Join us in celebrating the work of our graduating second-year MFA students!
Isabel Boutiette is a poet interested in glitches, cyber ecologies, anthropogenic horror, Jewish mysticism, and mediumship. She has lived in San Francisco, Madrid, and Seattle, where for a few years she worked at Wave Books. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, we are in the shop zine, Spirit Duplicator, Tagvverk, Tiding House, and her chapbook, Paradise HD, is out with Spiral Editions. She currently hosts a monthly creative writing club for incarcerated students at Westville Correctional Facility.
Makella Brems is a prose writer and a PhD Candidate in Political Science here at Notre Dame. In her creative writing and her academic research, Brems seeks to understand, document, and shape the fast-changing relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Brems's work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Review of Politics, and elsewhere. Brems was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
Samuel Ekanem was the winner of Nigeria’s NYSC’s Presidential Honors Award for outstanding services toward national development. His works have appeared in The Fictional Café, Down in the Dirt, Literary Yard, and elsewhere. In 2025, he received the Frazier Thompson Graduate Student Research Award and a grant from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA). He has served as both a regional and national juror for the Scholastic Writing Awards.
Emiliano Gomez is from Marysville, a gold rush place. His poetry collection Townies was a finalist for the 2023 DIAGRAM / New Michigan Press chapbook contest. He has received grants from the California Arts Council and contributes to the Cleveland Review of Books. His recent work can be found at Action, Spectacle, Alchemy, Broadkill, Interpret Magazine, mercury firs, Yalobusha Review, and others.
Ivy Braxton Harrington is a second year MFA student in Notre Dame’s Creative Writing program. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University with a double major in Linguistics and Literature. Her Master’s thesis consists of a collection of devotional poems that give thanks and appreciation to Christ's creation, the gift of faith, and Christ’s Saints. She has discovered a passion for teaching during the 2024-2025 academic year while teaching introductory poetry writing to undergraduates at the University and is continuing her position of 2024-2025 Social Media Fellow with Notre Dame Press. She has recently been married to Notre Dame Master’s graduate and enFocus Fellow, Nicholas Dybas, and spends her free time singing with Campus Ministry's liturgical choir, Magnificat
Camille Lendor is a poet from Toronto. She holds a BA in English from the University of Toronto and is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame, where she is an Action Books Editorial Fellow and reads poetry for Notre Dame Review. Her work has appeared in Canadian Literature, PRISM international, The League of Canadian Poets, The Malahat Review, and Stellium Literary Magazine, among other publications. She is a 2022 Hatty Fitts Walker Scholarship recipient (Fine Arts Work Center) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. In her spare time, Camille likes to cook and bake, practice Judo, and watch way too many movies.
Noah Loveless is an MFA candidate in poetry from Maine. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maine in 2020 with degrees in English and Philosophy. His work benefits from the merging of these fields, using poetry as a unique means of understanding and asking questions about topics like experience, self, and memory. During his undergraduate career he won UMaine's Grenfell Prize for a portfolio of poems and he received a McGillicuddy Humanities Fellowship which he used to research the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. He is further interested in the wide field of language and the depth and dynamism of words. He lives in South Bend with his partner and two cats and likes to bake.
Oli Peters' writing is forthcoming in Annulet, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, and Mercury Firs. Her past work appears in Pleiades, New World Writing, Rain Taxi, Heavy Feather Review, and abo zine. Her dance-performance piece "Body Glyph State" will be performed at the 2025 Iowa Choreography Festival. She received her BA from the University of Iowa. She is based in the Midwest.
Ryan Phung is a seriously unserious writer from Los Angeles.
Kyla D. Walker is a Turkish American writer from Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in the LA Times, Electric Literature, and the Threepenny Review. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has also been selected as a Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, a PERIPLUS Collective Fellow, and a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow-in-Residence. She writes to make sense of this world and to build more love into it. More of her work can be found at kd-walker.com.
Sachie Weber is a fiction writer born and raised in San Francisco. As a mixed race woman, Sachie writes about isolation, belonging, and communication by miscommunication. She has a Creative Writing minor from Stanford but majored in chemistry and worked as a software engineer for five years. These experiences both inform the themes of her writing and validate her certainty that writing is her life’s passion. She loves science fiction, magical realism, and believes in ghosts when in the right company. She expresses love through food.