Master of Fine Arts

Current and Former Students

 

Michael NyeMichael Nye’s debut short story collection is Strategies Against Extinction, which will be available from Queen’s Ferry Press in October 2012. He was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, Red Cedar Review, Sou’wester, andSouth Dakota Review, among many others. His work has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in fiction and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is at work on new stories and a novel. He works as the managing editor of The Missouri Review. -

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Jen TappendenJennifer Tappenden is the founding editor of Architrave Press, 2012 Poet Laureate of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, and a Pushcart nominee. Her poems have appeared in Euphony, The Cape Rock, Limestone and elsewhere. Her interview (with Karen Lewis) of Thom Ward for Traffic East magazine was featured on Poetry Daily.

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Christopher CableChristopher Alex Chablé is a writer with a background in Spanish and Latin American Studies. In addition to writing poetry, he researches Chicano / U.S. Latino issues and Native American and Mexican Literatures. His articles and reviews have appeared in publications from ABC-CLIO and Greenwood Press and Indigenous Peoples' Issues and Resources (IPIR). Chablé's translations of news articles to English, Spanish and Portuguese have appeared in IPIR and The Occupied Wall Street Journal. His most recent publication is a Spanish translation of the pastry chapter of a cookbook from St. Louis' SouthSide Day Nursery.

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