Alumni News

Ray Salazar (MAW '03) presented at the 32nd Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, an event organized by the Illinois Resource Center, a major IL agency providing educational services. The presentation, titled "Blowing UP the Canon: Broadening the Concept of Literary Merit," provided high school teachers with examples of how non-canonical writers of color are incorporated into rigorous high school curricula.

Grete Scott (MAW '06) is finishing her classwork in the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech and is also busy teaching a range of first-year writing classes there. In addition, she and her husband Aaron are expecting their first child in August.

Ann Swindell (MAW '08) is currently teaching as an adjunct professor of composition and research at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

Ryan Van Meter (MAW '05) has work in the current issues of The Gettysburg Review and The Southeast Review, and forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Ascent, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters and Seneca Review. His essay "Lake Effect," originally published in Indiana Review was selected as a Notable Essay of 2008 in the current edition of Best American Essays.