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    Creative Writing Program

    1000 E. University Ave.

    Laramie, WY 82071

    Phone: 307-766-6452

    Fax: 307-766-3189

    Email: cw@uwyo.edu

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    MFA Student News

    2023

    Undergraduate Creative Writing Minor and Zoo/Phys Major Mackenzie Thomas was awarded an A&S Travel grant, which she is using to present her creative/research project “The Cost of Caring” at the National Wildlife Rehabilitation Association Symposium in Wilmington, Delaware in February, 2023.

    The following MFA students have won the Dean’s Graduate Scholar Award to travel and perform research for their writing projects:  Janna Gentry (2024), Katy Storch (2024), Sam Sharp (2024), Graham Marema (2024), and Casey Reiland (2024).

    Rae Haight (2023) used her Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Study Abroad, Global Engagement Scholarship to travel to Iceland over the summer of 2022.

    Our students have been busy publishing:

    Janissa Martinez (2022):  published a multi-genre piece entitled “2022” for wyoartsvaccineconfidence.com.

    Lena Newlin (2024):  published a piece entitled “Heart Mountain” in the High Desert Journal.

    Caio Driver (2023): published a piece entitled “Chasing Fire” in The North American Review.

    Birch Maltotky published a piece entitled “Free Range Carbon” in Western Confluence, and created a podcast entitled “A Promise Never to Plow” for The Modern West WPR.

    Rae Haight (2023): has an upcoming review entitled “Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom” in Composition Studies, and has published a piece entitled “That’s What Kids are For” in Under the Gum Tree.


    2020 

    Sally Leaf’s piece “Unsung Pollinators ” was published in Western Confluence.

    Dana Liebelson was accepted into the Tin House workshop for short fiction, and awarded a Dean's Grant. She has published multiple pieces in Elle, and published a journalism feature in Insider about Bozeman, Montana and the pandemic (with some writing on Wyoming as well!).

    Nell Smith received an HG Merriam Grant, and a Haub School of ENR Student Research & Creative Activities Grant. She published in Essay Daily.


    2019 

    Sally Leaf’s piece “Things We Might Have Called Crazy” was nominated by Grub Street Literary & Arts Magazine for a Pushcart Prize.

    Dana Liebelson’s article “In Prison, and Fighting to Vote” was published in the Atlantic.

    Kari Nielsen won the Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition. She also published in Waymaking: An Anthology of Women's Adventure Writing, Poetry and Art, CIRQUE, The Esthetic Apostle, and Wanderlust.


    2018

    Jenny Zhang had a piece about Wyoming published at Catapult here: https://catapult.co/stories/what-wyoming-taught-me-about-my-eating-disorder-jenny-tinghui-zhang.

    Alejandro Alonso Galva started a newsletter to compliment his podcast AleVida.

    Lindsay Lynch's s hort story "Please Help Yourself" was named an Honorable Mention in Pigeon Page's Art of Prose contest, judged by Katie Kitamura: https://pigeonpagesnyc.com/please-help-yourself. She received a scholarship to attend the 2018 Napa Valley Writer's Conference.

    Francesca King received a Dick and Lynne Cheney Study Abroad Fellowship for $4,000. This money was originally awarded for independent study in Canada’s High Arctic (research for a new novel) but will now go towards the Arctic Circle Residency 2019, for which Francesca was awarded a place on the Summer Solstice Expedition. The residency emphasizes collaboration between artists and entails 21 days of sailing + shore excursions in the High Arctic.

    Jenny Zhang received a Dick and Lynne Cheney Study Abroad Grant for study of food culture in China.

    Lindsay Lynch received a $1200 Dick and Lynne Cheney Study Abroad Grant, and A $4000 Sheila Langlois Memorial Fellowship for Study Abroad in Art History and the Humanities to study sixteenth century still life paintings.

    Lindsay also recently published this essay in Electric Literature: https://electricliterature.com/women-dont-get-to-be-asshole-geniuses-1583090eee9e

     

     
    Contact Us

    Creative Writing Program

    1000 E. University Ave.

    Laramie, WY 82071

    Phone: 307-766-6452

    Fax: 307-766-3189

    Email: cw@uwyo.edu

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