Sunday’s Free Lance-Star featured book reviews by Ashley Riggleson, UMW ’18 with a major in English, and Dan Dervin, Professor Emeritus of English.Riggleson’s review of Finna by Nate Marshall is available online.Dervin’s review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd is also available online.
Joey LoMonaco ’13 has been named 2019 Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year by the Virginia Press Association for his work at the Free Lance-Star.Joey was an English: Creative Writing major at UMW and graduated cum laude in 2013.The press release for LoMonaco’s award reads: In nominating LoMonaco for Outstanding Young Journalist of […]
Casey Pherson, a class of 2008 UMW graduate with a BA in English, earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Emory & Henry in August 2020.After UMW, Casey earned an MA in Applied Linguistics: Sociolinguistics from Old Dominion University in 2010 and worked for several years as a physical therapy technician.The Department of English […]
Alexandria Riker just published her first short story “Coming Home” in the online magazine The Literary Garden, Issue 4 and can be read online.A December 2018 magna cum laude graduate, Alexandria was an English: Creative Major who worked with Professor Warren Rochelle and was part of the study abroad program that he led in the summer […]
Krista Beucler ’20 recently published her first short story, a piece that originated in her first creative writing class at the University of Mary Washington with Professor Warren Rochelle. Krista completed her degree this spring with a major in English: Creative Writing and minors in Spanish and Museum Studies. While at UMW, Krista was the […]
