News About Undergraduate Alumni

Many English-Creative Writing alumni have gone on to receive full graduate assistantships/fellowships at top MFA programs across the country. Our undergrad alumni have also begun to publish their works in national literary journals and presses.

But our students have also pursued careers in teaching (both junior high and secondary education), library science, and other fields.

Jeff Boedeker (GC 2004), former editor of The Peacock's Feet, pursued an MFA in Film Production at Boston University and has gone on to produce many film projects, including work featured on The Discovery Channell. You can read more about him in an article featured in Georgia College's Connections magazine.

Another 2004 grad, Adam Selzer, has had quite an exciting career publishing several Young Adult novels (many with Random House) and other books that all reflect his intelligent, irreverent sense of humor and pop culture. Learn more about him and how to order his books at Adam's website.

More recently, poets Hali Sofala and Joshua Lavender (see photos, sidebar) have continued their creative writing studies in graduate school. Stay tuned for more info. Who knows? In four years, we may be highlighting YOU on these pages!

Many of our undergraduates go on to attend graduate programs in creative writing, such as Hali Sofala, who earned a full ride to the MFA Program at the University of Wisconsin and is currently working on a doctorate degree at the University of Nebraska.

Distinguished poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents undergraduate creative writing student Hali Sofala with the 2006 Academy of American Poets University Prize.

Joshua Lavender and Jamie Addy edited the 2008 Peacock's Feet. Lavender earned a full assistantship to the MFA Program at the University of Maryland, where he is studying poetry.