Things I’m thankful for:

• I’ve just sent Arts & Letters the proof of my essay “Hunger.” I’m so excited to have my essay in their spring issue!
• One of my advisers, Joy Castro, wrote about my capstone oral for my comprehensive exams, which took place at the end of October.
• I’m officially ABD! Or, as Joy called it in her post, All but done. Yippee!!
• As part of my residency this past summer is: My poem “Maternal Lineage” is up on the National Park Service’s Herbert Hoover Historic Site website (a residency which was mentioned in USA Today. Wow). There’s an audio file of it too:

Maternal Lineage

• Split This Rock accepted the panel proposal I and two other fantastic poets submitted. We’re doing a panel on writing the activist body. It’s going to be super fun!
• My wonderful adviser Carole Levin has motivated me to look into fellowships. Thanks Carole!
• The amazing editors at Pudding House and Dancing Girl Press are publishing my chapbooks Ghost Girl and My Imaginary, respectfully.
• A short story I wrote has been accepted for the Fall 2009 Relief Anthology, edited by J. K. Richard. Yeah!
• And of course: my sweet A.