Olive Ayhens’ (03) solo exhibition, Perilous World of Olive Ayhens, was shown at the Lockhart Gallery in Genesco, NY.

Adrienne Albert’s (07) Animalogy was a winner of the Aeros Quintet Competition and was performed by the Aeros Quintet at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in May. Her work Wind and Tides premiered at the Cal State Northridge Faculty Artist Series.

Polly Apfelbaum (84) and Jean Lowe (05) were recently included in a group exhibition, POST DEC, at the Joseloff Gallery in Hartford..

Charlotte Bacon’s (04, 98) novel, Split Estate, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Two of Barbara Baer’s (04) public sculptures were placed in Denver, Natural World at 1999 Broadway Building and Skeezix at The Pinnacle in City Park South.

Annie Baker’s (08) play Body Awareness debuted at the Atlantic Theater Company in May. Her play Circle Mirror Transformation was chosen for the Sundance 2008 Theater Lab.

Margot Balboni’s (98, 07) The American-Made Alphabet was shown at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME and at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery.

Marianne Barcellona (06) was part of a group show, Natural Instincts, at the Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery in Kent, Connecticut.

Tanya Barfield’s (06) play, Of Equal Measure, won an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and opened at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles.

Douglas Carter Beane (05) was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical, for Xanadu.

Jan Beatty’s (93, 97, 00) third book of poems, Red Sugar, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Eve Beglarian’s (96) Landscaping For Privacy premiered at the Flea Theater in New York, and her piece Osculati Founiture was presented by the MAYO Trio at the Judson Church in New York.

Linda Behar’s (93) Embroideries from Nature was shown at the Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge.

A solo show of work by Ann Belov (83) took place at the Waterworks Gallery in Harbor, WA.

Lorna Bieber’s (97, 01) work was shown in a group exhibition at the C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore. Her solo show, Houses and Trees, was at the Box Gallery in Santa Fe.

Lisa Bielawa’s (04) latest recording, A Handful of World, was recently released on Tzadik.

Work by Pamela Blotner (02) was exhibited in a solo show, The Fox’s Wedding, at the Quicksilver Mine Co, Forestville, CA.

Charles Bock’s (01) novel Beautiful Children was published by Random House.

Pip Brant’s (93, 96) work was featured at Abba Fine Art in Miami.

Halsey Burgund’s (07) audio installation, ROUND, opened at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT.

Stephanie Cardon’s (05) photography is currently on view at ICP’s Education Gallery in New York through Dec. 27.

J.R. Carpenter’s (06) story, Wyoming is Haunted was published in Carte Blanche, the online literary review of the Quebec Writer’s Federation.

Maud Casey (02) won the third annual Calvino Prize for an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Fugueur.

John Catterall’s (01) work was included in a group exhibition at Robert Morris University’s Media Arts Gallery in Pittsburgh.

Lan Samantha Chang (00) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mark Christopher’s (06) film Heartland premiered on the LOGO Network in October.

Susan Choi’s (01) book A Person of Interest was published by Viking.

Hannah Cole’s (05) paintings were featured at the Proof Gallery in Boston, Artspace in New Haven and The Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

Cecelia Condit’s (08) video, Annie Lloyd, debuted during her first solo show at the Cue Art Foundation in New York.

Catherine Courtenaye’s (91) work was recently on view at the Bentley Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ.

Andrea Clearfield’s (05, 08) Kabo Omowale, commissioned by the Philadelphia Symphony, premiered at the Gordon Theatre at the Rutgers Center for the Arts in Camden, NJ. 

Todd Craig’s (02) first novel, tor-cha, was released by Swank Books.

Work by Janet Culbertson (89, 99), was shown at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, NY, the Accola Contemporary in New York, the East End Arts Council Gallery in Riverhead, NY, and El Galería Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Sandra Dal Poggetto (03) was featured in Natural Inclinations at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, MT.

Hilary DePolo’s (05) prose was presented in Character Sketches at the Loveland  Museum/Gallery. Her poems were featured in the Past Lives exhibition at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center in Greenwood Village, CO.

Jane Waggoner Deschner’s (03, 06) work, Inexhaustible Invitations, is on view at the Ampersand Vintage Gallery in Portland, OR through December 24. She has an upcoming exhibition at the Lorinda Knight Gallery in Spokane.

Rebecca Doughty’s (07) new drawings, Tinies, were exhibited at the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery. Tiny Pieces was exhibited at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.

A retrospective of Joellyn Duesberry’s (07) paintings, The Big Picture, took place at the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood, CO. A Covenant of Seasons was shown at the Ucross Art Gallery and the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, MT.

