Ty Roth, who graduated with an MA in Literature in 2005 while teaching high school full time in Port Clinton, Ohio, has just signed a two-book deal with Delecorte, a Random House imprint, based on their acquisition of his first novel, So Shelly. According to the official announcement at Publishers Weekly, So Shelly “transposes Romantic [...]
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Dan Nowak’s first poetry collection, Recycle Suburbia, was the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award Winner, and is now available at Amazon. Congratulations to Dan, a UT Creative Writing graduate! Here is a blurb about the book. “Dan Nowak’s Recycle Suburbia is effervescent, irreverent, erotic, and funny. He celebrates the absence of maps, and how you can get [...]
Fatima Esseili and Veronica Jayne, both graduates of our Master’s in English — Concentration in ESL and now doctoral students at Purdue, were involved in the 1st Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on ESL Studies, Fatima, as one of the organizers, Veronica, as a presenter (“Making a Book with Elementary School Writers: Process, product and [...]