Our, students, alumni, and faculty have been busy! Besides completing coursework and working towards degrees, we’ve had the following publications, readings, awards, etc. The list will be updated as more information comes in.

Students

Tracy Pitts

• “Frosted Glass,” VampCatMag, October 23, 2019.

Lauren Rhoades

• “The Smell,” CeaseCows, January, 2020. 

Randi Sanders

• “Cattle Egret,” YourDailyPoem.com, July 25, 2019.
• “Eat Your Feelings,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2019.
• “One Poem,” Nine Muses Poetry, November 2019.

Julie Whitehead

• “A Reinvention on Roller Skates,” CoveyClub, January 2020.
• “Social Security was a lifeline when disability derailed career.”Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Dec. 16, 2019
• “What Has My Depression Taught Me?” DefyingShadows.com, January 2019.
• Book review. Mississippi Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review of Books, December 2018.
• “Navigating the Judgement Roller Coaster,” DefyingShadows.com, December 2018.
• Subtle Mental Health Symptoms You May Ignore,” DefyingShadows.com, November 2018.
• Book Review. Atticus Finch: The Biography, New Orleans Review of Books, October 2018.
• “Running Away From Home,” Running Wild Novella Anthology, Volume 2, Part 2, Running Wild Press, October 2018.
• “Too Quiet,” Mississippi Philogical Association, Jackson State University, March 2018.
• “Explaining My Bipolar to My Child,” DefyingShadows.com, February 2018.
• “Fatigue and Depression,” DefyingShadows.com, January 2018.
• “This Side of Heaven”, China Grove Press, Winter 2017
• “Four Signs Your Therapy is Working” DefyingShadows.com November 2017
• “Terms of the Trade” Cobalt Review, November 2017
• “Dealing With Traumatic Event Anniversaries” DefyingShadows.com October 2017
• “Picture Perfect” DefyingShadows.com. September 2017
• “46 Reasons Why Not”, DefyingShadows.com. June 2017
• “Laurie Parker” and “Cotton District”, Mississippi Encyclopedia, University Press of Mississippi. May 2017.
• “Obsession”, DefyingShadows.com. May 2017.
• “Disclosure of Mental Illness”, DefyingShadows.com. May 2017
• “Bass-Ackwards”, Zanyzygotereview.com. April 11, 2017
• “What Real Love Looks Like”, DefyingShadows.com. April 2017
• “Cathy Hegman”, Delta Magazine, March/April 2017.
• “How Not To Comfort Someone in Crisis.” DefyingShadows.com. March 2017
• “On The Ward Again”, Conclave: Voices From The Edge , Spring 2017
• “How to Get a Proper Diagnosis in an Information-Rich Environment,”
• DefyingShadows.com. February 2017
• “New Years and Remission”, DefyingShadows.com. January 2017.
• “Carrie Fisher and Stigma”, DefyingShadows.com. January 2017
• “Joy In the Midst of the Clouds”, Finalist in Nonfiction, New Southerner Literary Contest, December 2016
• “Dear Younger Me” DefyingShadows.com, November 2016
• “My Biggest Fear”, DefyingShadows.com, October 2016.
• “Thoughts on Neurodivergence”, DefyingShadows.com, September 2016.
• “A Day In the Life of Julie” DefyingShadows.com. August 2016
• “What My Bipolar Brain Feels Like On the Inside” DefyingShadows.com. July 2016
• “My Dad and Mental Illness” DefyingShadows.com, June 2016
• “Dear Bob” DefyingShadows.com, May 2016
• “Crazy Days”, Gordian Review, Inaugural issue
• “Looking For Home” NoiseMeduim.com, April 22, 2016
• “Bullying: From One Who Lived Through It.” DefyingShadows.com, April 2016
• “Mental Illness and Pregnancy” DefyingShadows.com, March 2016
• “My Experience in a Psych Ward” DefyingShadows.com, January 2016
• “11 Small Victories Over Depression” DefyingShadows.com, January 2016
• “The Bipolar Diary: Julie’s Story” DefyingShadows.com. December 2015
• “Freedom to Breathe”, Finalist, New Southerner Literary Contest, December 2015
• “What Julie Is Thankful For” DefyingShadows.com, October 2015.
• “You Are Not Your Illness” DefyingShadows.com, September 2015
• “Mental Illness Comes in Many Shapes and Sizes” DefyingShadows.com Sept. 2015
• “Bipolar Disorder at the Office” DefyingShadows.com, August 2015
• “Julie’s Story” DefyingShadows.com, August 2015
• “Hi. My Name Is Julie.” DefyingShadows.com, August 2015

