We keep hearing great news from our past contributors! Here’s some of what they’ve been up to since publishing with us!
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Since “Zeno’s Invitation” appeared in Grist 4, Chuck Tripi has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and has published widely in literary journals including Boston Review, Louisiana Literature and Poet Lore, and in his collections Carlo and Sophia and Killer Pavement Ahead (Cyberwit, 2013, 2015).
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Jessica Lakritz (Grist 6) is the creator of a multimedia online poetry project called Sex on Sundaze meant to combine two beautiful worlds—the sensual physical world of the human body and the expansive and spacious interior world of poetry. Sex on Sundaze has been featured on the Tin House blog, and she has been interviewed about the project by Bark, a literary blog out of Eastern Washington University’s MFA program.
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Last July, Michael Steinberg (Grist 4) was chosen for an AWP Spotlight Award for representing “AWP’s mission to foster literary achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.”
On June 3, his collection Greatest Hits and Some that Weren’t: Selected Essays and Memoirs 1990-2015 was published by Seahorse Books, and he was chosen to be the judge for the 2016 AWP Book Prize in Literary Nonfiction.
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Grist 7 contributor Allegra Hyde’s short story collection, Of This New World, recently won the John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award and will be published by University of Iowa Press this October!
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Grist 9 contributor Gary McDowell’s third book of poetry, Mysteries in a World that Thinks there Are None, winner of the 2014 Burnside Review Book Award, has just been published by Burnside Review Press, and he’s just found out his book of lyric essays, Caesura: Essays, will be published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions in 2017.
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If you’re a past contributor and want to let us know what you’ve been up to since appearing in Grist, please e-mail Jeremy Reed at jreed79@vols.utk.edu to update us!
Congrats to everyone on their accomplishments!
