Emily Rapp joins UNM English as Russo Chair Professor

A former Fulbright scholar and graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and Still Point of the Turning World.  Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and Salon, among other publications.  She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a James Michener Fellowship at the University of Texas-Austin, and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University.  A professor of creative writing and literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a faculty member in the University of California-Riverside Low-Residency MFA Program, she joins UNM’s creative writing faculty as the Joseph M. Russo Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction.

Blue Mesa Review, Reviewed in NewPages.com

Blue Mesa Review, Issue 25, Spring 2012 www.unm.edu/~bluemesa
Review by David R. Matteri
Blue Mesa Review, a product of the creative writing program of the University of New Mexico, almost did not see publication this year. Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Rose Richardson reports that her fellow editors had to fight to keep their magazine alive during their school’s funding crisis: “They organized fund raisers, attended countless meetings, and they brainstormed in order to bring you this very issue you’re holding. Each editor gave above and beyond to ensure this issue had a chance to make it.” The folks at Blue Mesa have a lot to be proud of in this issue. The result of their hard work and dedication is a handsome journal with great content.

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Blue Mesa Review floats through Marigold parade

This past weekend, Sunday, November 4, members of the Blue Mesa Review's editorial board and friends participated in Albuquerque's Muertos y Marigolds Parade as part of the city's Día de los Muertos celebration. The theme of BMR's float was "Writers We Have Loved and Lost."

Dead writers in attendance included Willa Cather, Fernando Pessoa, Sylvia Plath, Ismat Chughtai, Emily Dickinson, and the Fitzgeralds. BMR editors enjoyed promoting the literary journal, which will be releasing its 26th issue online in December.

Adam Nunez & Bonnie Arning: MFA publications and awards

Adam Nunez had his poetry published in the Connecticut Review, Fall 2011 and LUMINA, Fall 2010. He also had a review published in Pleiades, Winter 2011. He also published a chap book, with associated reading series: Ghosts and Projectors, Spring 2012. Adam also received 2nd place in The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, October 2009, the Patricia Clark Smith Scholarship in Creative Writing, Spring 2011, and the Outstanding TA Award, Spring 2011. Adam was the Poetry Co-Editor for BMR, 2010-2011, and will have BA/MD GAship 2012.

Bonnie Arning will publish her poetery, "Lost Body," in Cream City Review, forthcoming fall 2012; and her fiction, "Bodies of Water," in Gargoyle Magazine, forthcoming fall 2012.

Blue Mesa Review: Online Issue!

Blue Mesa Review, the UNM Creative Writing program's student edited and produced Creative Writing Journal announces issue 25 is available online. Read the full issue at the BMR online site here.

Blue Mesa Review editorial and support staff:

Suzanne Richardson: Editor-in-Chief

Bonnie Arning: Managing Editor

Nora Hickey/Natalie Scenters-Zapico: Poetry Editors

Mike Smith/Ty Bannerman: NonFiction Editors

Katie Pelletier/Cody Davis: Fiction Editors

Dan Larson: Production Editor

Nick DePascal: Copy Editor

Nate Tremba, Andy Geary, Will DeBiasi: Interns

Justin St. Germain: Faculty Advisor

Blue Mesa Review in The Alibi

The English department's literary journal Blue Mesa Review is featured in The Alibi and includes an interview with Suzanne Richardson, MFA candidate in fiction writing and the editor in chief of the journal . Read the article here.

Visit Blue Mesa Review's website here.

Blue Mesa Review - Issue 23

Announcing the publication of Issue 23 of Blue Mesa Review. You can take a sneak peak at the contents on the Blue Mesa Review website here, or order your copies using the information on this page.

Blue Mesa Review is the English Department's annual national literary magazine and is edited and produced entirely by our Creative Writing students. Congratulations to the Blue Mesa staff:

Editor in Chief
Samantha Tetangco

Managing Editor
Suzanne Richardson

Production Editor
Dan Darling

Poetry Editor
Jennifer Krohn

NonFiction Editor
Nari Kirk


Copyeditor
Marisa P. Clark

Editorial Assistants/Interns
Production: Kimberly Keller
Poetry: Bob Sabatini
Prose: Joe Byrne, Aaron Espinosa, Lenore Gusch, Cody Jones, Monet Maloof, and Sarah Yasmin Osman
UNM Press Liason: Carmela Starace

Readers
Colleen Bazemore-Colclough, Randi Beck, Elizabeth Delorenzo, Aaron Espinosa, Casey Frank, Kathryn Hickling, Rachel Hill, Cody Jones, Cassandra Lopez, David Madan, Katlyn McKinney, Samuel Montoya, Delaine Mottershead, Victoria Brooke Rodrigues, Francesca Shirley, Jennifer Simpson, Elizabeth Tannen, and Tanaya Winder

Faculty Advisor
Marisa P. Clark