Creative Writing Student and Alumni Publications

Timothy Bradford, PhD (2005)

• Nomads with Samsonite, BlazeVox [books], Buffalo, New York. (2011)
• “Contact” and “Waves and the Tide.” Interim 29 (2011).
• “Barabaig, Losing Land in Tanzania, Consider Washington State” and “Central Hockey League Night.” Fiddleback 1.5 (2011).
• “Fear Factor,” “First Treatise,” “Lost Time for Rose,” “Message” and “Lotto.” No Tell Motel (2010).
• “Concrete and Plums,” “Zoo Poems,” “Oklahoma,” “Four Poems for Tamara,” and “The Poet at Seventeen” in Ain’t Nobody Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing, Mongrel Empire Press (2010).
• Review of Elisa Gabbert’s The French Exit H_NGM_N#11 (2010).
• “Middle Songs” and “Seven-Part Note to Suicide” in Upstairs at Duroc #11, Paris, France (2010).
• “Jerusalem Everywhere You Go” and “Tri-Weekly Cimarron River Report," 17 May 2003 to 28.
• August 2003” in ecopoetics 06/07, Lewiston, MA. (2009).
• “Hamlet’s Letter from Exile,” “Hamlet’s Meditation,” “Ophelia’s Dream,” and “Ophelia in The Abyss” in Drunken Boat , Drunken Boat #10 (2009).

James Brubaker, PhD Student (2013)

• Liner Notes, Subito Press, Boulder, Colorado. (2014).
• "This Box Contains a Quantity of Hydrocyanic Acid That May or May Not Have Been Released Already by the Decay of a Small Amount of a Radioactive Substance. Also, There Is a Cat in the Box. (A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story.)." Zoetrope 17.2 (2013).
• "A Speech on the Occasion of the Discovery of the Last Melody Known to Man (Dedicated to Philip Adler, Ph.D)." Haydens Ferry Review 51 (2012).
• "An Introduction to the Deluxe Edition of Arthur Cane Kills Moby Dick's Whales Drink the Ocean and...By Pete Welch." Keyhole 12 (2012).
• "Flavor Flav Travels through Time and Reads About Himself in Wikipedia." Indiana Review 34.2 (2012).
• "Al's Sound, Big as God: An Interview." Texas Review (forthcoming).
• "Oh Yoko." Confrontation 108 (2011).
• "Four Walls Won't Hold You." Blue Mesa Review 24 (2011).
• "Of Muscle Memory" Rabbit Catastrophe Review 1 (2011).
• "A New Map of America." The Cupboard 2 (2008).
• "The Reception." Flights (2008): 15-19.
• "The Carpet Would Swallow Us." Nexus 42 (2006): 45-55.
• "Our Hands Were Cold." Nexus41 (2006): 29-32.

Robin Carstensen, PhD (2011)

• "Villanelle for the Fearless." Sin Fronteras: Writers Without Borders, the annual anthology of Writers Without Borders. Sin Fronteras Press (forthcoming Spring 2011).
• "Rio Grande." Dos Passos Review (forthcoming Dec 2010).
• "Ghazal: The Bystanders." Tusculum Review (forthcoming).
• "Blue Sombra," "Pantoum: Song of a Borderland," "The Fountains Whence All This River of Time and its Creatures Floweth." Weber: The Contemporary West (forthcoming).
• "Paradise: Seven Clans Casino." Conte: a Journal of Narrative Writing (2010).
• "Ode to the Up and Coming." Ascent (2009).
• "When Asked to Write About Your Life." Big Muddy (2009).
• "The Purchase." Puerto del Sol (2009).
• "Invitation from Theta Park." Many Mountains Moving (2009) Poetry Contest Winner.
• "Stillwaters in the Heartland." Sinister Wisdom (2009).
• "Immer Frue: Inscription on Childhood Photo, Giessen Germany, 1967." So to Speak: a Feminist Journal of Language & Art (2009) Poetry Contest Winner.
• "Laundromat on 51 East." Natural Bridge (2008).
• "I Give You This Day My Crown of Thorns and Claim My Resurrection." Cold Mountain Review (2008).

Dinah Cox, PhD (2009)

• “Glue” J Journal (forthcoming)
• “Adolescence in B Flat” Limestone (forthcoming)
• “Three Sad Stories” Quarterly West (forthcoming)
• “April Fool’s Day” Confrontation (forthcoming)
• “The Canary Keeper” Prairie Schooner 86.3 (Fall 2012)
• “Donna Valentine Live” Cream City Review 35.2 (Fall 2011)
• “Blackout” Folio 26.1 (Spring 2011)
•  “Three Fire Stories” Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment 13.2 (2011)
• “The End of Something Better, The Start of Something Worse” Beloit Fiction Journal 24 (Spring, 2011)
• “Leo’s Peking Palace” Copper Nickel 13 (2010)
• “Remarkable” Zone 3 24.2 (2009)
• “Honk, Honk Dead” Dislocate 4 (2008)
• “The Quisenberry Family Singers” REAL—Regarding Arts & Letters 32.2 (2008)
• “Tragedy and the Common Woman” Other Voices 42 (2005)
• “How to Write About Oklahoma” North Dakota Quarterly 71 (2004)
• “The Umbrella is a Mark of Distinction” Eleven, Eleven 10 (online)
•  “Pie in the Sky” The Fiddleback 1  (online)
•  “Yellow Dogs” The Wanderlust Review  1 (online)

Joshua Cross, PhD (2015)

• "The Clock Tower." Evening Street Review (forthcoming).
• "We Become the Way We Are." Beloit Fiction Journal 21 (2008).

