Katie Sticca

Jan 23, 2025 | suffolk.edu | Katie Sticca |Michael Clarke

Graduating seniors gather to present theses and projects On a foggy day in Boston, spirits were bright in Sargent Hall as students, faculty, and staff bundled into Smith Commons to view senior theses and projects at the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Fall 2024 Honors Symposium.

Jan 13, 2025 | suffolk.edu | Katie Sticca |Michael Clarke

Event honors 2024 research, scholarship, and creative endeavors Academic scholarship can often feel like a solitary pursuit, but at Suffolk’s second annual Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Celebration this winter, College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) faculty came together in the spirit of community to share and discuss their work.

Oct 30, 2024 | salamandermag.org | Katie Sticca

Salamander presents Disambiguation,a chapbook by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn. Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is the 2024 Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award winner. Generously funded by Suffolk University’s Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Fund, this award is given retroactively to a poet who has not published more than one full-length poetry collection at the time of their publication in Salamander.

Aug 28, 2024 | salamandermag.org | Katie Sticca

Cody StetzelEncased in Mythos:Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q. Stark (BOA Editions, 2023)Jessica Q. Stark’s Buffalo Girl is a stunning follow-up to her 2020 debut Savage Pageant. Markedly more personal, Buffalo Girl shares poems generated from matrilineal grief that contend with the speaker’s roles as daughter, granddaughter, and witness. Stark examines these relationships and brings voice to a problematizing ferocity that keeps the strong women of a family both protectively tense and justified.

Aug 6, 2024 | salamandermag.org | Katie Sticca

Winner"Exit Strategies of a Great Squirrel Army" by Michael WelchFrom judge Kevin Wilson:What begins as a wonderful examination of the dynamics of work, the main character Andre avoiding college by working at a garden center, turns into something rich and emotionally resonant, as Andre navigates the complexities of familial responsibility. It's honest and unflinching, with bursts of humor that always land.