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 best way to see the most recent accomplishments is to follow us on social media, where we try to post about everyone’s good news.

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Books and Plays by Alumni and Students

Exodus Brownlow

  • I’m Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I’ve Known All That I Can?. ELJ Press, 2023.
  • Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves. Fiction chapbook. Ethel Zine and Press, 2023.

Katrina Byrd

  • Consenting Adults. Produced by Bay Saint Louis Little Theater, Bay of Saint Louis, MS, March 2018.
  • “Mammygram” performed in Liberty Mississippi and in Pearl Mississippi by breast cancer survivor and Mississippi University of Women Alum. Cynthia Stuart

Christian J. Collier

  • Greater Ghost, Four Way Books, 2024
  • The Gleaming of the Blade, Bull City Press, 2022

Ren Ellis

Beth Kander-Dauphin

  • I Made it Out of Clay, Mira Books, 2024
  • Do Not Eat This Book, Sleeping Bear Press, 2023
  • Plays: Hazardous Materials, The Bottle Tree, Running Mates (or, The Family Party), See Jane Quit, Scrambled, Blue, and To The Moon

Karol Lagodzki

  • Controlled Conversations, Milford House Press, 2024

Dani Putney

  • Mix-Mix, Baobab Press, forthcoming, 2025
  • Swallow Whole, Bullshit Press, March 2024, chapbook
  • Dela Torre, Sundress Publications, 2022, e-chapbook
  • Salamat sa Intersectionality, Okay Donkey Press, 2021

Thomas Richardson

  • How To Read, Friendly City Books, 2021

Lauren Rhoades

  • Split the Baby, Belle Point Press, 2025

C. T. Salazar

  • Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking. Acre Books, 2022
  • 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. 

Julie Whitehead

  • Hurricane Baby, Madville Publishing, 2024.