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Welcome to George Mason University
Courtney Bkric & Sally Keith!
The Candid Yak grunts a hearty welcome!
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Courtney Bkric Courtney Angela Brkic has
worked for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
and for Physicians for Human Rights. She is a graduate of the
M.F.A. program at New York University and divides her time between
Arlington, Virginia, and New York City. She has published a collection
of stories, Stillness and Other Stories, the primary context of
which is the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; and a book
of essays, The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living, in which
she recounts working with a forensic team in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina
excavating bodies of people killed in the massacre at Srebrenica
in 1995. This semester, she will hold the Richard L. Thomas Chair
in Creative Writing at Kenyon College, where she had been a visiting
assistant professor since fall 2003. She begins teaching at George
Mason University in the fall.
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Sally Keith
Sally Keith (M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2000) is the author of two books of poetry, Design (University Press of Colorado, 2001), which won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman, and Dwelling Song, which was chosen by Bin Ramke and Fanny Howe for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series. She has published poems in several journals, including: American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, and Volt. She begins teaching at George Mason University in the fall.
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