2018 Catapult Writing Program Alumni Accomplishments

• Nadya Agrawal’s “True Feminism Means Holding Our Women Leaders Accountable” was published by HuffPost; she also edits Kajal Magazine, which just turned four

• Megan Angelo’s debut novel Followers will be published by Graydon House

• Nabil Ayers’ “Coming of Age in the Loft Jazz Scene” was published by The New York Times, “A Family Tree With Roots Deep In Slavery” was published by NPR’s Code Switch, and “Why The Lead Singer of Imagine Dragons Is Fighting for LGBTQ Rights” was published by Vulture

• Hannah Bae received a scholarship to the 2018 Slice Literary Writers’ Conference and was selected as an Open City Neighborhoods Fellow by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop

• JoAnn Balingit will be a Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence in April, working on her memoir

• Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi’s autobiographical novella Ayat was a finalist for the Chautauqua Foundation’s Janus Prize and excerpts were short-listed for Redivider‘s 2018 Beacon Street Prize; excerpts are also forthcoming in PANK’s spring 2019 issue

• Natalka Burian’s A Woman’s Drink was published by Chronicle Books

• Lorea Canales’ “Kilimanjaro” was published in the anthology Unrepentant Times

• Maisy Card’s debut novel These Ghosts Are Family will be published by Simon & Schuster

• Michael Carroll’s short story collection Stella Maris and Other Key West Stories will be published in April 2019 by Turtlepoint Press

• Yvonne Conza’s “I Am Here” was published by Cosmonauts Avenue, “Through the Cracks” was published by Joyland, and another essay is forthcoming in Longreads; she also interviewedChelsea Hodson for The Rumpus and Lacy M. Johnson, Leslie Jamison, and A.M. Homes forElectric Literature

• Saumya Dave’s debut novel Well-Behaved Indian Women will be published by Berkley/Penguin Random House

• Nana Dooreck’s book Saved as Draft will be published in spring 2019

• Carolyn Edgar’s “Cruel and Inhuman Treatment” was published in Creative Nonfiction’s True Storyand was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

• Kate Finegan’s chapbook The Size of Texas was published by Penrose Press; she also joinedLongleaf Review as Assistant Fiction Editor and published flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a variety of venues

• Jen Gilman-Porat’s “The Neanderthal” was published by Longreads

• M. Leona Godin’s Seeing & Not-Seeing: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness will be published by Pantheon

• Alisha Haridasani Gupta’s “What Comes After LaCroix?” was published by The New Yorker

• Rachel Harrison’s debut novel The Return will be published by Berkley/Penguin Random House

• Alison Hart’s “How to Write a #MeToo Story” was published by Lit Hub and “The Blue House” was published by Vol. 1 Brooklyn

• Julia Hirsch’s “Vanity” was published by Blue Lake Review

• Sarah Hutchins’ “The Wallet” was published by Superstition Review

• Emily James’ “The Mess We’re In” was published by Hippocampus, “Deck” was published byAtticus Review, and “Sangre” received honorable mention in the Pigeon Pages flash contest judged by Alexander Chee; she’s also now an MFA candidate at City College of New York

• JiJi Lee’s “Where to Cry in an Open Office” and “How to Get Out of a Hammock” were published by The New York Times, “Staycation Romance” and “Your Duolingo Reminders” were published byThe New Yorker, and “Google Translate for My Asian Parents” (co-written with Irving Ruan) was published by McSweeney’s

• Adam Linn’s “The Blind Man’s French Dog Problem” was published by The New York Times

• Chris Lorraine’s “Palms” was published by Cosmonauts Avenue

• Pooja Makhijani’s essay “The Path to an American Dream, Paved in Vienna Fingers” was published by The New York Times, and she 2018 Family Resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm

• Lynda Montgomery’s “Left Open” was published by december

• Taylor Moore’s “Finally, Transracial Adoptees Can See Ourselves Reflected in Literature” was published by Electric Literature

• Caitlin Mullen’s debut novel Please See will be published by Scout Press

• Jenny Nelson’s “Why you should be rooting for Catherine Cohen in 2019” was published by FADER

• Kimarlee Nguyen received a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship

• Daniela Petrova’s debut novel Her Mother’s Daughter will be published by Putnam

• Katie Runde’s “Sun and Shade” was published by Storyscape Literary Journal and “Wait Time”was published by Pithead Chapel

• Camila Santos’ “A Better Son” was published by Columbia Journal

• Julia Shiota’s “Passing” was published by Ploughshares

• Karen Stefano’s memoir What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault will be published by Rare Bird Books

• Carolyn Sun received a writing residency from The Corporation of Yaddo

• Kelli Trapnell received a NYFA fellowship in fiction

• Sharon Wexler’s “Oysters in the Gowanus” was published by Neworld Review

• Holly Woodward’s “Love Trouble” was published by Literal Latté and “Sex for Beginners” was published by Red Fez; she also has work forthcoming in The Shrew, Eye Flash’s heart anthology, and Curating Alexandria

• Emily Wortman-Wunder’s “Endangered Fish of the Colorado River” won The Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction Contest and “The Photo Op” was published by Cold Mountain Review; she has essays forthcoming in Kenyon Review online and Creative Nonfiction

• Vonetta Young’s “You Are Not a Real Writer” was published by BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog, “Why, As A Millennial, It Was Vital For Me To Own A Home” was published by Blavity, “July 11th, 2008”was published by Past Ten, “Who is deserving of my spare change?” was published by Fathom Mag, “The Right of Way” was published by Lunch Ticket, and “I Help You” was published by Cosmonauts Avenue

• Julie Zuckerman’s short story collection The Book of Jeremiah was a runner up for Press 53’s Award for Short Fiction, and they’ll publish the book in early 2019

On Catapult.co

• Natalie Bauer, “15 Minutes with Arturo Talavera, Mexico City’s Photography Master”

• Lorraine Berry, “The Pain Clinic” and “Nietzsche and Kanye Don’t Know Shit About My Migraine Pain”

• Manuel Betancourt had a column called Movie-Made Gay

• Carla Bruce-Eddings, “‘Words Are Wind’: How Do You Help a Child Cultivate Both Confidence and Kindness?”

• Melissa Dahl, “Why Do Our Faces Turn Bright Red at the Exact Moment We Wish We Could Disappear?”

• Adrian Daub, “Children of ‘The Cloud’ and Major Tom: Growing Up in the ’80s Under the German Sky”

• Rachel Dickinson, “After My Son’s Suicide, I’m Learning to Navigate Emotional Minefields in My Home”

• Janet Frishberg, “Get Down to Work or God Help You: Reading Etty Hillesum”

• M. Leona Godin had a column called A Blind Writer’s Notebook

• Taylor Harris had a column called What Genes Can’t Tell Us

• Sophie He, “What Wong Kar-wai’s Films Meant to Young Asians in America”

• Jessica Jacolbe, “Finding My Voice as a Filipino Through the Kundiman and Karaoke”

• Abby Johnston, “What I Would See if I Looked in the Mirror of Erised”

• Andra Nicolescu, “The Dead and Other Unchosen Things”

• Gulnaz Saiyed, “‘Parrot Isn’t Hungry’: On Family, Food, Fasting, and Ramadan”

• Tasha Kerry Smith, “Not Everything Legal is Clean”

• Anne Valente, “The Male Gaze: Objectification in the Narrative World”

• Rachel Veroff, “15 Minutes with Doug Schultz, a Ballet Class Pianist”