NEW ND PUBLICATIONS

THE 20TH EDITION OF RE:VISIONS

Re:Visions began as a place to showcase undergraduate prose writing and has now expanded to include poetry and visual art. Graduates and undergraduates from the University of Notre Dame as well those enrolled at St. Mary’s and Holy Cross College are invited to submit short stories, poetry, visual art, and other hybrid work of all kinds. They are also invited to serve as editorial assistants for the journal.

Graduate Editors included: Jamjun Rorsoongnern (Editor-in-Chief) and Taylor Thomas (Graduate Liason)

Undergraduate Editors included: Drew Morgan and Annie Brown

Design/Layout: Annie Brown

Cover Artwork: "Light in the Darkest of Times" by Kylo Goskoy

NOTRE DAME REVIEW ISSUE NO. 55

Issue 55 of the Notre Dame Review shows us it's a Grave New World out there. We are at a crossroads in this world between the dangers of climate change and an increase of autocratic leaders attempting to drag everyone back into the past. The artists and authors featured in this issue grapple with the possibilities of what is to come while demonstrating that the people of the world will not go quietly. Enjoy works by James Davis May, John Poch, KateLynn Hibbard, and Jenny Husk among others.

Francisco Aragón's ('03) essay “Glorious View: Landscapes of Memoria” appeared in Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). Also: July of 2023 will mark twenty years since Francisco joined Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), where he has reached the rank of Professor of the Practice, and where he established Letras Latinas, the ILS’ literary initiative, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary (2004 – 2024) next year.

Robert Archambeau’s ('96) novel Alice B. Toklas is Missing will be published by Regal House this November, with an audio book version to be available from Tantor Media. The sequel to the novel, called The Bloomsbury Forgery, is about to be represented by the JVNLA agency in New York He continues to serve as the in-house poetry critic for The Hudson Review, and was recently appointed poetry editor of The Fortnightly Review.

Jace Brittain ('15) has new publications in ANMLY ("The Polycarpists and their mouths") and two poems in ballast. He continues to co-manage Carrion Bloom Books with Rachel Zavecz ('15)

In 2022, Dawn Burns (Comer) ('98) published Evangelina Everyday through Cornerstone Press. Dawn has since been busy with interviews, readings, and book signings, including at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. Last August, Dawn accepted an associate professor position in Michigan State University's First-Year Writing Program and moved with her family to Michigan. While continuing to support her SwampFire community, Dawn has also started building creative community in Lansing, starting with the Many Voices Reading Series she began with MSU colleagues and Scott Harris of the fabulous Everybody Reads Books and Stuff Her 2023 goal is to find a home for Born Beneath Pedro's Sombrero: Tales from the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors.

Betsy CornwelI ('12) had an essay in the New York Times' Modern Love column in January, and she just sold her first memoir in a preempt to Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster.

Douglas Curran ('00) had an eventful year and is grateful for the opportunity to share His story “Pericolo! Non Leggere!” appeared in the British magazine The Frogmore Papers last fall. And two new stories will be published this summer: “How to Tell a Joke with a Gun to Your Head” in Evening Street Review and “Her Holland, on an Overcast Day” in a new anthology to be brought out by great weather for MEDIA. The latter organization, an independent publisher in New York, invited Curran to read from his work as a featured writer at their Spoken Word Sundays series at the Parkside Lounge in NYC this past April His website, late January of this year, can be found at www Douglas-Curran com

In September, Paul Cunningham ('15) was interviewed about his second full-length book Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022) in an episode of the Writing the Rapids podcast. New writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB Magazine, Texas Poetry Review, The Ocean State Review, and the anthology A Flame Called Indiana: New Writing from the Crossroads (Indiana UP, 2023) In March, Cunningham presented on a panel at AWP called "#FeelsBad: Writing Discomfort and Pessimism in Genre." In June, he'll read with Tiana Nobile in The Splice Poetry Series in New Orleans, Louisiana. His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik's play Danse Macabre Piggies will be anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (forthcoming from Bloomsbury).

Renée E. D’Aoust ('06) recently received two Pushcart Prize nominations for two essays published in Invisible City and Trestle Creek Review

After the success of her serialized zombie series, Jeanne De Vita ('00) published three epic fantasy romance novels in 2022 under her pen name Callie Chase. She ghostwrites 34 books per year for a USA Bestselling Author's brand and teaches Story Structure, Developmental Editing, Copyediting, Romance Writing, and Freelance Editing for UCLA Extension, Writers com, and in other places She is the Managing Editor of the UCLA Literary Journal Southland Alibi and her freelance editorial business book-genie.com has a new look and expanded services, including author ads and marketing. Jeanne's grateful and as amazed as ever that she's teaching, editing, and writing full time and equally as shocked to celebrate her tenth year living in Los Angeles in May 2023. (She still has a love/hate-relationship with her "new" home city!) She's spent the early part of 2023 getting back in touch with her passion for playing Magic the Gathering (everything old IS new again) and on a recent trip home to Chicago was happy to find her welcome letter from the MFA program and her teaching evals from First-Year Writing students.

