Kelly Sundberg continues her career as a PhD Candidate in Ohio University’s Creative Nonfiction program this coming Fall. She also has an essay, “Mornings, on the Ranch” forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review.

Sarah Einstein has a two newly published essays: “When I Lived in Manhattan” in Fringe, and “A Meditation on Love” in The Fiddleback. Her first fiction piece(!), “Walking and Falling,” has been published in Sixfold.

Sarah Beth Childers will be teaching creative writing to lucky students at Earlham College in Indiana as Writer-in-Residence, and her book, Shake Terribly the Earth, will be released from Ohio University Press in October.

Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature., co-edited by John Branscum and alumnus Wayne Thomas, will be released in October from Sarabande Books. Read about how this exciting anthology that won the Bruckheimer Award in 2011 came to be, here. Wayne was also awarded the Baltic Residency in Latvia for work on his current novel.

Katie Fallon’s essay, “Rebirth,” about babies and vultures, is forthcoming in the Fall 2013 issue of River Teeth.

Sara Pritchard’s third book of stories, Help Wanted: Female, was published by Etruscan Press in July 2013, and is available in paper and e-book format. An audio version, read by Sara, will be available this fall through audible and through amazon.

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