Creative Writing Alumni

Brett Bender (MFA/Fiction, 2009) has worked as an archivist, bibliographer, and high school teacher. As an undergraduate he attended the University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, and Georgia State University. In 2007, he won the Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. He lives in the Home Park neighborhood of midtown Atlanta.

Amber Nicole Brooks (MFA/Fiction, 2009) lives and writes in Decatur, Georgia. Her fiction has appeared in Stacatto Magazine and gsu review, and she was awarded third place in the 2007 Playboy College Fiction Contest.

Jody Brooks (MFA/Fiction, 2007) has published fiction in Hot Metal Bridge and Sub-Lit. In the Fall of 2007 she joined the GSU English faculty as a Lecturer.

Christopher Bundy (PhD/Fiction, 2009) returned to the United States after five years of living in and traveling through Asia. He received an MFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Terminus Magazine, The Sunday Reader, The Beacon Street Review, Creative Loafing, and Japanophile, and in the anthology Where Love is Found. He was a 2002 finalist in the AWP Thomas Dunne Novel competition, and First Runner-up in the 2005 Writers Exchange Contest for Fiction, sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Jennie, and his daughter Harper Lily.

Brigitte Clifton's (MFA/Fiction, 2002) lifelong GSU relationship has earned her a BA in Film & Video and an MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction, and she is also a former visiting instructor of English and CW and assistant editor for Five Points. A rabid vegetarian and sporadic activist, she lives downtown with her husband, small son, and large dog.

Kelly Daniels (MFA/Fiction, 2002). After teaching full time at the university level for two years, he entered the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at Western Michigan University, where he currently studies with Stuart Dybek, Jaimy Gordon, Richard Katrovas, and others. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol, South Dakota Review, Eyeshot, Orange Coast Review and other literary journals. In 2002, John Updike selected his nonfiction as the winner of the Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in the Essay. He currently edits fiction for Third Coast magazine and is about to submit his first novel to editors and agents.

Corey Green's (MFA/Poetry, 2007) poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appeared in canwehaveourballback?, Diner, Poetry Motel, RedActions, Segue, storySouth, and many others. He is a PhD student at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

James (Jamie) Iredell's (PhD/Fiction, 2009) "When I Moved to Nevada," a chapbook of flash fiction/prose poetry, was published by The Greying Ghost Press in 2008. (The manuscript was also a finalist for DIAGRAM's 2008 chapbook contest.) His stories have appeared in Storyscape, Hotel St. George, Weber: The Contemporary West, NANO Fiction, The Pedestal Magazine, elimae, The Chattahoochee Review, Zone 3, Mud Luscious, and others. His poems have appeared in The Literary Review, Descant, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Redactions, and Limp Wrist, among others.

Liane LeMaster (MFA/Fiction, 2008) was born in West Virginia and grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater and spent ten years producing plays and managing a theater company in Chicago. She has been published in the Mississippi Review, the Chattahoochee Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Man Martin (PhD/Fiction, 2007) is the author of the novel Endless Corvette (Carroll & Graf, 2007), which won the Georgia Author of the Year prize for first novel, and of short stories and essays that have appeared in Kenyon Review and McSweeny's Internet Tendency.

Originally from Massachusetts, Kerin Flatley Miller (PhD/Fiction, 2009) received her MA at Boston University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she read for Agni magazine. She won first place in the 2005 Creative Loafing/Chattahoochie Review Fiction Contest and received the Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Fiction in 2004. At Georgia State, she was for two years an Assistant Editor at Five Points and met her husband in workshop. She picked apart his use of first person; he silently vowed never to get into an argument with her. Together, they own a lot of books.

Sam Miller (MA/Fiction, 2006) grew up in the southeast (Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama) and graduated from the University of Texas (Austin) in 2000. After some time in Dallas, Baltimore and New York, he returned to Georgia and entered the New South's Writing Workshop. His fiction has recently appeared in McSweeny's and AGNI.

Laurah Norton Raines graduated from Georgia State in May 2006 with a MFA in Fiction, and has stayed on at the University to teach, first as a visiting instructor, and now as a lecturer. A former Paul Bowles Fellow, Laurah has worked as an associate editor at Five Points, and has recently launched her own journal, SUB-LIT. Laurah's work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Fringe and Night Train. In 2006, one of Laurah's stories was a finalist for the Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Fiction. She's currently working on a novel.

Liz Robbins' (PhD/Poetry, 2004) first book, Hope, As the World is a Scorpion Fish, was published by The Backwaters Press in March, 2008. She is an assistant professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. Her poems are have appeared in Redactions, The Chattahoochee Review, Natural Bridge, PMS, Wicked Alice, and Feminist Studies, and are forthcoming in Barrow Street, 5 A.M., MARGIE, and Puerto del Sol.

Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry, 2009) has published poems in Blackbird, River Styx, The Yale Review and other journals. A 2008 Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he was awarded the 2008 Iron Horse Literary Review's Discovered Voices prize.

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