The UMSL MFA Program is a juggernaut, garnering 28 books by alums, and consistently gathering awards for the faculty. Mary Troy recently received two awards, the Governor’s Award for teaching and the President’s Award for citizenship and leadership. Shane Seely received the Gitner Award last year, and the faculty is hard at work on the next books.
Natural Bridge, according to Troy, is getting “better than ever, better all the time, especially in terms of subscriptions and quality.” Jennifer Goldring, former poet laureate of UMSL, recently finished her tenure as editor. The latest issue can be previewed here.
Here are the links to their faculty pages and publication lists:
Shane Seely
Gitner Award
http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2014/09/16/poet-gitner/
Here are some of the featured alumni from the MFA Program:
Rewa Zeinati
Nietzsche's Camel Must Die: An Invitation to Say 'No', Bullets & Orchids
Several of her poems, essays, interviews and translations have been published in literary journals and anthologies including: Quiddity, The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices, The Santa Clara Review, Blood Lotus Journal, The Bicycle Review, Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration, Near a Damn Rainbow: Unsanctioned Writing from the Middle East, The UK Poetry Library’s Poets of 2012.
Michael Nye
Strategies Against Extinction
His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, Red Cedar Review, Sou'wester, and South Dakota Review, among many others. He lives in the Midwest and works as the managing editor of The Missouri Review.
Sally Van Doren
Possessive; Sex at Noon Taxes
Her second poetry collection, Possessive, was released by Louisiana State University Press in late 2012. Her first book, Sex at Noon Taxes, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, chosen by August Kleinzahler. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them, American Letters and Commentary, American Poet, Barrow Street, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Lumina, Margie, The New Republic, No Tell Motel, Poetry Daily, Pool, River Styx, Southwest Review, 2River, and Verse Daily.
