MFA alumni, photo by Rick Koethe

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

Dona Mayoora, 2023

C.G. Myth, 2023

Amanda Ellard, 2022

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

Steven Dunn, 2020

Mary Duerksen, 2020

Carley Fockler, 2020

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

Sarah Frances Hicks, 2020

Erica McCay, 2020

Sammie Morris, 2020

Jennifer Paccione-Diaz, 2020

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

Ryan Rivas, 2020

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

Richard Koethe, 2019

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

  • 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

Rebecca Renner, 2018

Delila Smalley, 2018

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

Jared Alan Smith, 2018

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