Jennifer Edwards, PhD (2014)

• "Flatiron Range, Colorado." Muse. September 2010. Print.
• "Ransom, Kansas," "Desolation, Idaho." The ScissorTALE Review. Summer 2010. Web.
• "Singles Night at a Trailer Park." Dope 2 (2010).
• "More Fun Than A Dinner Party." The Laurel Review.

Phil Estes, PhD (2015)

• "Some Mythologies," The Lifted Brow (Forthcoming 2013).
• “Oklahoma is Not Unlike Ancient Rome, Only with Blue Laws” LUNGFULL! 21 (2013).
• “Clapping Hands,” “I’d Call it an Odyssey, but the Whole Sky is Black Matted,” Sonora Review 61 (2012).
• “Baader-Meinhoff Complex,” “White Lines (3)” West Wind Review (2012).
• “White Lines,” Greying Ghost Press Pamphlet 26 (2012).
• “Dear ____, Our Lady of Good Hope Student of the Year, 1998-1999,” Diagram 11.5 (2012).
• “Cutting on Motion,” “The Oresteia (458 B.C.) or, a Revenge Trilogy,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 49 (2011).
• “Therapy Dog,” The Nashville Review August 2011.
• "The Miracle of Chile," "My Ars Nature Poetica." Willow Springs 66 (2010).
• “In Australia, State Funerals are Increasingly Offered to Persons of General Celebrity,” Harpur Palate 9.2 (2009).
• “Parties in the Afterlife are a Lot like Parties in Dayton, Ohio,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 46 (2009).

Brandon Hobson, PhD (2015)

• "Girl Enclosed in Glass," Puerto Del Sol (forthcoming)
• Three stories, NOON 2012 (forthcoming)
• "I am Alert to Slow Moving Things," The Lifted Brow, No. 9 (2011).
• "Good Behavior," Gigantic 3 (2011).
• "Downtown," "Cake." New York Tyrant (2010)
• "I Waited for Meg," "Inez." Noon (2010).
• "Somewhere" (Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize), "We're Safe Now," "Gas Station." Noon (2009).
• "Work," "The Single Whip." Noon (2008).
• "A Place for Us." Narrative Magazine. Winter 2007.
• The Levitationist. Ravenna Press. 2005. 

Billy Howell, PhD (2015)

• "How to Leave Your Mother." Florida Review 35.2 (2010).
• "Rock Shelter." Lumina (2011).
• "Plans." Arroyo (2010).
• "Any Minute Now, Something Will Happen." Blue Mesa Review (2007).

Alex Linden, MFA (2012)

• "When I Mistook a Street Musician for My Father." Blue Earth Review IX (2011).
• "Divorce Through Metaphor." Burner 01 (2011).
• "Seashells." Juked (2010).
• "Fire." Blood Lotus #16. 

Clay Matthews, PhD (2008)

• Pretty, Rooster. San Diego, CA: Cooper Dillon Books. 2011.
• Runoff. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books. 2009.
• Superfecta. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press. 2008.

Brad McLelland, MFA (2011)

• "Who Will Take the Word?" The Harrow.
• "The Party." The Harrow.
• "Bob-O the Bassett Hound." Fear and Trembling.
• "Bonus Bug." Anotherealm.

Mike Melancon, MFA (2012)

• "Ask Why," "Things to Do When Chase Bank Has You on Hold." The Fiddleback. Volume 1, Issue 2 (2011).
• "Acadian Pastoral." Off the Coast. Winter 2011.

Eric Neuenfeldt, MFA (2012)

• Fall Ends Tomorrow. Iron Horse Press. 2010.
• "Bee Inside a Bullet." PANK. April 2010.
• "They Said Stone Does Not Burn." Permafrost. Summer 2009.
• "Spoons." Zaum. Spring 2009.

Andrew Terhune, PhD (2014)

• “Misfortune, Cookie” and “Loaded” in Rabbit Catastrophe Review 2 (2011).
• “Botany” in Cooweescoowee (2011).
• “Is Vanishing” in Leveler (2010).
• “Koala” in Spilt Milk (2010).
• “Jeff Bridges” and “Sweeping the Corners” in Columbia Poetry Review(2010).
• “Homebody” in West Wind Review (2010).
• “No Tee Vee” and “When There’s No Washcloth” in Court Green (2010).
• “Yahweh Or the Highway” in 5 AM (2009).
• “I Keep a Map from My Doorstep to Yours” in DIAGRAM (2009).
• “Hope is Migratory” in Makeout Creek (2009).
• “Place right beside left (no weight) and clap” and “My French” in Eleven Eleven (2009).
• “The Lord God is a Bird” in Meridian (2009).
• “I Am On Your Side” and “The Left Margin” in Buffalo Carp (2009).
• “Eileen & I” and “Changes to a Poem” in Reconfigurations (2008).
• “The Rabbits of Chicago Wait Only for Me” in Glass (2008).
• “Los Angeles, California” in Columbia Poetry Review (2008).

Jeff Simpson, MFA (2009)

• Vertical Hold. Steel Toe Books. 2011.
• "Color Depicting the Inherent Value of Things," "Stag Night," "Phantom Pains." H_NGM_N #8 (2009).
• "Miami, OK," "Shrapnel." Nimrod 52.1 (2008).
• "Thyroidectomy." Gulf Stream 28 (2008).

Sarah Wangler, MFA (2011)

• "Towhead in the Sonoran Desert." FIELD 86 (2012).
• "Missionary Sonnet #2," "Pistachio, Pistachio," "Childbearing," "Not Yours, Oklahoma." Superstition Review 4 (2009).
• "Another Ex-Boyfriend Flees The State," "If you live on a piece of land for seven years, you own it." Cardinal Sins Literary Magazine.