What We’ve Been Up To

• Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry ’23) has published the poem “Without Reperations” on Poets.org.
• Uwem Akpan (faculty) “pens a message of liberation,” as covered by U.S. Catholic Arts and Culture
• The Dream Builders, by Oindrila Mukherjee (Fiction ’04), will be published internationally by Tin House, Scribe, and Harper Collins.
• “The Marvelous Boys of Palo Alto,” an essay by David Leavitt (faculty), has been published by The New Yorker.
• Saara Myrene Raappana (Poetry ’07) has won the the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize for Poetry for her book of Chamber After Chamber, her debut book of poems.
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic, the latest novel by Kevin Wilson (Fiction ’04), was listed as a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and others.
• “Beachcomber Nocturne,” a poem by Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry ’23) was selected by Kwame Davis to be featured in his column in American Life in Poetry, and her translations from the collection Cardiopatías were published by the Los Angeles Review.
• The 2022 Writers Festival—featuring Geoff Dyer, Dana Spiotta, Ishion Hutchinson, Jennifer Moxley, and Andrew Holleran—took place between November 3rd and 5th at Ustler Hall on the UF campus.
• “Until It Doesn’t,” a story by Roy Udeh-Ubaka (Fiction ’24), was named the winner of the 2022 Gerald Kraak Award for writing and photography of African perspectives on gender, social justice, and sexuality.
• Groundcover, a book of poems by Molly Kugel (Poetry ’01), was published by Tolson Books in August 2022
• “Eucalyptus,” a new poem by Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry ’23), was selected to appear in the Best New Poets 2022 Anthology.
• In August 2022, Cassie Fancher (Fiction ’22)’s “By the Way, This Isn’t What I Look Like” was published in the Nashville Review.
• “The Youngest Son,” a story by Janice Whang (Fiction ’23), was published in the Temz Review.
• Roy Udeh-Ubaka (Fiction ’24) was selected by Peter Ho Davies as one of ten winners to be published in the Masters Review Anthology XI in Spring 2023.
• Venice, the latest collection of poetry by Ange Mlinko (faculty), was published by Macmillan in April of 2022 and reviewed in The New York Times.
• David Leavitt (faculty) spent the summer of 2022 in Italy, where he was awarded the Orbetello Book Prize “as a tribute to the author’s career” and the Premio Nino Gennaro, sponsored by the Sicilia Queer 2022 International New Visions Film Fest, in Palermo. He also took part in literary festivals inRome and Gavoi, Sardinia and reviewed Niven Govinden’s Diary of a Film for The New York Times Book Review and Andrew Holleran’s The Kingdom of Sand for Book Post.
• Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry ’23) was named as a finalist in the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Letras Latinas and awarded a Residency Fellowship by the Vermont Studio Center.
• “Dog-Cat,” a short story by Payal Nagpal (Fiction ’23), was published by Simon and Schuster in Cat People, a collection of stories. She was also longlisted for the yet-to-be-announced Bombay Review‘s 30 Under 30 Best South Asian Writer prize.
• The Great River Review listed Matt Vekakis (Poetry ’24) as one of eleven finalists for the 2022 Pink Poetry Prize.
• Jason Walker (Poetry ’23)’s interview with Deborah Diement regarding The Charmed House, her latest book of poems, was published by Dos Madres.
• “Texting,” a short story by Alex Pickett (Fiction ’16), has been published in the Winter 2022 edition of The Southern Review.
• Lures, a collection of poems by Adam Vines (Poetry ’06), has been published by LSU Press.
• Matt Vekakis (Poetry ’24)’s poem “Combine” has been published in the most recent Fall/Winter issue of the Atlanta Review.
• “Flip Turn,” by Michelle Neuffer (Fiction ’20) has been published in Miracle Monocle‘s online issue.
• Booth (Butler University) has published “Big Guy,” by Jake Bartman (Fiction ’23).
• “Syncope,” a short story by August Lah (Fiction ’21) has been listed as a finalist for the New Letters Robert Day Award for Fiction.
