Zac Lunn (MFA) won 3rd place in the 2017 Raymond Carver Contest sponsored by Carve Magazine.

On October 20, Matthew Sarda (MA) presented “American ‘Heroes’ Inverted: Descrambling the American Trauma Hero Myth” at the conference (Dis)junctions: Trauma and Mourning in a Time of Insecurity, held at UC-Riverside.