Adam Johnson, Ph.D. 2001 - His work has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's, and The Missouri Review, as well as Best New American Voices a record four years running. He is the author of a collection of stories, Emporium, and a novel, Parasites Like Us. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he currently teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
Matt Bondurant, Ph.D. 2003 - The short fiction of two-time Bread Loaf scholarship winner and Sewanee Fellow Matt Bondurant has appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, The New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. His novel The Third Translation was published by Hyperion in April 2005 and it has been translated into 14 languages worldwide. His second novel The Wettest County in the World will be released by Scribners in October 2008. Film rights were recently purchased by Columbia Pictures. He recently accepted a tenure-track Fiction Writer job at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Todd James Pierce, Ph.D. 2004 - Todd has just won the Drew Heinz Fiction Prize. He was chosen by none other than Joan Didion for his collection of stories, Newsworld. Newsworld will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Australia Stories, a novel and, with another FSU graduate Ryan Van Cleave, Behind the Short Story, which provides the “inside scoop” on how a successful story emerges from first to final draft.
Jennifer Perrine, Ph.D. 2006 - Her first collection of poetry, The Body Is No Machine, was published by New Issues in 2007, and she has recently completed a second book of poetry, This Animal Self. She currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches fiction and poetry writing, gender studies, and Holocaust studies at Drake University.
Chelsea Rathburn, B.A. 1997 - Her first collection of poetry, The Shifting Line, received the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award and was recently published by the University of Evansville Press. She received an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2001. Rathburn is also author of a limited edition fine letterpress chapbook, Unused Lines, published by Aralia Press in 2002. She works as a freelance copywriter and video producer in Atlanta.
Michael McClelland, Ph.D., Creative Writing - Already hailed by Publishers Weekly as an “up-and-coming mystery writer” following the success of his first novel, Oyster Blues, Michael McClelland, Wittenberg University assistant professor of English, has again captured the attention of critics with his latest release, Tattoo Blues, a witty crime novel set in Cedar Key, Fla.
Brigitte Byrd, Ph.D. 2003 - Her book of poems Fence Above the Sea was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005. She currently teaches at Clayton State University in Georgia.
Maryhelen Cleverly Harmon, Ph.D., American Literature, 1981 - She is an Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida where she specializes in 19th century British and American literature and is a winner of the Krevanek Award, USF's highest teaching award. Harmon has written book chapters and articles on the English Romantics, Hawthorne, and Melville.
David Bottoms, Ph.D. 1982 - Robert Penn Warren selected David Bottoms's first collection, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, for the 1979 Walt Whitman Award. His recent work includes Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems and the novel Easter Weekend. He is a Professor of English at Georgia State University and the State Poet Laureate for Georgia.
Raoul G. Cantero, III, B.A. 1982 - Justice Cantero was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court on July 10, 2002, by Governor Jeb Bush. He is the first Hispanic to sit on the Court. Justice Cantero has lectured on various topics, including Florida appellate procedure, appellate writing, federal appellate jurisdiction, expert witnesses, jury voire dire, and federal civil procedure. He also has taught at Florida State University's College of Law. He is author of “Certifying Questions to the Florida Supreme Court: What's So Important?” 76 Fla. Bar. J. No. 5 (May 2002); “Changes to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure,” 71 Fla. Bar J. No. 11 (Dec. 1997); “Discovery from Medical Experts: How Much is Too Much?”, 16 Trial Advocate Quarterly 1 (Winter 1997); “Non-Final Review of Insurance Coverage Issues: Wading through the Quagmire,” 69 Fla. Bar J. No. 9 (Oct. 1995); and co-author of “Controversy in the Competitive Bidding Process,” 68 Fla. Bar J. No. 9 (Oct. 1994). Justice Cantero is also an accomplished fiction writer, having published several short stories.