• On a recent episode of NPR’s All Things Considered, host Michel Martin spoke with Uwem Akpan (faculty) about his new book, New York, My Village.
• Jake Bartman (Fiction ’23)’s “Night Swim,” originally published in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Ninth Letter, has received an honorable mention in the 2021 Pushcart Prize anthology.
• On November 5th, 2021, MFA@FLA welcomed authors Adam Ehrlich Sachs (Organs of Sense, Inherited Disorders) and Paisley Rekdal (Appropriate: A Provocation, Nightingale)—to deliver a reading at Ulster Hall.
• New York, My Village, by Uwem Akpan (faculty), has been named Fiction Pick of the Month by the Strand, a December selection for Greenlight Bookstore’s First Editions Club, and an Amazon Editor’s Pick.
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• A review by Chris Bachelder (Fiction ’02), of The Lincoln Highway, was published in the New York Times in October 2021.
• Michael Hofmann (faculty)’s translation of Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World will be published by Penguin Random House in June 2022.
• Morgan Thomas’s debut collection, Manywhere, will be published by Macmillan in January 2022.
• Jake Bartman (Fiction ’23) was recently married to Maura Taylor.
• Chloe Lane (Fiction ’17)’s debut novel, The Swimmers, already available in ?New Zealand, will be published internationally by Gallic Books in May 2022.
• Ivory Shoals, a new novel by John Brandon (MFA pending), was published by McSweeney’s in July 2021.
• “On Beckett and Writing With a Brain Disease,” an essay by Emma Smith-Stevens (Fiction ’15), was published by Catapult in June of 2021.
• A story by Jacob Guajardo (Fiction ’18) has been featured in Small Odysseys, a new anthology from Selected Shorts that will be published in March of 2022.
• Neal Hammons (Fiction ’18)’s story “The Legacy Assessment” was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Beloit Fiction Journal, and his story “James Dean as a Catalyst for the Multiverse” is forthcoming in the July/August 2021 issue of Kenyon Review Online.
• Hannah Whiteman (Poetry ’19)’s poem “Callinectes Sapidus” was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Baltimore Review as the winner of the Set in Maryland contest.
• “The Confidante,” a new story by Oindrila Mukherjee (Fiction ’04), is featured in Issue 29 of Ecotone.
• Cheyenne Taylor (Poetry ’21)’s poem, “Harvard Researcher Says Dreams Indicative of Virus Fears,” has been published in the July 9th issue of the Times Literary Supplement.
• Maude Newton (BA ’93)’s debut book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, will be published by Random House in March of 2022.
• As of fall 2020 MFA@FLA  does not require the GRE.
• Gardner Mounce (Fiction, ’20)’s story, “The Antagonizer,” has been published by Hobart Press.
• James Davis (Poetry, ’11) has won the 2021 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Club Q.
• Uwem Akpan’s new novel, New York, My Village, is available for pre-order. It will be published by W. W. Norton & Company on November 2nd.
• Alex Pickett (Fiction, ’16)’s novel, The Restaurant Inspector, has been published by the University of Wisconsin Press. It is available for pre-order here.
• Drew Dickerson (Fiction, ’21) has published a review of Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill  in n+1.
• Sabrina Jaszi (Fiction, ’13) has published a translation of Alisa Ganieva’s short story “Munkar and Nakir” in Words Without Borders.
• Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry, ’23) has been awarded the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award.
• Forester McClatchey (Poetry, ’19)’s poem, “Letter from a Roman Soldier in Gaul,” has been published in Slice Literary.
• How to Ride a Train in the Andes, a chapbook by Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry, ’23), has been selected as a finalist by Black Lawrence Press‘s Black River Prize and Frontier Poetry’s Chapbook Prize and runner up in the 2021 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize, by Beloit Poetry Journal.
• Dan Shurley (Fiction, ’20)’s story, “I’ve Been Away for a While,” is the title story for issue 154 of Granta..
• Nicholas Pierce (Poetry, ’17) is the winner of the 21st annual New Criterion Poetry Prize. His book, In Transit, will be published byCriterion Booksin the fall of 2021.
