SOME OF OUR ALUMNI
Following is a list of UC graduates who have published at least one book or chapbook:
Lisa Ampleman
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Full Cry (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2013),
winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition
I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State University Press,
2012), winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
Cynthia Arrieu-King
(Ph.D., 2008)
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Manifest (Switchback Books, 2013), winner of the Gatewood Prize
By a Year Lousy with Meteors (Dream Horse Press, 2012), co-written
with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, winner of the Dream Horse Press
Chapbook Prize
People Are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books, 2010)
Assistant Professor, Stockton State College
Joseph Bates
(Ph.D., 2006)
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Tomorrowland (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013)
The Nighttime Novelist (Writer’s Digest Books, 2010)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University
David Bell
(Ph.D., 2005)
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Never Come Back (NAL, Penguin, 2013)
The Hiding Place (NAL, Penguin, 2012)
Cemetery Girl (NAL, Penguin, 2011)
The Girl in the Woods (Delirium Books, 2009)
The Condemned (Delirium Books, 2008)
Co-editor, Commutability: Stories About the Journey from Here to
There (Main Street Rag, 2010)
Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University
Josh Bell
(Ph.D., 2013)
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No Planets Strike (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, Harvard University
Dina Ben-Lev
(Ph.D., 2001)
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Broken Helix (Mid-List Press, 1997), winner of the Mid-List Press First
Series Award
Sober on a Small Plane (Wind Publications, 1995)
Note for a Missing Friend (Slapering Hol, 1991), winner of the Slapering
Hol Press Chapbook Competition
NEA Fellowship
Eric Bliman
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Travel & Leisure (Poetry Society of America, 2012), winner of the
National Chapbook Fellowship
Instructor, Penn State Harrisburg
Rebekah Bloyd
(Ph.D., 1993)
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Seabook (Medúza Press, 2000)
Handsome (Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2011)
Sister Island (Blackberry Press, 1987)
Senior Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
Murray Bodo
(Ph.D., 1991)
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Something Like Jasmine (Tau Publishing, 2012)
Wounded Angels (Blissfool Books, 2009)
The Earth Moves at Midnight and Other Poems (St. Anthony Messenger
Press, 2003)
Author of 17 books
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Visiting Professor, Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University
Franciscan priest
Joshua Butts
(Ph.D., 2009)
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New to the Lost Coast (Gold Wake Press, 2014)
To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar (Pudding House Publications, 2006)
Instructor, Columbia College of Art & Design
Susan Streeter Carpenter
(Ph.D., 2005)
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Riders on the Storm (Bottom Dog Press, 2010)
Associate Professor, Bluffton University
Will Clemens
(Ph.D., 2002)
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All Shook Up: Collected Poems about Elvis (University of Arkansas
Press, 2001)
Cynthia Crane
(Ph.D., 1987)
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Divided Lives (St Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 2000)
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash
Erica Dawson
(Ph.D., 2010)
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The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014)
Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser, 2007), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry
Prize, named Best Debut by Contemporary Poetry Review
Assistant Professor, University of Tampa
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Poetry Editor, Tampa Review
Sarah Domet
(Ph.D., 2009)
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90 Days to Your Novel (Writer's Digest Books, 2010)
Writing Fellow, Georgia Southern University
Darrin Doyle
(Ph.D., 2006)
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The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin’s, 2010)
Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet: A Love Story (LSU, 2009)
Associate Professor, Central Michigan University
Rebecca Morgan Frank
(Ph.D., 2012)
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Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012), finalist for the
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
Editor of Memorious
Stephen Frech
(Ph.D., 1999)
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A Palace of Strangers Is No City (Červená Barva Press, 2011)
The Dark Villages of Childhood (Midwest Writing Center, 2009),
winner of the Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Prize
If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness (White Pine Press, 2001), winner
of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State University Press,
1996), winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Contest
Associate Professor, Milliken University
Molly Gaudry
(M.A., 2008)
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We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2010), finalist for the Asian
American Literary Awards for Poetry, nominated for the McLaughlinEsstman-Stearns First Novel Prize
Parts (Mud Luscious Press, 2009)
Co-founding Editor, Twelve Stories
Founder and Creative Director of The Lit Pub
Andrew Grace
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Sancta (Ahsahta, 2012)
Shadeland (Ohio State University Press, 2008), winner of the OSU
Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
A Belonging Field (Salt, 2002)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
Juliana Gray
(Ph.D., 2001)
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Roleplay (Dream Horse Press, 2012), winner of the Orphic Poetry
Book Prize
The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing, 2005)
History in Bones (Kent State University Press, 2001), winner of the
Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
Associate Professor, Alfred University
Ryan Guth
(Ph.D., 2002)
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Body and Soul (Lummox Press, forthcoming)
Home Truth (Alsop Review Press, 2006)
Associate Professor, Lambuth University
Beth Gylys
(Ph.D., 1997)
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Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press, 2007)
Spot in the Dark (Ohio State University Press, 2004), winner of the
OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press, 1999), winner of the
Gerald Cable First Book Award
Balloon Heart (Wind Publications, 1997), winner of the Quentin R.
