Authors and Artists

Fall 2016

Books

Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design

Worship Space Acoustics (Springer, 2016) by David T. Bradley ’01, associate professor of physics at Vassar College, presents the acoustical and architectural design of a wide variety of individual worship space venues. The book includes essays on topics ranging from the soundscape of worship spaces to ecclesiastical design at the turn of the 21st century as well as detailed renderings and architectural drawings, informative acoustic data graphs, and evocative descriptions of the spaces. This is Bradley’s second book.

Summer 2016

Books

A Day and Night in the …

Prolific children’s book author/illustrator Caroline Scheaffer Arnold ’66 has published two series of animal board books that were rewritten for younger readers. From the habitat series: A Day and Night in the Rain Forest, A Day and Night in the Desert, A Day and Night on the Prairie, and A Day and Night in the Forest (Capstone: Picture Window Books, 2015). From the animal series: A Zebra’s World, A Panda’s World, A Polar Bear’s World, and A Penguin’s World (Capstone: Picture Window Books, 2015). Arnold also authored Living Fossils: Clues to the Past, illustrated by Andrew Plant (Charlesbridge, February 2016).

A Rogue’s Revenge

Cara Rowe Hoch ’11 has published her second Regency romance novel, A Rogue’s Revenge (Corvallis Press, 2016). It is currently available for Kindle, with the print version to follow.

Clear Day in January

Mark S. Maire ’78 won the 2015 Emergence Chapbook Series Prize for his poetry collection, Clear Day in January (Red Dragonfly Press, 2016).

Home Studies

Julie Gard ’95 published her first full-length book of prose poetry, Home Studies (New River Press, 2015), winner of the 2013 Many Voices Project Prize at New Rivers Press. Themes in the book include LGBT parenting, long-term partnership, surviving a hate crime, and international adoption.

One Life

Matthew Brennan ’77 has a new book of poems, One Life (Lamar University Press, 2016). He has previously published four books of poems and two chapbooks. He is professor of English at Indiana State University.

Playing It Safe

Nelson Ogbuagu ’16, an economics major, won the 2016 Associated Colleges of the Midwest Nick Adams Short Story Contest and earned a $1,000 prize. His story, “Playing It Safe,” was selected from 32 submissions. Grace Lloyd ’16, an English and theatre double major, won an honorable mention for her story, “Crush.”

Country Comes to Town

Jeremy Hill ’98 argues that country music has found such expansive success because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as geographic change. In Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans developed a flexible idea of “country,” beyond their rural roots, and how this flexibility allowed fans and music to “come to town” to move into and within urban spaces, while retaining a country “character.” 

H is for Harry

Susan Sink ’86 has published her third book of poetry, H is for Harry (North Star Press, 2016), a tightly woven collection of poems on a variety of subjects, including divorce and remarriage, the role of language and literature in life, and the ways in which language contributes to identity. 
 

Heartland Shakedown

Kat Jarvis ’09, Erik Jarvis ’12, Katie In ’13, Caleb Neubauer ’13, Justin Carter, and Phill Smith make up The Plain Mosaic, a band/music collective, which is releasing an album, Heartland Shakedown, this summer. They recorded most of the album over two weekends in an Omaha, Neb., basement studio.