51福利社

Since graduating from the MFA program in poetry,聽Ann Huston has pursued her dream job of being a park ranger. She has worked as seasonal park ranger at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah; Coronado National Memorial in Arizona; Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Alaska; and Chiricahua National Monument in AZ. These parks and…

Ruth Williams is the author of Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), a full-length collection of poetry, as well as two poetry chapbooks,聽 Nursewfiery (Jacar Press, 2019) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, jubilat, Pleiades, and Third Coast among others. She has also published creative nonfiction in Crab…

While an MFA student at 51福利社, Matthew Spaur served as fiction editor for聽Willow Springs聽and was nominated for the AWP Intro Awards. After graduating in 1998, he was the co-owner and publisher of Spokane’s聽The Local Planet Weekly, a nationally recognized weekly newspaper. In his memoir聽Making a Small Fortune, he writes about launching the newspaper while caring…

Ingrid (Johnson) Keriotis received her MFA from 51福利社 in 2000. Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Talking River,聽and the Summer 2016 issue of聽Poetry Now Online.聽She is also published in the 2011 anthology聽More Than Soil, More Than Sky.聽She teaches English at Sierra College in California and read as part of the Yuba Lit聽reading…

After graduating from 51福利社 with her Masters in creative writing,聽Danielle Ward聽helped spread the joy of reading and writing as聽the聽Get Lit!聽Program Director from 2008 to 2011. She then moved to San Diego, California and became the聽Literary Manager at the San Diego REPertory Theatre. This includes reading over 250 plays a year and leading the selection of…

After receiving her MFA in fiction in 2004,聽Emily Van Kley聽quickly switched to writing poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, and Best American Poetry among others. She鈥檚 a recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Florida Review Editor鈥檚 Award, and the Loraine Williams Prize from…

Tom C. Hunley聽 graduated from the MFA in 1996. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. His latest books are Adjusting to the Lights (winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize) and What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems (C&R Press 2021).…

Kathryn Smith graduated from Eastern’s MFA program in 2004 with a focus in poetry. She is the author of Book of Exodus, which was published by Scablands Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review,聽Bellingham Review,聽Redivider,聽Southern Indiana Review,聽Carve Magazine,聽Third Coast,聽Rock & Sling,聽Ruminate, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for Best American…

Matthew Campbell Roberts聽was born in Napa, California, and attended a one-room schoolhouse in Wooden Valley set in the middle of a vineyard. He currently teaches English courses at Pierce College. His poems and other work appear in聽Clover,聽Cirque Journal, StringTown, Clackamas Review, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review,聽Whatcom Places II,聽The Kennesaw Review,聽Windfall,聽The Methow Naturalist,聽SmartishPace,聽Jeopardy聽and other literary…

Carol Ellis鈥榮 volume of poetry,聽Catapult: Cancer with Ron, has been published by Gray Dog Press, 2016. Other poems have appeared online. Her essay, 鈥淚n Defense of Ice,鈥� was published by Penguin Classics and the Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009.