Creative Writing Alumni

Brigitte Clifton's 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 received his MFA from Georgia State University in May, 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.

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.

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) first book, Hope, As the World is a Scorpion Fish, has been accepted for publication by The Backwaters Press and should appear in March, 2007. In Fall of 2006, she began a full-time teaching gig at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. Her poems are forthcoming in Redactions, The Chattahoochee Review, Natural Bridge, PMS, Wicked Alice, and Feminist Studies.

Dear Alumni:
We would love to hear from you any news you would like to share with other alumni, current creative writing faculty, and students.

Send news, both professional and personal, in care of Josh Russell at: josh@gsu.edu