Associate Professor Derick Burleson's new book, Never Night, published by Marick Press. Adam Zagajewski calls Never Night "a hymn to life, a meditation on day and night, on the seasons, on nature and on love. "

David Crouse Publishes Second Collection of Short Fiction. Assistant Professor David Crouse's second collection of short fiction, The Man Back There, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2008. The collection, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, consists of 9 stories, all told from the perspective of various male characters.  Judge Mary Gaitskill selected Professor Crouse's manuscript from a pool of more than 400 book-length submissions.

Former Graduate Student Publishes Collection of Essays. Jennifer Brice, a graduate of the MFA Program, recently published her second collection of Creative Nonfiction. Unlearning to Fly: a Memoir was recently published by the University of Nebraska Press. Another collection of essays, The Last Settlers (Duquesne U), was released in 1998. Her work has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, River Teeth, The Gettysburg Review, The Sonora Review, and others. She received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.