A Look Back: Going to College with Sufjan Stevens

Not only did I graduate the same year from the same college as singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens (pictured above, with book in hand) -- we shared an advanced poetry class our last semester.  He was a prolific writer even then and -- among his many collegiate projects -- wrote, illustrated, designed, and published a literary magazine, Moxie, as a part of his senior independent study.

I was absolutely thrilled when he hand selected and approached me about publishing one of my poems in his zine.  I have posted photographic evidence below for posterity (see my piece in the bottom, left-hand corner).