Several alumni of the Department’s Creative Writing Program reported updates in their careers since completing their degrees: Tim Stobierski ‘11(CLAS) has recently had poems published or on the way in Poetry Ireland, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, Midwest Quarterly, Chestnut Review, Crab Creek Review, &change, EOAGH, Chiron Review, Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, and elsewhere. He’d served as one of the judges for the 2025 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, presented by The […]
Publications
Chelsea Dodds ‘10 (CLAS) releases “Nothing Good Will Get Away”
Chelsea Dodds’s ‘10 (CLAS) debut poetry chapbook, Nothing Good Will Get Away, is set to be published May of 2026 from Finishing Line Press. Congratulations, Chelsea!
Mike Pontacoloni ‘09 (CLAS), ’11 (MA) releases poetry chapbook and wins award
Mike Pontacoloni ‘09 (CLAS), ’11 (MA) who has had many successes in the past few years has added another to his collection. Mike’s poetry chapbook, “Anadromous Fish of the Farmington River”, won the 2025 Quarterly West Chapbook Prize and will be published later this year. Congratulations, Mike!
m.mick powell, ‘15 (BA) releases “Dead Girl Cameo”
m. mick powell, ‘15 (BA) has released a new book of poems, Dead Girl Cameo, which was published by Penguin Random House in August of 2025. Congratulations, Mick!
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature
Routledge Publishing, 2026
Miller Oberman ‘17 (PhD) featured as Poet of the Day
Miller Oberman ‘17 (PhD) was highlighted as the Poet of The Day at the national Poetry Daily site on July 19th. The featured poem, “Theory”, featured is from Miller’s second book, “Impossible Things”, now available for purchase on Duke UP. Congratulations, Miller!
Kashawn Taylor, ‘13 (CLAS) releases “subhuman”
A collection of poetry by Kashawn Taylor ’13 (CLAS), subhuman, was released in March 2025 by Wayfarer Books. One of his poems, These Headphones Should Be Free, was featured in their April 2025 Poetry magazine and can be found on the Poetry Foundation website. Congratulations, Kashawn!
Prof. Görkemli’s New Book Wins INDIES Honors
Sweet Tooth and Other Stories, the most recent book published by Prof. Serkan Görkemli, was awarded with multiple Foreword INDIES honors for 2024. The book was named a finalist in the Short Stories (Adult Fiction) category and received the Silver Award in the LGBTQ+ (Adult Fiction) category. Update October 2025: Professor Gorkemli’s short story collection was […]
English Dept. Grad Students with Literary Translation Program
Multiple members of the Department of English community were featured in UConn Today, highlighting their work with the University of Connecticut’s program in Literary Translation
Ph.D. Candidate Julia Wold on Shakespeare in Modern Media
Julia Wold, an English Ph.D. candidate, was featured on UConn today for her research. She spent the last year as a fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute, where she has been working on her dissertation titled “Adapting Choice: Shakespeare, Video Games, and Early Modern Thought.” Her work focuses on the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s plays into a video game […]