The RC has hired RC Creative Writing alumna Elizabeth Schmuhl (’06) to teach a First Year Seminar. Elizabeth has roots in metro Detroit as well as southwestern Michigan, where her family owns the 100+ year-old Paw Paw River Farm. She intended to go to college out of state, but changed her mind when she visited an older friend – Melissa Solarz, also an alumna – at the RC. She has always been interested in writing, visual arts, and dance, and continues those interests today: a Hopwood winner, she’s a regular blogger for Michigan Quarterly Review, and Zoo Cake Press will publish her Presto Agitato: A Dictionary of Modern Movement this fall with an additional small run chapbook from Dancing Girl Press; she illustrates essays for The Rumpus; co-edits the twice-weekly micro-fiction web publication CheapPOP; and makes collaborative-movement/video-poems with Mary-Kim Arnold, two of which will be published this fall in Glass Press of the Future.