Alumni

Exodus Brownlow

• Fiction Reader, Split Lip Magazine
• Fiction Contributing Editor, Barren Magazine.
• “Mr. Frogman.” Booth, July 2020
• Reader, CLMP Firecracker Awards, 2019.
• “Characters in Development,” Metamorphosis, Sept. 2019
• “The Black Hawk Beast and the One that Wails,” Barren Magazine, issue 6, 2019.
• “When it Gets Cold in the South, Your Mama Calls Mama to You,” The Parentheses Journal, Sept. 2019.
• “Stories From My Grandma’s Body,” Barren Magazine, issue 10, July 2019.
• “Six Feet, Bleek, and Buried,” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, April 2019.
• “Tears for the War Heroes, for the Philosophy Majors, for the Mamas Who Fight Against the Dust,” Rigorous Magazine, April 2019.
• “Iconoclastic,” Crag, 2019
• “I am Your Protagonist” in Literary Orphans Journal, Issue 33.
• “We Deserve More Black Stories with Happy Endings,” Electric Literature, January 2019.
• “Love and Nappiness” in Luna Luna (April 2016).
• “Iron Man” in Indicia 1.2 (Winter 2016): 29-31
• “Party,” “Second Meeting,” “Questions,” and “On the Set.” Valley Voices 14.1. (Spring 2014): 72-78.

Katrina Byrd

• “Saving Grace: Chapter 1,” Embark Literary Journal, April 2019
• Consenting Adults. Produced by Bay Saint Louis Little Theater, Bay of Saint Louis, MS, March 2018.
• “Change,” (DIS)Ability Anthology, Emily Dorroffer, Ed., March 2018.
• Featured Blogger at AWP for The Business of Being a Writer blog by Jane Friedman. March 2018.
• “Blessed Are They.” Disappointed Housewife. January 2018
• “Secret Santa.” HerStory Blog. December 29, 2017
• “Red Hell Strut” Monkeybicycle November 2017
• “The Written Word Workshop” presented at USM Gulf Park Campus Long Beach, MS July 2017
• “Honey, What Are You Saying?” paper presented at Then Henry David Thoreau Society Concord, MA July 2017
• “The Slumber Chamber” creative work presented at the Bodies of Works Conference held at USM Hattiesburg campus Hattiesburg, MS March 2017
• “Hooked” one-act play, Mississippi Writes Original, Bay St. Louis Little Theatre Tennessee Williams Festival, March 24-25, 2017.
• “Exposed” Flash Fiction In Flight Literary Magazine.
• “Justice is Blind” and “Mammygram” POMPA 2016.
• “Consenting Adults” 10-Minute Play. MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, Raleigh North Carolina as part “Reclamation,” August 12, 2016.
• “All Apples are not Red,” Conference on the Liberal Arts, Jackson State University.
• “Mammygram” performed in Liberty Mississippi and in Pearl Mississippi by breast cancer survivor and Mississippi University of Women Alum. Cynthia Stuart
• Poetry reading, Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus MS, February 12, 2016

Courtney Clark

• “Picking Up the Pieces,” one-act play, Mississippi Writes Original, Bay St. Louis Little Theatre Tennessee Williams Festival