Jessica Dunne’s (94, 04, 07) exhibit Paintings and Prints was shown at the Commonweal Gallery in Bolinas, CA. An exhibition of her work will open at the Ucross Art Gallery on January 23, 2009.

Heidi Durrow (08) was the recipient of Barbara Kingsolver’s 2008 Bellwether Prize for her novel-in-progress, Light-Skinned-ed Girl.

Split Infinitive, an exhibition by Nancy Ennis (93), was displayed at El Galería Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Joey Fauerso’s (05) work was included in A Moment of Clarity at the Hogar Collection in NYC.

Thomas Faulkner’s (86) work was shown in ReUNION at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Carlos Ferguson’s (99) work was included in a group exhibition at the Sculpture Space Gallery in New York.

Forked Tongue, a new CD by the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, led by Ken Field (03), was released by Cuneiform Records.

Alex Forman (06) participated in the Padua Playwrights and Ladad Space presentation of A Thousand Words, nine short plays inspired by downtown artists, at Art Share L.A.

Chuck Forsman (86) and Kevin O’Connell (07) were part of a group show, Dialog: Denver, at the Robischon Gallery in Denver.

Ricky Ian Gordon’s (02, 05) latest recording, and flowers pick themselves, (with soprano Melanie Helton) was released in October. His work Green Sneakers was premiered at the Vail Music Festival.

Kirsten Greenidge’s (02) play Bossa Nova was selected for the Sundance Theater Lab.

David Grimm’s (01) play Steve and Idi premiered at the Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater in NYC.

Laura Guese’s (07) paintings were featured at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, the Space Gallery in Denver, and at the Indigo Gallery in Fort Collins, CO.

Jean Gumpper’s (01) recent work was exhibited at the William Havu Gallery in Denver, at the Flint Institute of Fine Arts, MN, and at the Davidson Galleries in Seattle.

Jennifer Haigh’s (05) novel The Condition was published by HarperCollins.

Work by Susan Hamburger (05) was featured at the Mixed Greens Gallery in New York and the Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art Gallery in Easton, PA.

Barbara Hammer (07) was honored with a Leo Dratfield Award.

Christine Hiebert’s (98) work was shown at the Margarete Roeder Gallery in New York.

Leslie Hirst’s (03) work was exhibited at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York.

Fred Ho (05) and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble recently presented the 25th Anniversary Celebration Revolutionary Earth Music at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York.

Tony Hoagland (02) won the second annual Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers.

Mike Holober (07) and The Gotham Jazz Orchestra presented his multi-movement piece Hiding Out, at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s (08) novel, 19 Names for Our Band, was published by Fence Books.

Three installations by Ethan Jackson (07) were exhibited in Portland at galleryHOMELAND, 1313 West Burnside Studios, and Orbis Viridis Obscurus at the New American Art Union.   

Christopher Jentsch’s (07) Brooklyn Suite premiered at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn. His Cycles Suite premiered at The Kitchen in NYC.

Regin Igloria’s (07) Lost and Found was exhibited at the Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, and The Legacy of Mountainous Prairies was at the ZG Gallery in Chicago.

The work of Maddine Insalaco (06) and Joe Vinson (06), Open Air Painting from Italy: A Continuing Tradition, was exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA.

A story by Ha Jin (97), The House Behind a Weeping Cherry, appeared in The New Yorker.

Chavawn Kelley (04) was awarded a Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship.

Paintings by Karen Kitchel (03, 06) were exhibited at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, and will be featured at the Nevada Museum of Art from January – May, 2009.

Pat Kikut (02) was part of the Artist Point exhibition at the College of Santa Fe Gallery.

Suki Kim’s (98, 05) Letter from PyongYang appears in the December issue of Harper’s.

Michelle Kong’s (07) work was shown at the Samek Gallery in Lewisburg, PA.

Josh Kun’s (05, 07) new book, And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl, was published by Crown.

Sara Shoemaker Lind’s (08) solo show, A Mermaid’s View, was shown at the San Mateo City Hall Gallery and will be on view at the San Mateo Main Library Gallery through January 5, 2009.

Work by Tracy Linder (07), Patrick Smith (05), Jane Waggoner Deschner (03) and Gordon McConnell (00, 03) was shown at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery, Billings, MT.

Pam Longobardi’s (86) Drifters was exhibited at the Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, TN.

Jean Lowe’s (05) Love for Sale opened at the Quint Gallery of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, CA.

Craig Lucas’ (01) new drama, Prayer for My Enemy, opened at Playwrights Horizons. 

Keeril Makan (08) was awarded the 2008-2009 Rome Prize in music by the American Academy in Rome. His recording In Sound was released by Tzadik Records.

Gordon McConnell’s (00, 03) paintings were shown at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery and at Mountain Trails Gallery in Jackson, WY.

