Congrats to the following English faculty for publishing their work and presenting at various events this fall.

Venita Blackburn published the graphic story “Grief Log” in the Commuter section of Electric Literature.

Joseph Cassara published the story “An Arrangement” in Boston Review. He was also featured for Hispanic Heritage Month on the Powell’s City of Books blog.

Alison Mandaville was invited in September to give the annual Callista Brown Common Read Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, with the lecture “Slavery Today: Violence and Change in Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred,’ the Graphic Novel Adaptation.” She published a review of the Khazakhstani poet Aigerim Tazhi’s collection “Paper Thin Skin” in World Literature Today and was also interviewed for the Authors Talk series of Superstition Review.

Samina Najmi published the short essays “Brew” and “The Sky That Didn’t Fall” and the poem “Café Convo” in Thin Air Magazine.

Mai Der Vang published the poem “Out of Research Into Reveries” in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series.

Visit the Fresno State MFA blog for a complete list of accomplishments by students, alumni and faculty.