Allison Chestnut

• “A Spinster Praises Segregation.” Foliate Oak. October 2016
• “Family Exits: A Tryptic” forthcoming in Echo
• “Learning to Fish” forthcoming in Saw Palm
• “Dies Ire (We Interrupt Our Regular Program)” forthcoming in The Esthetic Apostle
• “Being Still” forthcoming in Sand Hills
• “Vita Brevis, Ars Longa.” forthcoming in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
• “Voice Lessons” forthcoming in Minerva Rising
• “To Spare the Children Kindness Lies” The Windhover 22.2, August 2018
• “Queen for a Day” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
• Honorable mention AWP Intro Journals Project, Poetry for “County Road 518 at Country Road 24”
• “Ice, Ice Baby: A Look at Imagery in Moira Crone’s The Ice Garden,” Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus MS, February 13, 2016
• Poetry reading at Jones County Junior College, April 12, 2016
• Poetry reading at SCMLA, Dallas Fall 2016
• Nominated for poetry award SCMLA, Jacksonville Fall 2016

Xenia Dylag

• “Spitball,” The Molotov Cocktail, 2019. 
• “Babcia’s Old Gold,” Mortar Magazine, Issue 3, February 2018.

Ren Ellis

• Deleted Dreams. Self-published novel. 2020. 4.5 star review at Self-Publishing Review.
• “Deluge,” Golden Walkman Magazine, January 30, 2020. 
• “Mandarin Lessons” The Human Touch Journal, Volume 10 (2017): 76-77.
• “Tough Girls Wear Teal.” Route 7 Review. Issue V. 2017

Jeanna Graves

• “Traffic Jam” 3rd Place One-Act Play. William Faulkner Literary Competition. 2016
• Poetry reading at Jones County Junior College, April 12, 2016

Kathleen Galvin

• “Gumball” and “February Dusting.” Cimarron Review, Issue 198 / Winter 2017, front and back cover art, documentary photography, (Feb. 28, 2017)
• “Walking is Not Walking.” UnLost Journal, Issue 9, poem and documentary photograph (May 29, 2017) _online
• “Neighborhood Watch,” “Framed,” “Solar Flares,” “Green Field,” “Small-town Prometheus,” “Riddle Me,” “Lone Star,” and “Stop Jesus.” Cowboy Jamboree, Issue 3.1 / Fall 2017, documentary photography: (Sept. 12, 2017)
• “Ball Lightning,” “Run, Red Velvet,” and “Pines in the Fog, City Cemetery, Louisville Georgia.” The Tishman Review, Vol. 3, Issue 4 / Oct. 2017, documentary photography, (Oct. 30, 2017) 
• “Great Egrets.” Pithead Chapel, Vol. 6, Issue 11, cover art documentary image: (Nov. 2017) 
• “Carrying on the Family Legacy at Bryant’s Gin.” Georgia Backroads Magazine, Winter 2017, nonfiction and documentary photography essay (December 2017)
• “Roadside Rescue.” Georgia Backroads Magazine, Winter 2017, nonfiction and documentary photography essay (December 2017) 
• “Mortars,” “Say Again,” “A.P.O.,” “The Jungle,” and “Disabused.” Xavier Review, Vol. 37, Issue 2, five poems accompanied by a documentary photograph: (December 2017)
• “Arts of War” feature story “Kathleen Galvin’s War Poetry.” VVA Veteran, a magazine of the Vietnam Veterans of America (January 10, 2018) _online
• “Eden Church Ribbon of Windows, Louisville, Georgia,” Mud Season Review, Issue 36: Non-fiction, documentary photography,  (Feb. 2018) 
• “If You Can Read This You Are in Range” Zócalo Public Square, poem (Jun. 8, 2018) 
• “Temptation to Trespass” Terrain, nonfiction and documentary photography essay and audio recording: (Jun. 21, 2018)
• “Gift with Purchase” Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Issue 10.2, short fiction, (Jul. 2018)
• “Dont Want Other Numpty’s in Mkt to Know” Shooter Literary Magazine, Dirty Money Issue, (Aug. 2018)
• “The Self-Propelled Sprinkling Apparatus of Mae Lamb Road” Georgia Backroads Magazine, November 2018, nonfiction and documentary photography essay (nine photographs), including cover image and feature story, (Winter 2018) 
• “Coming Down South” Nowhere Magazine, nonfiction and documentary photography essay, forthcoming Winter 2018.