• Savannah Horton (Fiction, ’21)’s story, “The Shower,” has been named a distinguished story of 2019 by  The Best American Short Stories 2020 anthology.
• “Kennedy,” by Kevin Wilson (Fiction, 2004) has been selected by Curtis Sittenfeld for The Best American Short Stories 2020 anthology. The story was first published in Subtropics.
• The Miraculous, Sometimes, a poetry collection by Meg Shevenock (Poetry, 2006), has been published by Conduit Books & Ephemera.
• David Leavitt’s novel, Shelter in Place, has been published by Bloomsbury. See his website for upcoming online events.
• Ange Mlinko’s poem “Naples, Florida,” published in the November 5th issue of The New York Review of Books, has been recommended by Sam Sifton, along with Julia Child’s tuna salad sandwich recipe, in his weekly “What to Cook This Weekend” column in The New York Times.
• On October 12th, David Leavitt was a clue on Jeopardy!
• How to Ride a Train in the Andes, a chapbook by Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Poetry, ’23), has been selected as a finalist by Black Lawrence Press’s Black River Prize and Frontier Poetry’s Chapbook Prize.
• Lupita Eyde-Tucker’s poem, “Guaranda,” has been published by [PANK] and selected as a finalist for the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.
• The Swimmers, a novel by Chloe Lane (Fiction ’17), has been published by Victoria University Press.
• Uwem Akpan has been selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Black novelists you should read.
• David Leavitt’s Florence: A Delicate Case has been selected as one of The Guardian’s top ten books about Florence.
• Justin Taylor (BA, ‘04)’s memoir, Riding with the Ghost, has been published by Random House.
• The All-Night Sun by Diana Zinna (Fiction, ‘98) has made the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize long list.
• Ange Mlinko reviews A. E. Stallings in the London Review of Books.
• Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart, has just been published by Penguin in the UK. The American edition comes out in December, which will give us plenty of time to read or reread Michael’s translation of Keun’s wonderful Child of All Nations.
• Neal Hammons (Fiction, ’18)’s story “The Future-Ghost of Charles Bronson at Home Depot” has been published in McSweeney’s 60.
• “Water Music,” Ange Mlinko’s essay on the poet Alice Oswald, appears in the July 23rd, 2020 issue of The New York Review of Books.
• David Leavitt has been named a UF Research Foundation Professor for 2020.
• The Italian translation of David Leavitt’s novel Shelter in Place, due out in English from Bloomsbury in October, was published on July 2nd by SEMLibri under the title Il Decoro.If any of you happen to be in Milan (unlikely) you can may see this window display at the Mondadori Superstore in Milan’s Galleria.
• Michael Hofmann’s translation of four previously untranslated Kafka stories appear in The New Yorker under the title“The Rescue Will Begin in its Own Time.”
• James Davis (Poetry, ’11) is the third of our alumni to win the Anthony Hecht Prize. The others are Geoffrey Brock and Matthew Ladd.
• RL Goldberg (Fiction, ’15) interviews Meredith Talusan in The Paris Review online
• Dan Shurley (Fiction, ’20)’s essay, “The Camera Obscura of Gerald Murnane,” has been published in 3:AM Magazine.
• Diane Zinna (Fiction, ’98)’s novel, The All-Night Sun, will be published by Random House this August.
• William Logan’s poem, “Moon, January,” has been published in the New York Review of Books.
• Alumnus Scott Brennan’s poetry collection, Raft Made of Seagull Feathers, has been published by The Main Street Rag
• Jill Ciment features in This American Life episode 689: Digging up the Bones.
• Jill Ciment’s novel The Body in Question, is a New York Times pick for 100 Notable Books of 2019.
• Kevin Wilson’s novel, Nothing to See Here, is a New York Times pick for 100 Notable Books of 2019.
• Erin O’Luanaigh’s poem, “The Awful Truth,” has been published in Agni.
• Kevin Wilson’s (Fiction, 2004) new novel, Nothing to See Here, is the November pick for the Today Show Book Club and receives stellar reviews in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Its screen rights are purchased by 3000 Pictures. The novel was written in 10 days. 
