CONGRATULATIONS MFA CLASS OF 2023

Lance Carroll

Lance Carroll is a writer who, while born in southern Missouri, has migrated throughout the entirety of the Midwest. He graduated from Shimer College "the worst school in the country" where he earned a degree in liberal arts after a year of study in Oxford At Notre Dame, he has served as the co-editor of fiction for Notre Dame Review and taught classes on nonfiction and speculative fiction He is working on a hybrid memoir about sexuality and religious experience.

Arman Chowdhury

Arman Chowdhury is a prose writer from Dhaka, Bangladesh His short story “Deficiency Notice” is a finalist for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is working on a novel of speculative fiction centered on the encampment of stateless refugees and environmental collapse. His work has been supported by the University of Notre Dame, the Loft Literary Center, and the Tin House Summer Workshop.

Zoe Darsee

Zoe Darsee was born about noon on a Tuesday Later they founded TABLOID Press, a publishing practice rooted in the poetics & sounds of the local, with poet, friend and artist Nat Marcus in Berlin, Germany. This work continues. Some of the poet's texts have appeared in Annulet, KEITH LLC, Spectra Poetry, The Quarterless Review, in translation for EDIT Magazine, and in vocal collaboration with musicians Exael and DJ Paradise. Their chapbook, BELL LOGIC, is forthcoming from Spiral Editions. They are interested in structure(s), ideologies, and are working on a novel, for free

Kristyn Garza

Kristyn Garza, a queer chicana from the U.S./Mexico border, moved from her hometown of McAllen, Texas to Austin to pursue her bachelor's degree in English Literature at St Edward’s University Garza has been researching the ways in which the liminality of the sonic poetic space can exorcise the haunting of trauma held within the femme body She was longlisted for Palette Poetry's 2022 Sappho Prize and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, The McNeese Review, The Spectre Review, New Note Poetry, and as a finalist for RHINO Poetry's Founders Prize 2022.

(Lovely) Raju Kalam

Raju Kalam, known as Lovely Raju to his fans and followers, has self-published a few books on Amazon and owns an Instagram poetry page with about 16k followers, where he publishes excerpts of his works. He loves to write nature poetry and the poetry that motivates people to get out of anxiety, sorrow and depression. There is a secure place in his heart where theoretical physics sleeps. He aspires to preach Peace words through his writing. His debut poetry collection Hope is now available to preorder from Finishing Line Press and his second full-length poetry collection inside violence violence inside is forthcoming from Flower Song Press in 2024

Woori Kim

Woori Kim has a B A and M A in English from Duksung Women’s University, Korea

Angie Lorang Mueller

Angie Lorang Mueller (sometimes publishing under the surname St. John, sometimes not) is from rural Missouri, and she writes stories that her dad says are “weird ” Her work has appeared in Dappled Things, Storm Cellar, About Place, and elsewhere She is the winner of the J F Powers Prize in fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee Angie considers herself a “Catholic writer,” whatever that means She is fascinated by sacramental nature, flora and fauna, and duh women’s bodies. She lives in South Bend, IN with her husband and newborn.

Jacob Anthony Moniz

Jacob Anthony Moniz is a writer and visual artist from California

His work captures the ambiguities of memory, legacy, and grief, relying upon disparate forms of contemplation and narration to produce a sense of empathy in readers and viewers alike His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Penumbra, Chicago Quarterly Review, and The Ocotillo Review, among other journals and publications His short film "Mother of Mercy" was an official selection for Best Short Screenplay at the 2020 Rome Independent Prisma Awards "The Pacific End," a short film based on his novel-in-progress, won Best LGBTQ Short Screenplay at the 2020 New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam In addition to receiving a 2023-2024 Fulbright award to teach and write in Portugal, his writing has most recently appeared in Penumbra and Roadrunner Review.