Beth Kander-Dauphin

• Original/Syn Trilogy, Owl House Books, beginning Sept. 2018
• Hazardous Materials. Equity Library Theatre 2017 Selection.
• Host Playwright. Ashland New Plays Festival, October 2017
• “The Blue” world premiere with The New Colony, August 2017
• The Kilroys List Honorable Mention (“The Bottle Tree”), 2015 & 2016
• Ashland New Plays Festival 2016 (“Hazardous Materials”) and 2015 (“The Bottle Tree”)
• “The Bottle Tree” world premiere at Stage Left Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, October-November 2016; script pending publication with Stage Rights (Los Angeles) 
• “The Bottle Tree” premier at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington KY, June 17, 2016
• Featured playwright, BechdelFest 2016, Broken Nose Theatre, Chicago (“One in Six”)
• Playwright-At-Work for Chicago Theatre Week 2016
• One Minute Play Festival selection (“Actions Speak Louder”) 2016
• The Ruckus Play Festival selection (“Hazardous Materials”), June 2016
• “Running Mates” world premiere at Fondren Theatre Workshop, Jackson MS, February 2016; multiple productions of “Running Mates,” represented by Stage Rights of Los Angeles, continue nationwide 
• Multiple productions of “Running Mates,” represented by Stage Rights in Los Angeles
• Playwright on Display for Chicago Theatre Week, January, 2016
• Stage Left Leapfest selection (“The Bottle Tree”), July 2015
• The New Colony Writer’s Room Cohort 2.0, 2015
• Stage Left Leapfest selection (“The Bottle Tree”), July 2015
• The New Colony Writer’s Room Cohort 2.0, 2015

Ashley Hewitt

• “I Found a Better Way.” Deep South. February 2020
• “The Little Yellow House.” Abstract Magazine. February 2018

Robin Taylor Murphy

• Guest Editor, 166 Palms: A Literary Anthology, January 2020.
• “Me and Gabriel” 166 Palms: A Literary Anthology, 2017.

Dani Putney

• “This work of art is,” The Racket, February 9, 2021.
• “Halo-halo” and Interview. Rappahannock Review, December 11, 2020.
• “Representation in the Borderlands” (later retitled “Repping in the Borderlands”), Camas, December 2020.
• “Father Gone” (later retitled “Father’s Estate”) & “Memories of Sacramento,” The Chaffin Journal, November 1, 2020.
• “Dear Jeremy,” Alien Magazine, August 21, 2020.
• “Coordinates for My Dad’s Ashes,” Figure 1, August 10, 2020.
• “An Expanse of Dirt Outside Fernley, NV” (later retitled “Fernley, NV Wilds”) & “The Spelunker’s Adventure Book.” FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, August 1, 2020.
• “Academic Unraveling,” “Corporate Hierarchy,” & “SB254: Revises provisions relating to carbon reduction”; Sons and Daughters. June 15, 2020.
• “Angeligender,” “Michelangelo,” & “Technological Dismemberment”; LandLocked. May 7, 2020; pp. 54–56,
• “Heart, Wine, and Desert,” Tributaries, The Fourth River, April 8, 2020.
• “Asian Bones,” Glassworks Magazine, March 1, 2020.
• “Don’t Freeze with Me,” Tule Review, February 22, 2020.
• “Pauli Exclusion,” Dovecote Magazine, February 6, 2020.
• “Cybernetic Impromptu” & “OCD,” Thin Air Online, January 13, 2020.
• “Milk,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, January 1, 2020.
• “What the Ocean Taught Me.” Wend, December 10, 2019, p. 22.
• “Bobby and the Princess,” Route 7 Review, December 5, 2019,
• “Pretty Edges,” Cold Mountain Review, November 11, 2019.
• “Imago” & “My Mom Was a Picture Bride,” Foothill, November 8, 2019, pp. 22–24.
• “Berm,” My Loves, Ghost City Press, November 2, 2019.
• “Dust Storm,” Helen, October 21, 2019.
• “Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism,” The Matador Review, October 2, 2019.
• “PDX Tote Bag Aesthetic and New Year’s Eve Expectations,” Queer Around the World Too, Qommunicate Publishing, 2019, pp. 88–89.
• “Wildman,” Nightingale & Sparrow, August 15, 2019.
• “Nevada,” Mojave Heart Review, July 1, 2019.
• “Post-apocalyptic,” “Salamat for Intersectionality,” and “They Call It “LGBT Family Building’”; Cathexis Northwest Press, June 28, 2019; includes interview.
• “Math Class,” detritus, June 28, 2019. 
• “Desert Play Date,” Mura, June 22, 2019.
• “Freedom in Six Parts,” “Gates of Paradise,” and “Potato Bugs”; Empty Mirror, June 14, 2019.
• “Advanced Studies,” Mura, June 7, 2019.
• “Filipinx” (nominated for Best of the Net 2019) and “Shape,” Juke Joint Magazine, May 30, 2019. 
• “Waiter,” Red Eft Review, May 17, 2019.
• “Evening Wear Realness: and “Miscegenation Blues,” Brine Literary, January 1, 2019, pp. 25-6.
• “Daddy,” An Anthology of Emerging Poets, Z Publishing House, April 2018.
• “Poetry Is Not Dead,” The Nevada Sagebrush, April 12, 2016.
• “Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Meaning in the Difference—No, ‘Difference,’” The Montag, April 2016, pp. 143-50. 
• “Capitalism Isn’t for Birds,” “Merry-go-round,” “Toyland,” and “Where the Trails of Our Bodies Meet”; Loose Leaf,  2016.
• “Poet and Tango” (later retitled “Eureka” and “Twilit Tango,” respectively), Page & Spine, December 18, 2015.
• “A Token Isn’t Worth Anything,” Feminist Spaces, December 2015.
• “The World Is a Queer, Queer Place,” The Nevada Sagebrush, October 20, 2015.

