Highlights
Two MFA alumnae win 2007 Pushcart Prizes
The English department is proud to announce that two former MFA students are published in Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses.
Kristin Kovacic has a non-fiction piece titled, "A Short History of My Breath," which was nominated by The Journal. Kristen is co-editor of Birth: A Literary Companion (University of Iowa Press). Her work has appeared in many magazines and she teaches writing at Pittsburgh's High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She resides in Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband—the poet Jim Daniels—and their children.
Katherine Karlin has a short story titled "Bye-Bye Larry," which first appeared in ZYZZYVA. Katie is currently a doctoral student at the University of Southern California. Her fictions appear in numerous journals and she is at work on a novel.
Another former MFA student, Chris Torockio, received a "Special Mention."
The Pushcart Prize honors the best short fiction, poetry, and essays published in the small presses over the previous year. The man behind the pushcart, Bill Henderson, invites editors to nominate work and publishes the winners in an anthology each year.
