Jes Gearing
- Presented paper How Then Shall We Dwell: Roger Deakin and the New British Nature Writing at the Rice University graduate symposium Shifting Spatialities: The Dynamic Boundaries of Place and Space on October 2, 2009
- Appeared in a local Channel 7 Morning Show presentation on cooking, seen here
Joseph Hasinger
- Bones in Jersey Devil Press
- Dog Streets in The Citron Review
- Well, I Heard You Love Me in Stanley the Whale
Brianna McPherson
- Fiction Writers Have it Easy in Mason’s Road
Dan Nemes
- After 20 years, Salvadorans remember slain martyrs in National Catholic Reporter
Kristina Newberry
- Someplace Else in The Southern Review
Jess Quinlan
- Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, runner-up, 2011
Meighan Sharp
- Habitats in Best New Poets
- Keeping Company and Naming Grace in The Spoon River Poetry Review, nominated for Pushcart Prize
- Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, runner-up, 2011
Lauren Smith
- Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, runner-up, 2011
Gretchen VanWormer
- How I See the Humans by CutBank
Hollins MFA 