Monica Rentfrow

Graduate Profile: Monica Rentfrow

Are you in the mood for a snack? Or is it words and poetry you’re craving?

After taking a creative writing class at Alma College, Monica Rentfrow ’08 has an appetite for little else.

Monica Rentfrow

“I knew I had a strong interest for writing poetry when I left Alma,” she says. “I entered graduate school with a hunger for more techniques, experience and writing time.”

Rentfrow was at least partially able to satiate her hunger at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she earned her Master in Creative Writing in 2010.

“As a professor’s assistant, I learned how to draft conference proposals and edit a whole fiction manuscript,” she says. “I also was excited to assist a professor with her prison poetry exchange.”

Rentfrow’s thesis, “Rethinking Repair,” is a collection of writings speaking to her experience with dwarfism. Now, she is ready to begin her studies in creative non-fiction as a doctoral student this fall.

“A scholarship donor at Alma once advised me: ‘Make sure you enjoy what you are doing, and you will never really have to work,’” says Rentfrow. “Though there have been troublesome days, I can tell you how possible it is to be proud of where you come from, enjoy where you are and have excitement for where you are going.”

 

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team has won 11 consecutive regional championships. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principles of market economics through outreach projects in their communities. Last year’s team presented 12 projects, including teaching ethics and entrepreneurship skills to students at a juvenile detention center and launching an entrepreneurship competition for students with business ideas.

 

Graduate Profile

Monica Rentfrow

Monica Rentfrow
Graduation: 2008
Major: English

Are you in the mood for a snack? Or is it words and poetry you’re craving?

After taking a creative writing class at Alma College, Monica Rentfrow ’08 has an appetite for little else.

“I knew I had a strong interest for writing poetry when I left Alma,” she says. “I entered graduate school with a hunger for more techniques, experience and writing time.”