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Faculty News
Public Schools (Dzanc Books) was pub-
lished in March to rave reviews from
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and
Chicago Review of Books. You can also
listen to recent radio interviews on
WDET and Michigan Radio.
Doris Plantus has been offered two
book contracts for her sequel to the
Siihastrul novella series, and another for
an original work called The Istova
Woman. She wrote the novel years ago,
and then adapted it to a screenplay, then
rewrote the screenplay back into novel
form again (what goes around comes
around...).
tribution to the Scribner's American Writers
Retrospective Supplement III volume is forth-
coming, and Editor Jay Parini had invited
her to contribute a biographical essay
Edith Wharton.
Alison Powell has a poem forth-
coming in A Public Space that's about
the woolly rhinoceros and has just
completed a writer's residency at
Hill House Artist's Residency as part
of the Crosshatch Center for Art
and Ecology.
Kathleen Pfeiffer was an invited partici-
pant in the Liberty Fund Colloquium
"Liberty and Responsibility in the Politi-
cal Thought of Frederick Douglass" in
Indianapolis. The invitation-only event
brought together 15 scholars
from various disciplines to discuss a set
of common texts from Douglass's writ-
ings, with the shared goal of understand-
ing his views on liberty, responsibility and
engaged citizenship. Pfeiffer has
also been invited to teach in the Ashland
University Graduate Program in Ameri-
can History and Government this sum-
mer, as part of an newly developed offer-
ing in American History and Literature.
Her flash memoir appeared in The Sun
Magazine's March "Reader's Write" seg-
ment on "Leaps of Faith," and her con-
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