Published Essays of Alumni & Current Students in the UNM MFA Program

Tani Arness

“Red Dirt Paths” Fourth Genre (2005)

Molly Beer

"Disappeared"  Sycamore Review (2007)

“Coatepeque Nightswimming” Nimrod (2008)
       Finalist for the 2007 Iowa Review Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Carson Bennett

"Access Granted" EXPN (2008)

John Bess

“Non Pro Nobis” Creative Nonfiction: Anthology: Silence Kills, SMU Press (2007)
      Creative Nonfiction Issue 33 (2007)

Paul Bogard

“Desert River Drowning” The Sonora Review (2004)
“Crash” River Teeth (2005)
“Dog Star” North Dakota Quarterly (2004)
“Hearing Moon & Starlight” The Gettysburg Review (2007)

Jeremy Collins

“Shadow Boxing” The Georgia Review (2007)
Winner of a 2008 Pushcart Prize

Melody Gee

“Back Home” North Dakota Quarterly (2007)

Laura Matter

“Pursuing The Great Bad Novelist”   The Georgia Review (2007)
        Reprinted in Best Creative Nonfiction 2008 W.W. Norton
        Nominated for a National Magazine Award

"The Long Run" forthcoming in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (2009)

Trish O’Connor

“Private Ceremonies” Brain, Child (2007)
                Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Brain, Child

Rachel Pratt

“Negotiating Bride Price” The Missouri Review (2003)
     Winner of The Missouri Review Nonfiction Prize

“Broken Waters” Fourth Genre (2007)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fourth Genre

Dana Salvador

“After the Harvest” Fourth Genre (2007)

Jennifer Schaller

"The Man Who Came to Dinner"  This American Life (NPR) (12/21/2007)

"Super Prego" Brain, Child (2008)

"My Father Was a Traveling Salesman" forthcoming in Sonora Review (2009)

"The Opposite of Gary" forthcoming in The Georgetown Review (2009)

Micaela Seidel

"The Good Daughter" forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly (2009)

Kayrn Smith

"Weather" forthcoming in Room (2009)