MFA Alumni
Recent Alumni
- Catherine Bascom (2017)
Project Title: On green stuff woven
After graduation: Continue as Assistant Professor, Waldorf University, Forest City, Iowa
- Nicholas Bogdanich (2015)
Project Title: Inflatable castles
- William Bonfiglio (2016)
Project Title: “The Year Of” and “A Statement”
After graduation: Lecturer, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Taylor Brorby (2017)
Project Title: Scoria: Prose and poetry
After graduation: Emerging Writer Fellow, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Meghan Brown (2015)
Project Title: Animal people
- Iza Bruen-Morningstar (2019)
Project Title: Shrike
After graduation: Avian field biologist, UC Davis, Davis, California
- Danielle Buchanan (2019)
Project Title: Baby, let go
- Corrina Carter (2016)
Project Title: Talus: A mustang’s story
- Renee Christopher (2019)
Project Title: Conjured Light
- Chloe Clark (2016)
Project Title: Salty over the shoulder
After graduation: Lecturer, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Kristen Daily (2017)
Project Title: One half for me / the other for you
After graduation: Grants Associate, Des Moines Art Center
- Michelle Donahue (2015)
Project Title: City of voices: A novel about ancient Tikal
- Samantha Futhey (2016)
Project Title: Subdivision
- Elizabeth Giorgi (2016)
Project Title: Skin maps
After graduation: Lecturer, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Matthew Glasgow (2018)
Project Title: Deciduous qween
After graduation: Writer-in-Residence, Writers in the Schools, Houston, Texas
- Elizabeth Hamilton-Poore (2017)
Project Title: Mourningwood
- Meghann Hart (2017)
Project Title: Kentucky ghostscapes: Stories
- Laura Hitt (2018)
Project Title: Skinned: A collection of linked stories
- Emily Horner (2019)
Project Title: Blackthorn City
- Joel Nathanael Hughes (2018)
Project Title: Field notes from an infalling observer, unidentified inquiry / Unknown wave, sequence_(8)
After graduation: Master of Arts in Graphic Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Ana Hurtado (2017)
Project Title: Ashes at noon
After graduation: Teacher, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
- Claire Kortyna (2017)
Project Title: Things gathered, things fallen
- Claire Kruesel (2015)
Project Title: The grace of their breakage
After graduation: Lecturer, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Amalie Kwassman (2019)
Project Title: Some other god
After graduation: PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Renee LeClaire (2017)
Project Title: The danger is to the body
- Zachary Lisabeth (2019)
Project Title: Shattered: The girl who woke the moon
After graduation: Writer at Lisabeth Creative
- Audrey McCombs (2016)
Project Title: Servants of the rice
- Jenna Mertz (2018)
Project Title: Prefab modular homes, nightgames and Lake Tilson
After graduation: Assistant Director, Writing and Media Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Camille Meyers (2017)
Project Title: Our animal anatomy
- Ebonesiah Morrow (2018)
Project Title: Saltwater: A novel in verse
- Erin Schmiel (2016)
Project Title: The heart of ecology
After graduation: Lecturer, English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Kelly Slivka (2017)
Project Title: A long time growing up
- Eric Stone (2019)
Project Title: Animal joy
- Shelby Rae Stringfield (2019)
Project Title: The words we cannot say
- Dana Thomann (2016)
Project Title: Erratics
- Stefanie Trout (2015)
Project Title: Call it Eden: A novel
After graduation: Co-editor, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland; Ice Cube Press
- Phoebe Wagner (2018)
Project Title: Strange stars
After graduation: PhD in English Literature, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada
- Bronté Wieland (2018)
Project Title: The gardens below, or sundown
- Adam Wright (2016)
Project Title: The seed speaker