Kevin Ducey ('04) has a new poetry collection Gravity's Angel out now from Kingston University Press (May, 2023) Learn more about Ducey's poetry by visiting kevinducey net

Jillian Fantin ('22) is finishing up the last months of their 2023 Sundress Publications Editorial Internship; they were interviewed by Archetype; they were a Tilted House 2022 1BR/3BATH Chapbook Prize Semifinalist with young velvet porcelain boy; and they cofounded Renesme Literary with poet Joy Wilkoff! Additionally, they have poetry forthcoming with wind-up mice, Gutslut Press, L I M I N A L . S P A C E S . M A G, and Zoe Darsee's yet-to-be-named Bell Anthology! They have a chapbook, A Playdough Symposium, forthcoming from Ghost City Press's 2023 Summer Series Since graduating from Notre Dame, they've published poems in poetry onl, Spectra Poets Online, Dream Pop Journal, Harpur Palate, and Olney Magazine. New reviews appear in Sage Cigarettes, Archetype, Drizzle Review, and Bridge Eight Press.

In October 2022, Rebecca Greenes Gearhart's ('21) fiction chapbook Elkhart came out with Berlin-based press Tabloid (co-founded and edited by Zoe Darsee, MFA '23) Elkhart was also featured on Dennis Cooper's "Best of 2022" end of year list

Chris Holdaway's ('16) debut poetry collection Gorse Poems was published by Titus Books in 2022.

Nazli Koca's ('20) debut novel is The Applicant (Grove Press, 2023) In a review from The New York Times, Shreya Chattopadhyay writes "Koca especially shines when illuminating 'women’s pain,' which 'lies beneath the territories of countries, of languages we speak '" Koca is a writer and poet from Turkey who lives in the US.

Katie Lehman's ('99) poetry collection Emily Dickinson's Lexicon is forthcoming from Dos Madres Press. Some of the poems have been published by Fortnightly Review.

PJ Lombardo ('21) published a review of Mike Kleine's agbogbloshie ("Intensive Maximalism") in a new issue of TQR Mag. He also co-founded Grotto (grottojournal.net) with poet Maxwell Rabb.

Jahan Khajavi's ('20) debut poetry collection Feast of the Ass is available from Ugly Duckling Presse Of Feast of the Ass, Moira Egan writes: "Queer, cunning, quirky, the poems are subtly imbued with the ghosts of Ginsberg and Wilde [ ] This Feast is indeed a Feat "

In 2023, Jayne Marek ('05) has written three book reviews, a blurb, and published a dozen or so poems. She has also published photos, such as five bee pics in the New York Times' "Spelling Bee Answers" page (daily bee photos) That is fun! While she waits for a delayed poetry book to appear, her recent poetry manuscript was shortlisted in several contests So polishing continues

Monica Mody ('10) published a hybrid academic essay and poem sequence, "When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," in Issue 7 of Tarka Journal published by Embodied Philosophy. An article, "Arts-based Practices: Research and Transformation in the Academy" was published in the peer-reviewed Transformative Power of Art Journal (Volume 1, Issue 2 Winter 2023) Her poetry appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature. The Lantern Review blog published a guest reflection on identity and community. Mody was an invited speaker at the Association for the Study of Woman and Mythology Scholar Salon (Oct 2022) and at the Pacifica Graduate Institute (Feb 2023). She presented at the El Mundo Zurdo Conference, and read her work at the 2022 South Asian Literary Arts Festival The Beat, a poetry podcast produced by the Knox County Public Library, recorded Mody reading two of her poems and two linked sonnets by the Bengal Renaissance poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Gwen Oxenham's ('06) second book, Under the Lights and in the Dark: The Untold Stories of Women's Soccer, is now a limited audio docuseries, HUSTLE RULE, produced by Nike, hosted by Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham Her third book, Pride of a Nation, is now out with Random House She contributes features regularly to ESPN and Sports Illustrated This summer, she will be the head of creative content for the broadcasting company producing the 2023 Women's World Cup.

Rumit Pancholi ('08) is currently Communications Officer in the Publisher Division of the Communications Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he manages the flagship publication, the Global Financial Stability Report and serves as the Communications Chair of GLOBE, the institution's LGBTQ+ group Rumit enjoys volunteering, gardening, and hiking, as well as traveling with his husband, Luke, and spending time with their dogs, cats, and iguana.

NoNieqa Ramos-Richards’ ('01) debut picture book YOUR MAMA illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara earned starred reviews from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Kirkus The Virginia Center for the Book selected YOUR MAMA as Virginia’s Great Read for 2021 highlighted by the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book at the National Book Festival YOUR MAMA won a Nerdy Book Club Award, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, a School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2021, a Kirkus Best Picture Book of the 2021, a Bank Street Books Best Book of 2021, a 2022 ALA Rise Feminist Book Selection, and a National Council of English Books Notable Poetry Book. Their latest picture book, BEAUTY WOKE, earned starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2022, a Chicago Public Library and New York Public Library Best Book of 2022, and a Bank Street Books Best Book of 2023. In 2024, NoNieqa will be releasing a dystopian YA novel with Lerner Books (unannounced), a short story retelling of "The Raven" in a SFF YA anthology with Inkyard Press (RELIT: 16 LATINX REMIXES OF CLASSIC STORIES), a short story in an MG anthology with Penguin (unannounced), and their first picture book bio, THE TRES HERMANAS: A SISTERHOOD of the COMMON GOOD NoNieqa lives with their soulmate, Michael, superhero to children and educators, champion of equity and diversity, superintendent-extraordinaire, and their two beloved beasties in a plantopia of books, Legos, music, and art.