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Role: Graduate Students

Michael Pounders

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Michael Pounders is a first year M.A. student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communications. He graduated from UW-Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2017 with a degree in Secondary English Education. After teaching high school and middle school English, Michael came to Iowa State...

Aimee Burch

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Aimee Burch is a first year MFA student who embraces her identity as a “native Illinoisan, adopted Iowan.” Originally from Springfield, Illinois, Aimee has toured all the major Lincoln sites and eaten plenty of horseshoes (look it up if you’re...

Nancy Hayes

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Nancy Hayes grew up on the banks of the Mississippi in Davenport, Iowa. She earned a BA in English from Smith College, an MA in English from the University of Connecticut, and after nine years of teaching English in southern...

Ana McCracken

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Ana McCracken comes to the creative writing and environment program as a non-fiction candidate far removed from her undergraduate years. Since graduating from Iowa State with a B.S. in Fashion Merchandising, McCracken has held careers as a retail buyer, director...

Courtney Reeves

Graduate Student [EDUC]

Courtney Reeves is a second year graduate student working on her MA in English and minor in Education. She is currently teaching SP CM 212. She loves being back at ISU while learning new things and stretching her knowledge. She...

Eric Williams

Graduate Student [JL MC]

Eric Williams is a first-year candidate for fiction in Iowa State’s MFA in Creative Writing and Environment. He also holds a BA in Modern Literature from UC Santa Cruz. He writes speculative fiction and essays about a future in which...

Brianna Stoever

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Brianna Stoever is a recent graduate of Simpson College in Indianola and has a BA in both English and Theatre. Growing up on the southside of Des Moines, she was always imagining different landscapes and hoping to save the rainforest...

Dan Pankratz

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Dan Pankratz currently pursues an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment. As a social worker for five years, he served needy populations at homeless shelters, transitional homes, and mental health institutions in a number of capacities: support staff, brunch cook,...

Riley Morsman

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Riley Morsman is a recent graduate of Kansas State University where she received her BA in English with minors in Nonprofit Leadership and American Ethnic Studies (although she argues that she also deserves a minor in Architecture after spending four...

Richard Frailing

Education Extension Specialist Ii [A&BE]

Richard Frailing is a first year poetry student in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment. He hopes to push his narrative poetry further into the blurry space between poetry and lyrical nonfiction. His undergraduate education in both biology...

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