Wondering what’s next for our 2021 BA/MA program graduates? Here’s what a few of them are up to. (And if you’re a recent graduate with news to share, please send it along to Alison Jaenicke, acj137@psu.edu.)

Trae Hawkins is among a small group of writers selected for a new Black Creatives Fund initiative designed to support unpublished Black writers with completed manuscripts. The program features esteemed faculty including Penguin Random House (PRH) authors Nic Stone and Jewell Parker Rhodes. The Revisions Workshop, which comes with a stipend, gives young Black writers the opportunity to receive guidance throughout a manuscript revision process and submit their manuscript to editors at PRH for possible publication. Trae has also been accepted to the MFA program at University of Nevada at Reno.

Susan Muth will be starting an MFA program in poetry at George Mason University in the fall.

Katelyn Robbins will be starting seminary studies at Boston University in the fall.