IUPUI creative writing faculty has been very productive in terms of publishing their work, launching their projects, and getting grants over the past year. Here’s a list of publications, projects, films, and awards:
Mitchell Douglas, Associate Professor of English
- “Voyager,” a poetic triptych, appears in print in the album art and as a recorded performance set to music for the third album in Son Lux’s Tomorrows trilogy, and was released as a standalone and as a box set on April 16, 2021
- 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry ($25,000)
Hannah Haas, Senior Lecturer in English
- “Spine,” “Attraction,” and “Milagros,” poems, Black Fox Literary Magazine, February 2021
Terry Kirts, Senior Lecturer in English
- “Late Quarantine Thoughts on Vietnamese Cold Noodles and Grilled Pork Patties,” a poem, Global Poemic, March 2021
Karen Kovacik, Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies
- “Treadmill with Virtual Active™: Swiss Alps,” a poem, Florida Review, Spring 2021
- “Miss Victory (1895),” a poem, The Indianapolis Anthology, May 2021
- “Pantomime” and “Absentminded,” translated poems, Southern Review, forthcoming
Sarah Layden, Assistant Professor of English
- “Gone for Good,” short fiction, Sycamore Review, Spring 2021
- “Reclamation,” creative nonfiction, The Indianapolis Anthology, May 2021
- “Missing Trees,” a poem, Doubleback Review, April 2021
- “Side B,” creative nonfiction, River Teeth, Fall 2021
- “Hope you’re enjoying March Madness in Indianapolis. Could you move that mask up?” an op-ed, Washington Post, February 22, 2021
Kyle Minor, Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing
- Soldier, a novella written collaboratively with alum James Yoder, Booth, Winter/Spring 2021
- “Mild Blue Dream,” a short story, Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2021
- “First of the Month,” a 30-minute narrative film directed by C. Thomas Lewis and written and produced by Kyle Minor, Chicago International Social Change Film Festival, October 2020
- The Long Run, a 25-minute documentary film directed by C. Thomas Lewis and produced by Kyle Minor, Indy Film Fest, Summer 2021
- “Using Narrative Analyses to Develop Public Health Strategies Aimed at Dismantling Structural Racism,” a CICF Grant ($100,000): Kyle Minor, Lisa Staten, and Jack Turman (IUPUI); Simone Drake, James Phelan and Robyn Warhol (The Ohio State University); Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky)