Students and Alumni

Our students arrive from different disciplines and go on to create, publish and perform in a variety of modes. From social media projects and feature journalism to poetry, prose and artists' books, we celebrate them and their accomplishments.

Bre'Anna Bivens, 2024

• Spell Me | Guernica, 2023

Dona Mayoora, 2023

• Featured Visual Artist | Volume 15: Visual /// Visionary Poetry, 2025
• Global Multimedia Poetry Stands in Portugal, 2024
• "Jugalbandi/Entwined Haiku" | Michigan Quarterly Review, 2023
• "Visual Poetry on the Page: With, Within, and Without the Word" | International Visual Poetry Exhibit. Oklahoma, U.S.A. 2021.
• The Antibodies | Collaboration with Terri Witek | The Blasted Tree Art Collective & Publishing Co., 2021
• Featured work in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry | Timlaset, Sweden, 2021
• Punctum | Collaboration with Gary Barwin. Gap Riot Press, 2021. Selections also featured in Belfield Literary Review, 2021
• "THE FORGIVENESS OF SCISSORS" | Collaboration with Gary Barwin. Visual Poetry Performance. Belfield Literary Review launch event, Hosted By MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland. 2021
• "Siren" | Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika, 2021. Presented at a poetry reading and discussion at 8 p.m. DISCOURSE at Clubhouse: The Social Audio App.
• WTPLive Literary Award for Neela Moonga | 2021. Interview.
• "Uduppu" and Malayalam translation of a poem by Yehuda Amichai | Litart Web Weekly, 2021
• Malayalam translation of The Rape Kit by Terri Witek | Padabhedam, 2021
• Language Lines and Poetry | Timglaset, 2020
• Neela Moonga (Malayalam Edition) | Insight Publica, 2020
• Listening to Red | Timglaset, 2018

C.G. Myth, 2023

• "We Don't Talk About My Dad" | The Rising Phoenix Review, Rising Phoenix Press, 2021
• “Catholic Sex Ed: Someone Else's Memory” | The Olivetree Review, 2021

Amanda Ellard, 2022

• "The Art of Voice Acting" | The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s Folklife Magazine, 2025
• "Touch of Too Late" | The Avalon Literary Review, 2024
• "When You Heard She Died" | Flash Frontier, 2024
• “When Escaping Reality Helps Define Identity: Expression and Empowerment in the Cosplay Community" | The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s Folklife Magazine, 2023
• “Maybe Get a Cup of Coffee Together” | Walled City Journal, 2022
• “Mom and Dad’s Key West Photos” | Walled City Journal, 2022
• "Sound of Too Late" | Storyscape Literary Journal, 2021
• "2170" | Anastamos, 2020
• Sleeping on a Bench | JMS Books LLC, 2020

Stella Rothe, 2022

• "Of Things That Fly Away" | Sigma Tau Delta’s The Rectangle; Elizabeth Holtze Creative Nonfiction Award, 2021

Rudolph J Esparza Jr., 2022

• "Seventh Sister, Zero Wolf" | The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, 2021

Steven Dunn, 2020

• Tannery Bay | University of Alabama Press, 2024 — Cowritten with Katie Jean Shinkle
• Water and Power | Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2018
• Potted Meat | Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016

Mary Duerksen, 2020

• Beacon of Hope | performed by the Community Chorus of Detroit, 2025
• "Who Opens the Window" | New Words Press, 2023
• "Silenced" | Clamor, 2022
• "Manifesto for Immigrants" | Crambo, 2019

Carley Fockler, 2020

• More Than Our Blues: Unfettered Expressions from Confined Persons | Stetson University Community Education Project, 2020

Sarah Frances Hicks, 2020

• The Threat of Longtermism: Is Ecological Catastrophe an Existential Risk? Disillusioned Ideals for a Bold, New Future | Filozofia Journal, Vol. 78, Dec. 2023
• Ethical Obligations of Global Justice in the Midst of Global Pandemics | De Ethica, Philosophy Journal Vol. 7, No. 2, Jan. 2023
• Entering the Glitch: EMMALEA RUSSO with Sarah Hicks | Brooklyn Rail, April 2020

Erica McCay, 2020

• A Spark Ignited | Journal of Interactive Performance, 2025
• Kids and cats: inspiring interactive play | In Park Magazine, 2023
• "7 Principles for Creating Immersive Worlds" | Medium, 2022
• Experience Creation and Show Writing Projects

Sammie Morris, 2020

• "Disco Vertigo" | The Molotov Cocktail
• "Matriarch in White" | Poor Yorick Journal
• "5 Poems" | Gimilet Eye 7

Jennifer Paccione-Diaz, 2020

• "Partraits of a Puzzle in Pieces" | New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2019
• Untitled Poems | Matchbook Magazine, Vol. 5

Ryan Rivas, 2020

• Nextdoor in Colonialtown | Autofocus Literary, 2024
• Lizard People | Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
• "Buenos Aires" | Necessary Fiction, 2021
• "The President is Missing" | Scoundrel Time, 2018
• "The Fire Or Live, Round-the-Clock Coverage of Kierkegaard’s Parable of the Clown" | Ghost Parachute Magazine, 2016
• "South Beach" | Analemma, 2011
• Around the Lake | decomP, 2010

Nikki Fragala Barnes, 2019

• Featured Cover Photo Poem | Of Poets and Poetry, 2025
• Featured Poet, Profile in Poetry | Of Poets and Poetry, 2024
• Contributor, Chapter 5: An Expanded Field: Exploring Form, Mode, and Material in Poetry Writing Workshop | Multimodal and Digital Writing Pedagogies, 2023
• The Liberatory Legacy of Bell Hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY, 2023
• “These are the conditions we write under”: Selfies, Care-work, and Collaboration in the Time of COVID | The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Issue 6.2, 2022
• “The beach is an hourglass,” | Of Poets & Poetry, Vol. 48.3, May/June 2021
• ”hope,” | Of Poets & Poetry, Vol. 47.1, Jan./Feb. 2021
• Poems in the Wild: how we engage + respond spaces of unfamiliarity, UCF, 2021
• Inaugural Summer Exhibition, Resistance & Resilience Book Arts Guild of Central Florida, with Rachel Simmons of Rollins College, 2021
• Creating with Pride: LGBTQ+ Artists and Authors, Winter Park Public Library, 2021
• Queer Spaces, LGBTQ History Museum of Central Florida, The Center Orlando, 2021
• Interview with Katherine Nelson-Born, Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida | Of Poets & Poetry, Vol. 47.7, Nov/Dec 2020
• “holy water,” and “haiku for the sea,” | Of Poets & Poetry, Vol. 47.3, May/June 2020
• “faultlines, a clay prayer,” Virtual Group Show, City of Mount Dora, 2020
• Three Ways of Poeming, a participatory installation series, Valencia College, 2020
• Rise, a collaborative mural project via Art of Collab Studio, Eatonville Culture and Heritage, Elizabeth Park, City of Eatonville, Florida, 2020
• Curator, Thread: An Ekphrastic Experiment, Poetry Gallery, Valencia College, 2020
• Curator, Featured Artist, Presenter, Winter Park Book Festival, 2019–20
• Just My Type: Experimental Typewriter Games, Featured Poet-Artist, Valencia, 2019
• Elsewhere, Featured Poet, Inaugural International Poetry Festival Cor a la Boca, Boca Al Foc, The Liminal, Valencia, Spain, 2019
• Night Shift: Text, Orlando Museum of Art, 2019
• Artist book, defibrillator (with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram), 2019
• Creative works, current projects

Savannah Kater, 2019

• Visual Art/Poems — Makeup — Code Poetry | WAAVe Global Gallery — Visual Poetry and Asemic Work by Women (Hysterical Books 2021)
• "Dreamland | Collateral Journal 3.2, 2019"
• Featured Artist — Makeup — Code Poetry | Sad Girl Review Issue 3, 2019

Richard Koethe, 2019

• "Social Distancing" | The Quill, 2021
• March–April 2016 Book Review | Military Review: The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, March–April 2016
• November–December 2016 Book Review | Military Review: The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, November–December 2016

Pablo Vindel, 2019

• Artist Site: Works, Writings, Shows, Artist Books
• En la noche prevalece un corazón lleno, 2024
• Hunch - Premonition, 2024
• Jewelry for healing son, 2024
• La puesta (head-laying), 2024
• Sujeta fuerte el mimbre, 2024
• Flying garment I ~ Profecía: El agua ensimismada, 2024
• La oportunidad (de devenir nadie), 2024
• Three letters to my mother (triptych), 2024
• Dripping, 2024
• Slime + Shadow, 2024
• Flying garment II ~ Delirio del incrédulo, 2024
• La ausencia es una materia porosa (diptych, after Etel Adnan), 2024
• Llorando, llorando, 2024
• Nos yeux ne pourront jamais se regarder, 2024
• time, like the world, has two hemispheres, 2020–2023 / Published: 2024
• Splinter, 2023
• from her(e) to now(here) | Naranja Librería & Editorial, 2019
• These are my vertebrae. Hu(e)sos, 2018
• Secret(s), 2018
• 28 lapsus linguae, 2018
• The Third Mouth, 2017
• Yo ponía mis manos allí, en el vacío, 2016
• The Same Way a Light Sound, 2016
• Untitled [Book], 2016
• Mouth(s), 2015
• Solo hay dos flores, 2015
• Attachments, 2015
• Esconder(se), 2015
• Prelude: Omen Hoods, 2014
• "The Liminal" | artists studio, Valencia, Spain

Jacklyn Gion, 2018

• “brine” | Two If By Sea, Vol. 1, 2020
• “Las Cintas” | Sinking City, Issue 2
• “O, Snap” | O, Miami Poetry Festival, Project Contributor, 2017

Carol Ann Moon, 2018

• Poem “My Neighbor” published in Walt Whitman Birthplace’s Democracy Anthology, September 14, 2025.
• Chapbook “A breast is not a breast is not a breast” named a Finalist in the Yellow Jacket Chapbook Contest, KeepStPeteLit, Summer 2025.
• Poem “To Dream or Not to Dream – My Father Just Tugged” published in Spring 2025 in The Sandhill Review.
• Poem “Women of the Road” published in Spring 2024 in The Sandhill Review.
• Poems “Santiago,” “Elegiac Sonnet to Maya Lin’s ‘Water’,” and “Splash on Steel” were published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Sandhill Review.
• Poem “This is How We Make it Through Breast Cancer” published Spring 2023 by Saw Palm Journal.
• “Orchids - April 10, 2022” | Luisa Igloria's Blog, 2022
• "Elegiac Sonnet to 12 and 3" | Muddy River Poetry Review, Spring 2022
• "Elegiac Sonnet to 9 cm" | Muddy River Poetry Review, Spring 2022
• Interleaving: Poets in Conversation | Saint Leo University, 2018
• “1969 Hasbrouck Heights” | Indiana Voice Journal, 2017
• “Using Archives and Special Collections Print Primary Sources to Discuss Electronic Resources' Advantages and Disadvantages” | ICERI 2018 in Seville, Spain, 2018

Michelle Pavone, 2018

• "Words Knit in Wire" | A Bad Penny Review

Lucianna Chixaro Ramos, 2018

• Cells | Poetry collection. Burrow Press, 2023
• "Always Crashing" | Five poems from The Impossible House, 2021
• "Bombay Gin" | Five poems excerpted from An Index of Violence Categorized by Water Body. Print edition. Issue 45, 2020
• “Runners” | The Collapsar, 2018
• “shore to psalm” | Anastamos, Issue 3, 2018
• "Flashes" | Elsewhere, Issue 15, 2018
• “when everything is Spoiled,” “Life-Cycle (XX),” and “If Only You Understood: a series of technologically mediated translations” | Otoliths, Issue 44, 2017
• “Humaíta” and “Notes to Self.” | New South: A Journal of Art + Literature, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2016
• Ekphrastic Floridas | presented by Burrow Press, reading/performance at The Gallery at Avalon Island

Rebecca Renner, 2018

• Gator Country | Flat Iron Books, 2023
• In Florida, a River Gets Rights | Sierra Magazine, 2021
• More than 430 manatees have perished in 2021. Why are they dying? | National Geographic, 2021
• NY Snowbirds Basking In Florida Sunshine And Freedom Thanks To COVID Vaccines | Gothamist, 2021
• Everyone’s Singing Sea Shanties (or Are They Whaling Songs?) | New York Times, 2021
• Don’t Take Your Head Out of the Clouds! | New York Times, 2021
• How to Survive in the ‘Shark Attack Capital of the World' | New York Times, 2020
• The Misunderstood Python Hunters Saving the Everglades | Outside Magazine, 2020
• Why Humans are Hardwired to Feel Disgust | National Geographic, 2020
• The pandemic has caused lots of worries in kids. Don't let vaccines become one of them. | National Geographic, 2020
• How scientists plan to protect Earth from extraterrestrial germs | National Geographic, 2020
• Your kids want to be social. Science says they need to be. | National Geographic, 2020
• Intensifying hurricanes are helping invasive species spread across the U.S. | National Geographic, 2020
• The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why. | National Geographic, 2020
• Waterkeepers Fight to Save Florida From Toxic Algae | Sierra Magazine, 2018
• "The Bottomless Hole on Crooked Palm Boulevard" | Crab Orchard Review's Charles Johnson Fiction Award 2017, Finalist
• Janet Reno's Sister Owes a Florida Developer $5 Million. She Has Zero Intention of Paying | Medium Magazine
• “On Anna Maria Ortese's The Iguana” | Tin House, Volume 20, Number 1

Delila Smalley, 2018

• untitled | Bodies of Words, December Publish, Inc.

Jared Alan Smith, 2018

• "Bear Market" | Hinchas de Poesia, Issue 19
• "The Pretender" | Fantastic Floridas, Burrow Press
• "For Denis Johnson: Estranha Forma da Vida (Feel It Still)" | Bridge Eight Press

Stephen Weiss, 2017

• "A Modest Proposal" | The Write Launch, 2022
• "A Curly Tale" | Evening Street Review, 2022
• "Cancer" | Torrid Literature Journal, 2022
• "Lady Macbeth" | Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror, Spring 2022
• "Memento Mori" | The Roanoke Rambler, 2022
• "Hammer Time" | The Penmen Review
• "The Frog Pond" | Edison Literary Review, Issue 20, 2021
• "Death Wish" | Five on the Fifth, 2021
• "The Murmuration" | Streetlight Magazine, Issue 34, 2020
• "Primum Non Nocere" | Green Hills Literary Lantern, Vol. XXXI, 2020
• "Secret Garden" | DASH Literary Journal, 13th Edition, 2020
• "Out of My Hands" | Off The Coast: Maine’s International Poetry Journal, 2020
• "Penelope’s Tapestry" | The Opiate, Vol. 19, 2019