Success After Susquehanna
Writers Institute graduates can boast of success in graduate school and career pursuits after Susquehanna.
Susquehanna graduates have won four Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards for poetry in the past seven years, and they have begun to publish in national magazines. One has recently won a national chapbook contest, and another a national magazine award for poetry. Two recent alums received book contracts and were published.
Graduates have secured jobs at magazines like Us Weekly and In Touch, as well as with publishers like Prentice Hall, Harper Collins and Simon & Schuster. They have become lawyers, teachers, editors, journalists, grant writers, copyeditors and advertising writers.
Creative Writing alumni have been accepted into some of the best graduate programs in the country:
2008
Columbia University – Christina Behnke, publishing
Accepted into multiple institutions – Meredith Blankinship, poetry
University of Iowa – Allison Harris, poetry,
Bucknell University – Patrick Henry, English
American University – Alyssa Kopanyi, fiction
University of Pittsburgh – Kate Manning, library science
Accepted into multiple institutions – Erica Reiss, counseling
University of Maryland – Alexandra Robinson, journalism
2007
The New School – Taryn Andrews, poetry
University of Houston– Jonathan Niles-Gill, fiction (fellowship)
University of Pittsburgh – Sal Pane, fiction
Georgia State College and University– Kelyn Stump, poetry (fellowship)
Denver Publishing Institute – Jen Quigley, publishing
2006
Emerson University – Erin Breznitsky, poetry
Rosemont University – Jennie Harris, publishing
Rutgers University– Ted Leimbach, Community Planning (fellowship)
University of Maryland – Phil Moyer, fiction
Colorado State University– Meredith Ripa, Poetry (assistantship)
Sarah Lawrence University– Emily Seibert, Creative Nonfiction (tuition remission)
Pratt Institute– Cassandra Smolcic, Graphic Design (tuition remission)
Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University – Kim Tomaszewski, Religious studies
