Alumni News

  • Melissa Sevigny, CWE Alumna, wins National Outdoor Book Award in History

    Melissa Sevigny, a Creative Writing and the Environment alumna (English ’13) won the National Outdoor Book Award in History.  It has also appears on the longlist… Read More

  • Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir.

    Taylor Brorby, a 2018 alum of the MFA Program in CWE, has just published his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a… Read More

  • MA Literature Graduate Publishes First Book

    Mary Stoecklein (2013 MA Literature) has published her first book, Native American Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations.  Mary graduated with her PhD in American Indian… Read More

  • English Alum Kerry Skram Writes Classic Novel Adaptation for ISU Theatre

    Kerry Skram (’95 English and 2011 English Dept. Distinguished Alumni Award recipient) wrote an adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel “Sense and Sensibility” for… Read More

  • MFA Alum Sarah Burke Wins Editor’s Prize Book Award

    Sarah Burke (2013) was recently awarded the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize for her poetry collection, “Blueprints.”  The manuscript was Sarah’s thesis when she… Read More

  • David Niedergeses

    David Niedergeses completed his dissertation research, “Constructing collaborative ecologies: How selection, practice, and mediation assemble and shape social and collaborative software” before moving into a… Read More

  • Elizabeth Wardle

    Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Professor and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami of Ohio.  Her research on transfer at Iowa State… Read More

  • Clay Spinuzzi

    Clay Spinuzzi is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches in the School of Information.  He studies workplaces… Read More

  • Scott Graham

    Scott Graham, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, directs the Public Engagement and Science Communication Laboratory.  Scott’s recent book, The Politics of Pain Medicine:… Read More

  • Amy Harris-Tehan

    As Researcher Development Coordinator, Amy does training and development for ISU’s Office of the Vice President for Research.  Previously, Amy did training for Ames Laboratory… Read More

  • Sharon Wiederanders

    Sharon Wiederanders is an Information Architect at Garmin International, where she is the TechComm Coordinator for the fitness segment, serving as subject matter expert and… Read More

  • Janna Dorman

    Janna Dorman is a senior web-based training developer at Allina Health, a large healthcare organization located in Minneapolis, MN.  She creates interactive eLearning content utilizing… Read More

  • DeRionne Pollard
    DeRionne Pollard

    DeRionne Pollard, President of Montgomery College, a multi-campus community college of 60,000 students near Washington, D.C., received an Iowa State BA in 1993 and MA… Read More

  • Shengyu Wang 2008
    Shengyu Wang (2008)

    Shengyu Wang received an MA in English in 2008.  He completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago writing on “Chinese Enchantment:… Read More

  • Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the Year

    Sarah Brown Wessling, an Iowa State undergraduate and graduate alumna in English, was named the 2010-2011 National Teacher of the Year. President Obama conferred the… Read More

  • Matthew Baker, PhD graduate in RPC, wins Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

    Matthew Baker, a Ph.D. graduate in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program, won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award earlier this year at the Association for… Read More

  • 2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue

    MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay… Read More

  • Jenny Cameron Paulsen

    English Education 1993 I live in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and I teach English to 8th and 9th graders at Holmes Junior High School there. I… Read More