• Ange Mlinko reviews Karen Solie’s The Caiplie Caves in The New York Review of Books.
• Daniel J. O’Malley’s story, “Simon,” has been published in Granta.
• Ange Mlinko’s poem, “Watteau,” has been published in The London Review of Books
• Michael Hofmann’s poem, “The Resident,” has been published in The New York Review of Books.
• Ange Mlinko’s poem, “Sleepwalking in Venice,” originally published in The Paris Review, has been chosen by Major Jackson for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2019.
• An interview with Michael Hofmann appears in the new issue of The Paris Review, as part of its series “The Art of Translation.”
• Angie Mlinko’s essay on Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been published in The New York Review of Books. 
• Emma Smith-Stevens (Fiction, ’13)’s  essay “Let This Be Familiar” appears in the anthology Against Death: 35 Essays on Living. 
• A British edition of William Logan’s most recent book of poems, Rift of Light, has been published by Eyewear Press.
• Savannah Horton (Fiction, ’21)’s story, “The Shower,” has been published in The Cincinnati Review.
• Rachel Khong (Fiction, ’11)’s novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, has been optioned by Universal Pictures with Constance Wu to star.
• Dan Shurley (Fiction, ’20) reviews Ann Quin’s Berg in BOMB.
• Stephen De Búrca (Poetry, ’20) named one of the winners of the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize.
• We are delighted to announce the lineup for the 2019 Florida Writers Festival, October 25-26: Donald Antrim, Devin Johnston, Yiyun Li, and Ada Limón.
•  An excerpt of Jill Ciment’s memoir The Other Half appears in the June 2019 issue of Harper’s.
• David Leavitt writes about European travel and coffee in Vogue Italia.
• David Leavitt writes about novels set in Lisbon on Book Post.
• Jill Ciment’ s new novel, The Body in Question, has been published by Pantheon in June.
• Ange Mlinko reviews Walking Backwards: Poems 1966-2016 by John Koethe for the New York Review of Books.
• Michael Hofmann’s translation of Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky is published by New York Review of Books.
• Ange Mlinko reviews The Collected Stories of Diane Williams in The London Review of Books.
• David Leavitt’s review of Christopher Castellani’s Leading Men appears in the February 24th, 2019 issue of The New York Times Book Review.
• Rachel Khong (Fiction, ’11)’s review of three new memoirs appears in the March 3rd, 2019 issue of The New York Times Book Review.
• Ange Mlinko’s poem “Sleepwalking in Venice,” first published in The Paris Review, was chosen by Major Jackson for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2019. 
• Ange Mlinko wrote about one of her favorite poets Joseph Brodsky for The Sewanee Review.
• William Logan reviewed Leonard Cohen’s The Flame in the New York Times Book Review.
• Ange Mlinko judged Yale’s 2019 Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
• Michael Hofmann will be delivering the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford under the title “Messing Around in Boats – Ranier Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie.”
• David Leavitt taught at the Disquiet International Literary Program in June 2019.
• Ange Mlinko reviewed Hey, Marfa by Jeffrey Yang and Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsea Minnis in The New York Review of Books.
• Alumnus Eric Smith (Poetry, ’09) has become the new managing editor of the Sewanee Review.
• Alumnus Aaron Thier published an article about Denis Johnson on Lit Hub.
• Michael Hofmann served on the jury for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
• Hai-Dang Phan’s (Poetry, ’13) debut collection of poems and translations, Reenactments, will be published this February by Sarabande Books.
• Jacob Guajardo’s “What Got Into Us,” originally published in Passages North, was selected by Roxane Gay for inclusion in the 2018 edition of Best American Short Stories.
• Ange Mlinko taught at Breadloaf and published poems and essays in Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and elsewhere.
• Erick Verran (Poetry, ’21) published an article in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 
• Little Star 7  includes work by Erick Verran (Poetry, ’21), and alumni John Moran, Elliot Reed, and Aaron Thier.
• In October, David Leavitt traveled to Buenos Aires to take part in the Festival Internacional de Literatura Filba.
