ALUMS

Eric M. Bosarge (Popular Fiction, W’12) is thrilled to announce the release of his novel, The Time Train. He is doing a book signing at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine, on July 12th at 7:00 p.m.

Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S’13) is pleased to announce a new issue of Escape Artist’s Mothership Zeta Magazine (#4) will publish in July featuring nonfiction articles from Stonecoast alumni Sean Robinson and Adam Gallardo, as well as an article by herself and Stonecoast faculty James Patrick Kelly—Karen serves as the Nonfiction Assistant Editor under Editor in Chief (and alumna) Mur Lafferty. Furthermore, Karen is thrilled to announce her new poem “Syncing Minefields” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Strange Horizons Magazine and her narration of Krystal Claxton’s story “Heartless” is now available for listening at District of Wonders Network’s Far Fetched Fables Podcast. Karen’s short poem “What Dolls Eat” (originally published at The Were-Traveler) has been nominated for a Dwarf Stars award and appears in the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Dwarf Stars 2016: The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2015 anthology. The biggest (and scariest) news is that Karen’s first novel will be coming out first quarter 2017—but she tries not to jinx it by talking about it too much. She’s currently neck deep in edits with a July 30 deadline, and continues to be grateful for her Stonecoast experiences every day.

Libby Cudmore (Popular Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, S’10) and Matthew Quinn Martin (Popular Fiction, S’10) have joined the faculty of Western Connecticut State University’s Low-Residency MFA Program. In addition, both Libby and Matthew have contributed stories to the upcoming adoption-themed YA anthology Welcome Home (Jolly Fish Press), which is slated for release in Fall of 2017.

John Florio (Fiction/Popular Fiction, S‘07) is now a contributor at The New Yorker website. You can read his work here and here. His next book, One Nation Under Baseball, will be published by University of Nebraska Press in Spring 2017.

Barbara P. Greenbaum (Fiction, S’05) has had the following short stories published: “Dumbass” in Massachusetts Review (Winter issue of 2016), “Go Out Like Sunday” in Louisville Review (Spring edition 2016), “Hopeless” in Halfway Down the Stairs, “Charms” in Marathon Literary Review, and “Dancing with Daddy” in Fiction Fix (Summer of 2016 issue). She has also had two poems accepted for publication in the Spring 2016 issue of The Binnacle, “Grackles” and “Again.” Her work has appeared in numerous other literary publications. She has also recently retired from teaching full time at a magnet arts high school in Willimantic, CT, to work on her novel. She writes using the pen name B. P. Greenbaum

Eboni Ardell Harris‘s (Popular Fiction, S’08; pen name E. Ardell) first YA Science Fiction/Fantasy novel The Fourth Piece, published by 48fourteen, comes out in all formats on July 8, 2016. Read more about it here.

Mary Heather Noble (Creative Nonfiction, W’14) is pleased to report that her essay “Eulogy for an Owl” was selected as a Finalist in The Bellingham Review’s 2016 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her flash piece “Things I (Shouldn’t) Have to Tell My Daughters” was also recently featured in The Fem.

Carolyn O’Doherty (Popular Fiction, W’11) has accepted a two-book deal with Boyds Mills Press for her young adult novel Rewind and a to-be-determined follow up.

Lisa Romeo (Creative Nonfiction, S’08) is pleased that in June, Purple Clover featured her nonfiction narrative “A Father, A Road Trip, the Polyester Mafia” (or, as the click-aware editors there dubbed it, “Goodfella: I liked being the rich kid whose father may or may not have been in the mafia”). At Cleaver Magazine, a short piece of nonfiction appeared: “Break a Leg” (no connection to the Mafia theme!); while Fifty is the New Fifty published “Not Enough Ways to Remember a Dad.” Finally, at the Submittable Blog, her guest post, “Want to Know How Lit Journal Editors Think? What One Issue’s Accepted Work Can Tell You,” is now live.

Konza: A Bioregional Journal on Living in Place will publish Olive L. Sullivan‘s (Fiction/Cross Genre, S’15) essay “Romeo at Pin Oak” in the July issue. The journal is a project of the Kansas Area Watershed Council and is headed by former Kansas poet laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.

CURRENT STUDENTS

Jennifer Castello (Popular Fiction) has been chosen by the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts for an artist residency this November.

FACULTY

Jeanne Marie Beaumont (Poetry) will be helping to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of BOA Editions when she reads with four other BOA poets in the Bryant Park Reading Series on Tuesday, July 5th. The reading will be held in the outdoor Bryant Park Reading Room off 42nd Street behind the New York Public Library in Manhattan and will begin at 7:00 p.m. It’s free, and it would be great to see some Stonecoasters there!

Theodora Goss‘s (Popular Fiction) modern fairy tale, “Red as Blood and White as Bone,” was published on Tor.com. Her story “Beautiful Boys” is a finalist for the Seiun Award (in Japanese translation). In July, she will be an author guest at Readercon, in Quincy, MA.

Nancy Holder (Popular Fiction) will appear at San Diego Comic-Con International. On Friday, July 22 from noon to 1:00 p.m., she will sign Scales and Tales: Finding Forever Homes, a charity anthology, and at 6:00 p.m. she will appear at the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers Scribe Awards ceremony and panel discussion (she is a nominee for Best Adapted Novel for Crimson Peak).

In the forthcoming summer issue of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Elizabeth Searle (Fiction, Popular Fiction, Scriptwriting) has an excerpt from her new novel, We Got Him, which will be published by New Rivers Press in November 2016.