Howard Award
Professor, Georgia State University
Lesley Jenike
(Ph.D., 2008)
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Holy Island (Gold Wake Press, 2014)
How We Came Ashore (Dancing Girl Press, 2013)
Ghost of Fashion (WordTech Communications, 2009)
I Dreamed Last Night I Got on a Boat to Heaven and By Some
Chance I Had Brought My Dice Along (Permafrost, 2006), winner
of the Susan Blalock Award
Assistant Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design
Holly Karapetkova
(Ph.D., 2005)
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Words We Might One Day Say (Washington Writers' Publishing
House, 2010), winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Poetry Contest
Author of over 20 children's books and teacher resources
Assistant Professor, Marymount University
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
(Ph.D., 2008)
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The Rub (Elixir Press, 2014), winner of the Editor’s Prize
Aloha Vaudeville Doll (Dancing Girl Press, 2013)
By a Year Lousy with Meteors (Dream Horse Press, 2012), co-written
with Cynthia Arrieu-King, winner of the Dream Horse Press
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Chapbook Prize
Intaglio (Kent State University Press, 2006), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry
Prize
Associate Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design
Gary Leising
(Ph.D., 2003)
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Fastened to a Dying Animal (Pudding House Press, 2010)
Associate Professor, Utica College
Amy Lemmon
(Ph.D., 1997)
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Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation
(Slapering Hol Press, 2012), co-written with Denise Duhamel
ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010), co-written with Denise
Duhamel
Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009)
Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Press, 2008)
Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology
April Lindner
(Ph.D., 1998)
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Catherine (Poppy/Little Brown, 2013)
This Bed Our Bodies Shaped (Able Muse Press, 2012)
Jane (Poppy/Little Brown, 2010)
Skin (Texas Tech University Press, 2002), winner of the Walt
McDonald First Book Poetry Prize
Co-editor of Contemporary American Poetry (Longman/Penguin,
2004)
Professor, Saint Joseph's University
Cate Marvin
(Ph.D., 2003)
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Oracle (W.W. Norton, 2013)
Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande, 2006)
World’s Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001), winner of the Kathryn A.
