BU Creative Writing

Middle Men, a collection of short stories by Jim Gavin (Fiction 2011), will be released today by Simon & Schuster. In a starred review, Kirkus has called Middle Men “exceptional…the best kind of satire: barbed and hilarious, but suffused with compassion”, and The Los Angeles Times has selected Jim as one of their “Faces to watch in 2013.” (Follow the link and then click “Books.”) The collection includes “Costello,” which appeared previously in the New Yorker.

A story by Alice Lesch Kelly (Fiction 1992), "Good Girl," has been published in the winter issue of The Quotable, a print and online journal.  Her blog post about the story, "A Man Brings Home a Dog," appears on the journal's blog. You can read "Good Girl" online here and buy a copy of the issue here.

Also, Alice's new book, Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: The Ultimate Pregnancy Guide (HarperOne, January 29, 2013) has been published and is now available in bookstores. Alice co-wrote the book with Dr. Siobhan Dolan, medical advisor to March of Dimes. The book's publication kicks off the March of Dimes' year-long 75th anniversary celebration.

Alice Lesch Kelly is a freelance magazine writer and book collaborator. She teaches undergraduate creative nonfiction workshops at Emerson College.

Congratulations, Alice!

Don Share (Poetry 1988), who is Senior Editor of POETRY magazine, has recently published several new books. Wishbone, his third book of poems, is out now from Black Sparrow; his translations of Miguel Hernández, which earned him the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, are being issued in March in a revised and expanded edition by the New York Review of Books; his anthology, co-edited with Christian Wiman, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine, published in October by the University of Chicago Press, has earned a starred review from Library Journal; and finally, his translation of Field Guide, by Colombian poet Dario Jaramilo Agudelo, was just published by Marick Press.

Don's other books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca in English (Penguin Classics), and Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions), a 2012 Guardian Book of the Year and Paris Review Editors’ Choice selection; he has also edited a critical edition of Bunting’s work for Faber and Faber. His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement / Society of Authors Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán.  He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and curator of poetry at Harvard University.  For his work at POETRY he has earned two National Magazine Awards for Editorial Excellence.

Congratulations, Don!

Cara Bayles, one of our current students, has just had a story--titled "Next"--published in Meridian (the semiannual publication from the University of Virginia). You can purchase a copy of the magazine here. Congratulations, Cara!

Cara Bayles is an MFA candidate in fiction at Boston University. As a journalist, she covered the neighborhoods of Boston and the swamps of rural Louisiana.

A poem by Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012), titled "Signs," has just been published in the latest print issue of Gargoyle Magazine, Gargoyle #59.

Dariel was born in Havana, Cuba, where he resided until 1997. Dariel's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including Collier's Magazine, Versal, Smokelong Quarterly, the 2River View, and The Florida Book Review. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and included in a number of poetry anthologies. Dariel has taught creative writing at the Boston Arts Academy and Boston University. He lives in Boston with his wife, where he's at work on a collection of stories set in Cuba, as well as a novel.

Congratulations, Dariel!