recent Little Mermaid movie as the first Black depiction of Ariel, and that video went absolutely viral,” she said.

“It allowed children that are normally seen in a positive light to be seen as such and to tell their story, and basically fit their own narrative and not wait for the world to paint a picture which is not necessarily true.”

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The school, which will run every day during after-school hours and throughout the day during half-term, will have a “no phone” policy.

“With the school we are going back to basics, children are so used to just scrolling, and they are not picking up the pen and interacting, so we are changing that,” Boyd said.

The response to the announcement of the school has been overwhelming, Boyd says, with more than 300 signups from parents wanting to enrol their children.

“Parents have been crying out for this. This school is a chance for children from under-represented backgrounds to improve their social skills and we are all just really excited,” she said.

This headline has been amended to better reflect the content of the article.

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• Discrimination at work
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