Professor Ted Anton’s essay, “Riff,” will appear in a book that just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, called One Word: Writers on the Words They Love and Loathe, (Sarabande Books, due November 2010).

Professor Amina Gautier won the 2010 Flanner O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Read more here: http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/08/flannery-oconnor-short-fiction-award.html

Professor Rebecca Johns Trissler is anticipating the launch of her new novel, The Countess, published by Crown. She also has a forthcoming story, “Perpetua in Glory,” appearing in the winter 2010-11 issue of Ploughshares.