Tammie Rice

• Intern with Carolina Wren Press, Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 and Reader for the Bakwin Award
• “purple pendelums” Haiku Journal, Issue 45. 2016.
• “perfect statues” ThreeLine Poetry.” Issue 38, 2016.
• “We Stand Here.” NatureWriting online 2016
• “In Dreams I Remember” deLugeJournal, Issue 2.1, Fall 2016.
• “Lessons In Laughter” NinthLetter, Winter 2017

Thomas Richardson

• “Grading School,” “Eupora High School Gym, 2002” and “Reading Shakespeare with Teenagers” published in POMPA 2017.
• Poetry Reading, Mississippi Philological Association, Itta Bena MS, February 11, 2017
• “Self-Portrait as Sacrifice on the Diamond.” Poem of the Day in Deep South Magazine’s National Poetry Month Celebration 2016
• “Elegy for Matthew and Jonathan” and “How to Read in Gastonia, North Carolina” Cantos 2016
• “Artists in Revision” Performance at Columbus Arts Council, June 2016
• Contributing Editor, Dirty Paws Poetry Review—first publication is feature on Jaqueline Trimble.
• STAR teacher 2015-16 and 2017-18. New Hope High School
• Poetry Reading, Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus MS, February 13, 2016

C. T. Salazar

• American Cavewall Sonnets. Bull City Press. 2021
• Forty Stitches Sewing a Body Against a Ramshackle Night. Animal Heart Press. 2020
• This Might Have Meant Fire. Inch #39.  Bull City Press. June 2019.
• “You called me castaway and I called you” in Cosmonauts Avenue. Forthcoming March 2018
• “Lover, the Lord has left us” in The Tampa Review. Forthcoming Issue 55
• “All the bones at the bottom of the Rio Grande” and “Incident number to be determined” in Ink & Nebula, January 2018.
• “Barnburner” and “Slaughter and Ritual Knife” in The Matador Review. January 2018
• “Self portrait as headless John the Baptist hitchhiking” in Bad Pony Magazine. December 2017
• Founding Editor. Dirty Paws Review 2017.
• “Great Blue Heron” in The Harpoon Review. October 2017
• “I hold the wolf by the ears” in FLARE: the Flagler Review. Summer 2017
• “Art of Sinking” in The Broke Bohemian. Spring 2017
• AWP Intro Journals Project winner in Poetry, 2017 for “Lover the Lord Has Left Us” 

Celest Schuler

• “Searching,” Feminist Space Camp Magazine, November, 2019.
• “The Change Before Birth,” Feminist Space Camp Magazine, September, 2019.

