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Faculty News Public Schools (Dzanc Books) was pub- lished in March to rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Chicago Review of Books. You can also listen to recent radio interviews on WDET and Michigan Radio. Doris Plantus has been offered two book contracts for her sequel to the Siihastrul novella series, and another for an original work called The Istova Woman. She wrote the novel years ago, and then adapted it to a screenplay, then rewrote the screenplay back into novel form again (what goes around comes around...). tribution to the Scribner's American Writers Retrospective Supplement III volume is forth- coming, and Editor Jay Parini had invited her to contribute a biographical essay Edith Wharton. Alison Powell has a poem forth- coming in A Public Space that's about the woolly rhinoceros and has just completed a writer's residency at Hill House Artist's Residency as part of the Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology. Kathleen Pfeiffer was an invited partici- pant in the Liberty Fund Colloquium "Liberty and Responsibility in the Politi- cal Thought of Frederick Douglass" in Indianapolis. The invitation-only event brought together 15 scholars from various disciplines to discuss a set of common texts from Douglass's writ- ings, with the shared goal of understand- ing his views on liberty, responsibility and engaged citizenship. Pfeiffer has also been invited to teach in the Ashland University Graduate Program in Ameri- can History and Government this sum- mer, as part of an newly developed offer- ing in American History and Literature. Her flash memoir appeared in The Sun Magazine's March "Reader's Write" seg- ment on "Leaps of Faith," and her con- 29