Alumni News

If you have alumni news to report, please email english.department@dartmouth.edu with a blurb written in third person, any relevant links, and the year you graduated in.

Eliana Ramage's first book To the Moon and Back is being published by Simon & Schuster.

Julia Whitworth  '93, who majored in English and drama, was ordained as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports.

Sadia Hassan, a poet and essayist, completed a creative nonfiction MFA at Mississippi with Kiese Laymon and has been regularly publishing poems and lyric essays. Here's a poem called "I, Aperture." 

Sarah Khatry was working as associate nonfiction editor of Guernica while in the MFA program at Iowa for nonfiction; here's a piece by the writer Morgan Parker she edited for the magazine. She is now a PhD candidate in the English Literary Studies & Creative Writing program at the University of Denver.

Svati Kirsten Narula published in Outside magazine a feature story for which she wrote the first draft ten years ago in Professor Sharlet's "Raising the Dead" class, an adventure tragedy of the death of a young climber, Nanda Devi, on the mountain after which she was named. Svati is now a contributing editor for Outside.  

Stephanie McFeeters is a managing editor of Harper's; here's a recent piece she worked on by the novelist Joy Williams, writing on Cormac McCarthy.

Parker Richards is now an opinion editor at the New York Times; he shares this piece as an example of the work he's been bringing into the paper.

Madison Pauly '15, whose creative writing won the Dartmouth English and Creative Writing Department's Sidney Cox Memorial Prize and was Runner-Up for the Mecklin Prize in Creative Nonfiction, is now an editor and writer at Mother Jones; here's a piece of hers on "Ron DeSantis's Relentless War Against Trans Kids." 

Matthew Brown is in his native Georgia as a special correspondent for a new Washington Post project dedicated to reporting on challenges to democracy in the U.S. Here's a profile of Fani Willis, the Fulton County D.A. investigating Trump, that he wrote. 

Janice Kai Chen '20, who won a Mecklin Prize from Dartmouth English and Creative Writing Department, draws on her experience in creative nonfiction and cutting-edge mapmaking technology, joined the Washington Post as a graphics reporter.

Leo Valdes, the first 40 Townser, is a PhD candidate in the Rutgers History Department and continues to draw on creative nonfiction in her public work, as in this short piece "A whole race called me faggot." 

Lindsay MacMillan quit her Goldman Sachs job to publish her first novel, a literary romantic comedy called The Heart of the Deal that became a bestseller; her second novel, Double-Decker Dreams was published by Penguin Random House.

Lexi Krupp covers the Northeast Kingdom for VPR. If you listen to VPR, you'll hear her radio pieces often. Here's a piece she did of a series of audio portraits of Vermonters lost to Covid.  

Savannah Maher is a radio reporter for Marketplace, a board member of Native American Journalists, and an instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. You can hear her frequently on NPR; here's an investigative narrative she wrote on prosecution of Native treaty hunters in Wyoming for High Country News.