Faculty

Kendall Dunkelberg

• [Swallows swoop low], [Memory still], and [In the dry ravine] forthcoming in Haiku Page
• “La Llamada (The Call)”  Ekphrastic Review (March 7, 2018)
• “Birdsongs” Tar River Poetry. 2018.
• [Mayfly carcasses] Asahi Haikuist Network. Forthcoming, May 2018.
• “Poem about the economy,” “If a bird tweets in the forest,” and “Passion Flower.” Postcard Poems & Prose.
• Crossvine trumpets] Asahi Haikuist Network (October 6, 2017)
• [Beside the fountain] Asahi Haikuist Network (October 20, 2017)
  “Hidden.” About Place 4.3. 2017.
• A Writer’s Craft: multi-genre creative writing, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017
• Barrier Island Suite, Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2016.
• Poetry Reading, Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus MS, February 13, 2016
• “Natchez.” Down to the Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River. Ed. Philip C. Kolin and Jack B Bedell. Hammond, LA: Louisiana Literature Press. 2015: 41
• “Undulant Fever,” “Asylum Roads,” and “Ocean Springs.” Poetry South 7. 2015: 34-37.
• “The Little Room” and “Father of Waters.” Valley Voices 15.2. (2015): 7-9.
• “Thorns.” The Cape Rock 43.1. (Summer 2015): 27
• “Great Spirit Road,” “Nullah,” “Road to Shu,” and “The Cottage.” The Texas Review 36.1/2. (Spring/Summer 2015): 102-106

Mary Miller

• Always Happy Hour: Stories New York: Liveright/Norton 2017. 
• “Big Bad Love.” The Seagull Book of Stories. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, December 2017. 
• “‘Twas the Night before Christmas.” Hobart, December, 2017. Online. Internet. 
• “Stakeout.” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, November 19, 2017. Online. Internet.
• “Dear McSweeneys.” McSweeney’s Quarterly 49, May 2017: 10-11.
• “Uphill.” Mississippi Noir. Ed. Tom Franklin. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic, August, 2016. 
• “The 37.” Joyland, February, 2016. Online. Internet.
• “Little Bear.” Mississippi Review, winter, 2016: 40-42.
• “Gift Horse Gone, a Review of Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder.” The New York Times Book Review, September 13, 2015: 13.
• “The Final Days of Graceland Too.” Oxford American, July 23, 2015. Online. Internet.

Kris (T. K.) Lee

• To Square a Circle. Portland, OR: Unsolicited Press, 2018.
• Paper Thin, drama/one-act, produced through Starkville Community Theatre for the Mississippi Theatre Association Festival, December 2017-January 2018
• An Earnest Woman, drama/full-length, professional reading through Arkansas Repertory Theatre, September 2018, pending a possible production
• Sindication, (formerly Dipping Birds), Finalist, critically renowned Manhattan Downtown Urban Arts Fringe Festival, November 2018
• “Awake.” First Place, Adult Short Story. William Faulkner Literary Competition 2016.
• “Cleanliness.” “In the Round,” and “frogism.” the Alembic Literary Journal, Summer/Fall 2016
• “Blue Ribbon Woman.” The Binnacle, Summer/Fall 2016
• “Particular Habits.” “Of Monsters,” and “Riesling d’etre” in the Carolina Quarterly Review, Summer 2016
• “Mimic.” Serving House Journal
• “Pathology.”  Studio One
• “The Widow’s Ox.” in Deep South Magazine, Spring 2016
• Fiction Reading, Mississippi Philological Association, February 12, 2016
• About the Baby. selected for inaugural festival of the Opera House Playfest, Spring 2016
• Bob and the Tree, selected for staged reading/literary conference, Spring 2017
• Joe McCabe Memorial Playwriting Award, sponsored through the West Virginia Writers Conference, Spring 2016
• Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award in Poetry, Fall 2015