Andrew Millner’s (99) Biophilia was displayed at the Tria Gallery in New York and the William Shearbury Gallery in Santa Fe. It was also exhibited at Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis, the Collectors Contemporary in Singapore, and the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.

Bronwyn Minton’s (02) recent work was shown at the Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary in Jackson, Wyoming.

Jiha Moon (03) had several solo shows including No Peach Heaven, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Vantage Point VII, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, and Megaxiscape: Special Project, Moti Hasson Gallery, NYC.

Honor Moore’s (06) memoir The Bishop’s Daughter was published by W.W. Norton.

Bill Morrison’s (03, 07) Lightning at Our Feet, inspired by the work of Emily Dickinson, was performed at BAM’s Harvey Theatre.

Timothy Nolan (01) was included in an exhibition, Non-Obstructive, at the Irvine Fine Arts Center.

Ann Northrup’s (07) mural The Heart of Kensington was dedicated on June 14 in Pittsburgh, PA. An exhibition of her paintings, Confluence, was on view at the Lewis and Clark Historic Site and Museum in Hartford, IL.

Kevin O’Connell’s (07) In Between Days was recently shown at the Platform Gallery in Seattle.

Laurie Olinder (03) was included in The Paint Show at La MaMa’s La Galleria in NYC.

Cecily Parks’ (07) Field Folly Snow was published by University of Georgia Press.

Ann Patchett’s (93) novel, Run, was published in paperback by Harper Perennial and her nonfiction book What Now? was published by HarperCollins.

Joan Perlman’s (99) paintings were exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, CA, the Wave Hill Gallery in the Bronx, NY, the DCP Project Space in San Francisco and the Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work is currently on view at Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles through December 20.

Gunnar Plake’s (97) Grand Canyon Series, The Space Between, was featured at the Chiaroscuro Gallery in Santa Fe.

Nolan Preece’s (89) Simple System was exhibited at the OSX Gallery, Carson City, NV and Nevada Sky/Nevada Walls: Photographic Works, opened at the E.L. Weigand Gallery, Fallon, NV.

Annie Proulx’s (90, 92) new collection, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3, was published by Scribner.

Joshua Reiman’s (08) work was exhibited at the Meyers Gallery at the University of Cincinnati.

Susan Rich’s (07) The Alchemist’s Kitchen will be published by White Pine Press in 2010.

Edwardo Santiere’s (04) Draw In was exhibited at Haim Chanin Fine Arts in New York.

An exhibition of Tad Savinar’s (97) work, Not Just Another Pretty Picture, was on view at PDX Contemporary Art in Portland.

Pieces by J. Mark Scearce (08) premiering this year included Postcards for Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony, Hickory, NC, and Str Qt Nr 2 (Atlantis), Borromeo Quartet, Bargemusic, Brooklyn.

Gary Schanbacher’s (08) collection of stories, Migration Patterns, won the 2007 Colorado Book Award in General Fiction and the High Plains Book Award for Best First Book.

Bart Schneider’s (05) novel, The Man in the Blizzard, was published by Three Rivers Press.

Photography by Ernesto Scott (04) was featured at the Singing Dog Gallery in Newberry, MI.

Pamela Kendall Schiffer’s (08) paintings were shown at The Easton Gallery in Santa Barbara.

Expressions in Time, an exhibition of paintings by Carol Schwennesen (07) was on display at The Shady Lady on Vashon Island, Washington.

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz’s (00) solo work, Surface to Air, was displayed at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

Lindy Smith (96, 04) was featured in a group show, Four Summer, at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York.

Photography by Patrick Smith (05), At the Ends of the Earth, was shown at the Dufresne and Cobb Foundations Gallery.

Randal Stoltzfus (04) was featured in The Magic Hour at the Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery in New York. He also participated in the Dumbo Art Center’s Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn.

Caitlin Strokosch (05) was appointed Executive Director of the Alliance of Artist Communities.

Manil Suri’s (03, 07) novel, The Age of Shiva, was published by W.W. Norton.

Hannah Tinti’s (06) novel, The Good Thief, was published by The Dial Press.

Gregor Turk’s (97), Interstate 50 and [Blank], was shown at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery in Atlanta.

Paintings by Merrill Wagner (02) were exhibited at the Lesley Heller Gallery in NYC and the New Arts Gallery in Litchfield, CT.

Collidescape by Sarah Walker (93, 05) was shown at the Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, and Beacons, Floaters and Lost Objects was on view at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.

G.C.Waldrep’s (07) new book, Disclamor, was recently published by BOA Editions.

Tracey Scott Wilson’s (03) play, The Good Negro, was presented at the Public Theater in New York.