Renee Emerson<\/a> (Poetry 2009) has joined the\u00a0full-time English faculty at Shorter University in Rome, GA. She will teach poetry, creative writing, and American Literature.<\/p>\n Sheela Chari<\/a> (Fiction 1997)’s\u00a0first novel, Vanished<\/a><\/em>, was published by Disney Hyperion, July 2011.\u00a0Vanished<\/a><\/em> is a children’s novel for ages 9 and up, set in the Boston area,\u00a0and is\u00a0available in stores. It has received some lovely coverage and reviews, including Kirkus<\/a>, who writes: “Chari, in her debut novel, strikes the right note with this engaging, intricate story that spans generations and two countries.”<\/p>\n Kimberly Elkins<\/a> has a forthcoming story in The Iowa Review<\/a>, titled “Je Ne Sais Quoi.” She began her story in Leslie Epstein’s workshop. We will repost when the issue is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy new year! We’re starting 2012 off right, with a long list of good news from our alumni. Micah Nathan (Fiction 2010)’s\u00a0collection of short stories (and a novella) will be released by One Peace Books in June 2012. The short stories are from the MFA year, and the novella was pre-existing. The title is Jack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chari_Vanished](\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2012\/01\/Chari_Vanished-2-199x300.jpg\")
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