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Patrick Chura, (MA 1992), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. His book Vital Contact: Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright was published by Routledge in 2005.
jpc@uakron.edu 

Shawn Conner, (BA 2001)I completed an MA in Comparative Literature at Indiana University-Bloomington in December 2006. In January 2007, I was appointed as Assistant Director of Marketing and Recruitment for the Undergraduate Program at Indiana University's prestigious Kelley School of Business. I also currently serve as an adjunct instructor of Professional Writing with the Department of English at Indiana University.
 

Rebecca Dunham, (PhD 2006), received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry. She was awarded the 2005 Indiana Poetry Review Prize for her sequence of poems, “Box Series.”  She was also selected to be one of three fellows at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. The fellowship is given to writers who have completed an MFA or PhD degree in creative writing but not yet published a book. Rebecca's collection "The Miniature Room" won the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize and is being published by Truman State UP. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the doctoral program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her second book of poems, The Flight Cage, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.
 

Katherine Dykstra, (BA 1999) Living in New York, Katherine Dykstra is a freelance writer and editor and a creative writing teacher. She is contributing editor at Guernicamag.com and a contributing writer at The New York Post. Her essay “In, From the Outside” was recently published in the anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House).
 

Pamela Garvey, (MA 1994), Chapbook of poems, entitled Fear, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2008.
 

Teresa Hjellming, (BA 1990), teaches at Cairo American College, an American international high school in Egypt.
 

Andrew Kenyon, (BA 2005), is an editorial assistant at SUNY Press in Albany, NY, a university press publishing around 200 books each year predominantly in the humanities and social sciences.
andrew.kenyon@sunypress.edu 

Tim Kridel, (BA 1992)Based in Columbia, Tim Kridel is a free-lance writer specializing in telecom. His clients include analyst firms, telecom equipment vendors and magazines such as Laptop, Multichannel News, Pro AV and Telephony.
 

Marilyn Hope Lake, (PhD ) Marilyn Hope Lake's book, Buddy and the Grandcats, has been published by Compass Rose Publications. Buddy and the Grandcats is a delightful story of an adult terrier whose home is "invaded" by not one, but two adult cats. With insight and humor, the author and illustrator explore the issue of "blended" families. Dr. Lake's book is illustrated by her husband Denton Warn. It is available at the University Bookstore or by contacting info@compassrosepublications.
 

John H. Lamming, (BA 1976) (also BS, MS, and JD), is currently Corporate Counsel for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in patents and a variety of intellectual property transactions including licensing and technology and business alliances. Prior to joining DuPont, he was Associate General Counsel at Washington University (St. Louis) and specialized in intellectual property and legal aspects of university scientific and medical research, and was also an adjunct assistant professor of political science and instructor of a research practicum for JD and LLM candidates. A resident of the village of Hockessin, Delaware, he remains a voracious reader and loves “languages and literature as much as [he] did as an undergrad at Missouri.”
 

Clifford Manlove, (PhD 1999)Clifford Manlove earned tenure at Penn State University, July, 2007, and has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of English. Manlove has taught writing, Twentieth-Century literature, and film studies at the Greater Allegheny campus of Penn State, in Pittsburgh (formerly known as Penn State McKeesport), since 2001.
 

Shawn Mitchell, (BA 2006), is working at Sarah Lazin Books, a literary agency in New York that represents adult narrative non-fiction in the primary areas of popular culture, biography, social issues and music reference, as well as fiction and the occasional photography book. He lives in Brooklyn and is looking for new authors and projects.
shawn@lazinbooks.com 

Jennifer (Zarrelli) Parsons, (BA 1992), is now a Project Manager with SH3, Inc., in Kansas City, MO. She lives in Holden, MO, with her husband Brian, who is the Quality Assurance Manager at Billy Goat Industries in Lee's Summit, MO. They have a two-year-old son, Seth. Jennifer also does freelance proofreading and manuscript compilation for the Calendar division of Andrews McMeel Publishing, in Kansas City.
j.m.parsons@hotmail.com 

Jared Reed, (BA 1996). After spending several years working in Europe, Jared settled in St. Louis and works for Outrider, an international digital marketing agency, as a copywriter.
 

Stephen C. Tinsley, (BA 2006), is a co-owner of Columbia Couriers, Columbia, MO's first bicycle messenger service, specializing in urgent point to point delivery. http://www.columbiacouriers.com
columbiacouiers@gmail.com 

Anthony Washington, (BA 2002)Anthony "Kuma" Washington, (BA 2002), earned his MPA with an emphasis in Education Policy at Bernard Baruch. He lives in New York working as a Career Training Specialist and Curriculum Designer. Poetry is still in his soul. Links:

• http://nuf.org/2006_class/washington_a.asp
  
• http://www.kcunitedway.org/fish.htm