Inaugural Cohort
Our first class began their MFA in August 2015. Some were full-time and some part-time, so they completed their programs in different years. To honor the fact that they all began with us together, we list them here, rather than with their graduating class above.
Hurricane Baby, Madville Publishing, 2024.
How to Read Friendly City Books, 2021
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
Jeanna Graves, 2018
“Traffic Jam” 3rd Place One-Act Play. William Faulkner Literary Competition. 2016
Honorable mention AWP Intro Journals Project, Poetry for “County Road 518 at Country Road 24”
Consenting Adults Produced by Bay Saint Louis Little Theater, Bay of Saint Louis, MS, March 2018
Hooked one-act play, Mississippi Writes Original, Bay St. Louis Little Theatre Tennessee Williams Festival, March 24-25, 2017
Editor-in-Chief:
The Loveliest Review
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.
Adult Fiction: I Made it Out of Clay, Mira Books, 2024
Children: Do Not Eat This Book, Sleeping Bear Press, 2023
Original Syn (2018), Born in Syn (2019, Syn & Salvation (2020) Homebound Publications
Plays: Hazardous Materials, The Bottle Tree, Running Mates (or, The Family Party), See Jane Quit, Scrambled, Blue, and To The Moon
Tammie Ward Rice, 2017
Creative Writing Studies Organization Board Member, Conference Chair