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	Leah Norton (2010) and Caroline Lewis (2008) at AWP New York. Leah is from Michigan and Caroline is from Buffalo, New York. Adam McGraw (2009), meets up with his peers at AWP New York in 2008. Adam is from West Virginia.	Who we are… Our students come from all over the country and have previously attended such colleges and universities as Berry College, Bucknell, East Carolina, Eastern Michigan, Emory, Florida State, Fordham, Louisiana State, Mercer University, Mississippi State, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Fredonia, Tulane, UNC-Charlotte, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Washington University at St. Louis, West Virginia University and many more. Most of our students range in age from their twenties to their forties, some completing other graduate degrees before joining our program.
	Ploughshares #92 “The Emerging Writers Issue” Read some of our students’ recent published and award-winning writing.	Writers who publish… Although we don’t expect incoming students to have published their work, since our program began in 2001, our students have been publishing their poems, stories, and essays in many national journals. While she was a student in our program Minal Singh (MFA 2003) was selected for the Ploughshares “Emerging Writers Issue” (winter 2003-2004) for her poem “Hunger Was Coming.” Other GCSU students have published in such journals as Backwards City Review, Big Muddy, Bloom, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Descant, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, International Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, Meridian, Nimrod, Pebble Lake, Poet Lore, Quick Fiction, Rattle, Redivider, River Teeth, Salt Hill, Santa Clara Review, Spinning Jenny, Thema, Touchstone, and many others. Read our students’ recently published work.
	Christina Matthews (2008) and Will Torrey (2010) in New York for AWP 2008. Christina recently published poems in Descant and Big Muddy. Meredith Dodson (2009) and Nathan Jackson Tucker (2010) after a reading by Antonya Nelson in February 2008. Meredith, Ashleigh, and Shawnsey at the Brick in Downtown Milledgeville	A Community… One of the highlights of our community of writers is the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) national conference. MFA students have attended conferences in New Orleans (2002), Baltimore (2003), Chicago (2004), Vancouver, British Columbia (2005), Austin (2006), Atlanta (2007), and New York (2008). In 2009 we head to Chicago, where our program will again be a major sponsor of the AWP conference. On campus, students gather for social events such as the annual MFA Chili Cook-off, the MFA Spring Bar-B-Q, and the end-of-the-year English Department Disco Party. Students also sponsor the Red Earth Reading series, a coffee house event featuring both MFA and senior level undergraduate writers. Students also meet and work with many visiting writers. Leah Norton (2010), Carrie Anne Tocci (2009), Shawnsey Rudolph (2009), Meredith Dodson (2009), and Ashleigh Eisinger (2009) pose at an MFA party gathering at Marty Lammon’s house.
	Miller Oberman won a 2005 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Matt Siegel (2007) recently published stories in American Drivel, Skive Quarterly, Redivider, Pearl, Pebble Lake Review, and So To Speak. Would you like to learn more about our program from our students? Send an email to mfa@gcsu.edu	Recent Accomplishments… Creative Writing students at GCSU have won national AWP Intro Awards and, in 2005, MFA candidate Miller Oberman (2006) was awarded a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Recently, Rachael Peckham (2004) was selected for the Ph.D. program at Ohio University, where she was the only candidate selected that year to complete a creative dissertation in nonfiction. She has since published her creative nonfiction and poetry in many national journals. Other students have also pursued doctoral work, including Michael Fischer (Western Michigan University), Scott Sands (Southern Illinois University), Sara Hughes (Georgia State University) and Bellee Jones (University of Alabama). Several of our recent graduates have gone on to full-time teaching positions at Tusculum College, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, Western Carolina University, Indiana Wesleyan University, West Virginia University, St. John’s University, Penn State-the Behrend Campus, and Gardner-Webb University. Matt Siegel is an editor for Business Leader Magazine.

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