A Midwestern Review, Spring 2018
Literary journals are a place for fresh voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual arts. A Midwestern Review is published by undergraduates at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and the quality of its content shines bright on this episode of Reader’s Radar. Samuel Autman is Associate Professor of English at DePauw and the outgoing Faculty Adviser for A Midwestern Review. He asserts that the rich psychological reality of “Becoming Caroline” (Spring 2018) “is indicative of what we want our students to be out there doing.”
Samuel Autman
Samuel Autman’s first literary impulse as a child was writing personal essays for church newsletters and school newspapers. Later, as a news reporter for the Tulsa World, The Salt Lake Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The San Diego Union Tribune, he found great joy in crafting narratives and personal columns. His essay “Invisible Nails” won first place in the 2015 Disquiet International Literary Contest in nonfiction and is now available in THE KEPT SECRET: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction published by the Michigan State University Press. His other essays have appeared in THE CHALK CIRCLE: Prizewinning Intercultural Essays, BLACK GAY GENIUS : Answering Joseph Beam’s Call, Ninth Letter, The Common Reader, Under the Gum Tree, The Little Patuxent Review, Bonfires, PANORAMA: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, Memoir Magazine, Brevity and the forthcoming The St. Louis Anthology.
Becoming Caroline
In high school, Carol is the funniest person in the room. In college, she reinvents herself as “Caroline” but glimpses what was purged along with her weight.
Katrina Iorio
Katrina Iorio is a senior at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, majoring in English with a Music minor. She is the Music Director of DePauw’s co-ed a cappella group, and is also an Assistant Producer for DePauw’s television station, D3TV. Iorio will work for Teach for America for after graduation, but she also plans to continue writing both fiction and non-fiction. “Becoming Caroline” is the first piece of hers to be published.
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