Morton Prize
Co-editor, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
(Sarabande, 2006)
Whiting Award
Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Kristi Maxwell
(Ph.D., 2010)
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PLAN/K (Gold Wake Press, 2014)
Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011)
Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009)
Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)
Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)
Matt McBride
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Cities Lit by the Light Caught in Photographs (H_NGM_N Books,
2012)
The Space Between Stars (Kent State UP, 2008), winner of the Wick
Poetry Chapbook Competition
Lecturer, Ohio State University
Molly McCaffrey
(Ph.D., 2005)
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How to Survive Graduate School and Other Disasters (Main Street Rag,
2011)
Co-editor, Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to
There (Main Street Rag, 2010)
Instructor and Advisor, Western Kentucky University
Rebecca Meacham
(Ph.D., 2002)
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Let’s Do (University of North Texas Press, 2004) winner of the
Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, Barnes & Noble Discover
Great New Writers selection
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Tessa Mellas
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Lungs Full of Noise (University of Iowa Press, 2013), winner of the
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Lecturer, Ohio State University
Jim Murphy
(Ph.D., 2000)
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Heaven Overland (Kennesaw State University Press, 2009)
The Memphis Sun (Kent State University Press, 2000), winner of the
Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
Associate Professor, University of Montevallo
Kristin Naca
(M.A., 2000)
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Bird Eating Bird (Harper Perennial, 2009), winner of the National
Poetry Series
Assistant Professor, Macalester College
Kevin Oberlin
(Ph.D., 2007)
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Spotlit Girl (Kent State University Press, 2009), winner of the Wick
Poetry Chapbook Competition
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash
Kelcey Parker
(Ph.D., 2006)
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Liliane’s Balcony (Rose Metal Press, 2013)
For Sale by Owner (Kore Press, 2011), winner of the Next Generation
Indie Book Award in Short Fiction
Associate Professor, Indiana University South Bend
Sarah Perrier
(Ph.D., 2006)
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Nothing Fatal (University of Akron Press, 2010)
Just One of Those Things (Kent State University Press, 2003), winner
of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
Assistant Professor, Point Park University
David James Poissant
(Ph.D., 2011)
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The Heaven of Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
Lizard Man, (RopeWalk Press, 2012), winner of the RopeWalk Press
Editor's Fiction Chapbook Prize
Winner of the Playboy College Fiction Contest
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
Phoebe Reeves
(M.A., 2004)
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The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate (Pecan Grove Press, 2010)
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
Michael Rerick
(Ph.D., 2010)
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morefrom (Alice Blue Books, 2012)
In Ways Impossible to Fold (Marsh Hawk Press, 2009), winner of the
Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
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X-Ray (Flying Guillotine Press, 2008)
Chuck Rybak
(Ph.D., 2003)
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</war> (Main Street Rag, 2013)
Tongue and Groove (Main Street Rag, 2007)
Liketown (Pudding House, 2007)
Nickel and Diming My Way Through (Wind Publications, 2005),
winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
C. Lynn Shaffer
(Ph.D., 2001)
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Life Spiral (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
Persistence of Vision (Wind Publications, 2008), winner of the
Morehead State University New Writers Award
Associate Professor, Maysville Community College
Virginia Slachman
(Ph.D., 1996)
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The Lost Ode (Charles Towne Publishing, 2013)
Inside Such Darkness (Tiger Bark Press, 2010)
Heidegger’s Temple (CustomWords, 2003)
Associate Professor, Principia College
Adam Sol
(Ph.D., 2000)
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Complicity (McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
Jeremiah, Ohio (House of Anansi, 2008)
Crowd of Sounds (House of Anansi, 2003), winner of the Trillium
Award for Poetry
Jonah's Promise (Mid-List Press, 2000), winner of the Mid-List Press
First Series Award
Associate Professor, Laurentian University
Shawn Sturgeon
(Ph.D., 1998)
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Either/Ur (River City Publishing, 2002)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, American College of
Management and Technology (Croatia)
Nathan Swartzendruber
(M.A., 2011)
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Opaque Projectionist (Dos Madres Press, 2009)
Liz Tilton
(Ph.D., 2008)
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Salt (Kent State University Press, 2009), winner of the Wick Poetry
Chapbook Competition
Cincinnati’s Historic Findlay Market (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)
Kevin Walzer
(Ph.D., 1996)
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Austere Offices (Word Press, 2005)
Greater Circles (Word Press, 2001)
The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of
Poetry’s Place in American Culture (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001)
The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism (Story
Line Press, 1998)
The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines (Story Line Press, 1996)
Living in Cincinnati (Cincinnati Writers’ Project, 1995)
Senior Editor, WordTech Communications
Jillian Weise
(Ph.D., 2009)
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The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2013), winner of the James
Laughlin Award and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
The Colony (Soft Skull Press, 2010)
The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
Translating the Body (All Nations Press, 2006)
Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Caki Wilkinson
(Ph.D., 2011)
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The Stone Museum (Persea Books, 2014), winner of the Lexi
Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award
Circles Where the Head Should Be (University of North Texas
Press, 2011), winner of the Vassar Miller Prize
2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
Lisa Williams
(M.A., 1992)
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Gazelle in the House (New Issues Press, 2014)
Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, 2008), winner of the
Barnard Women Poets Prize
The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State University Press, 1998),
winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award
Rome Prize in Literature
NEH Associate Professor, Centre College
Ruth Williams
(Ph.D., 2013)
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Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012)
Assistant Professor, William Jewell College