• MFA@FLA Softball Team Dominates Another Season. The team went 47-0 this season, racking up wins against the entomologists, the etymologists, and the Boxton Red Sox. Said first baseman, Forester McClatchey, “BLOOD! BLOOOOOD!” The team continued its thirteen-year undefeated streak, an unprecedented achievement in the world of intramural softball involving writers. Asked what the team hopes to achieve next year, shortstop Kayla Beth Moore ate a turkey leg and spewed the bones across the pitcher’s mound.
• Alumnus RL Goldberg’s “The Historical Future of Trans Literature” was published in The Paris Review online.
• Dan Grossman (MFA 2021) wrote about Toni Morrison and Moby Dick for Marginalia and Hemingway for Tablet Mag.
• David Leavitt provided (legitimate) commentary to an episode of Ancient Aliens. Link to youtube. His commentary begins at 00:35.
• Rachel Khong’s Goodbye, Vitamin won the California Book Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction. 
• David Leavitt’s story “The David Party,” was selected by Sheila Heti for inclusion in the 2018 edition of Best American Non-Required Reading. A translation of the story into Italian appears in the September issue of Vanity Fair Italia.
• William Logan’s most recent poetry collection, Rift of Light, published by Penguin.
• Ange Mlinko has recently published poems in The New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books. An essay on her work appeared in The London Review of Books. 
• Holly Beth Pratt published her story “Wild Coast” in NER.
• MFA fiction alumna Christina Nichol’s essay “An Account of My Hut” has just been published in the new issue of N+1.
• We are delighted to announce that Uwem Akpan and Camille Bordas will be joining our fiction faculty this fall. See the 2018 MFA@FLA Newsletter for details.
• News Archive
• Fall 2017
• Emma Smith-Stevens’s essay “The Sun” has been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from the Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay.
• Sidney Wade, a recently retired professor in the MFA program, will be giving a reading at Third House Books on Friday, November 10th.
• Rachel Khong and Emma Smith-Stevens will be reading at Third House Books in Gainesville on October 27th
• David Leavitt”s story, “The David Party,” has just been published in the Washington Square Review.
• Ange Mlinko’s essay “On Fanny Howe” appears in the October 5, 2017 issue of the London Review of Books.
• Michael Hofmann’s “In Hurricane Season” has been published in the London Review of Books blog.
• Benjamin Corbett’s stories “Boys” and “Doors” appear in the new issue of The Literary Review, the fiction editor of which, Justin Taylor, some of you will remember from his days as an undergraduate English major here.
• David Leavitt has an essay on Caravaggio in the September 2017 issue of Vogue Italia.
• Michael Hofmann’s has an essay on Eley Williams in the September 7, 2017 issue of The London Review of Books.
• Dan Chiasson’s astute and exuberant review of Ange Mlinko’s new collection of poems, Distant Mandate, appears in the latest issue of The New Yorker.
• Ange Mlinko’s New Collection, Distant Mandate, has just been published by FSG.
• Summer 2017
• Rachel Khong’s first novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, has just been published by Henry Holt & Co.
• Emma Smith-Stevens’ first novel, The Australian, has just been published by Dzanc Books
• Catapult has just released a new edition of Padgett Powell’s first novel Edisto
• UF alumnus Justin Taylor celebrates the new edition of Padgett Powell’s Edisto in BOMB
• David Leavitt in The New York Times Book Review
• Chris Bachelder in The New York Times Book Review
• Literary Agent Markus Hoffmann has sold Elliot Reed’s novel, A Key to Treehouse Living, to Tin House Books
• In September, David Leavitt will be participating in the Pordenonelegge book festival in Pordenone, Italy
• Michael Hofmann’s poem “In Western Mass” has just been published in The New Yorker
• The 2017 edition of the Florida Writers Festival will be held on November 3rd and 4th and will feature fiction writers Rachel Cusk and Lydia Davis and poets Lawrence Joseph and Paul Muldoon
• Read Judith Thurman’s profile of Rachel Cusk in The New Yorker