{"id":18577,"date":"2020-06-22T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=18577"},"modified":"2025-07-15T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:16:19","slug":"happy-like-this-ashley-wurzbacher","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/happy-like-this-ashley-wurzbacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Like This: Ashley Wurzbacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18639 img-fluid alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-254x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wurzbacher\" width=\"195\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-254x300.jpeg 254w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-866x1024.jpeg 866w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-768x908.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-1299x1536.jpeg 1299w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/06\/Wurzbacher-1732x2048.jpeg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>2010 MFA graduate in fiction, Ashley Wurzbacher&#8217;s debut short story collection <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleywurzbacher.com\/happy-like-this\"><em>Happy Like This<\/em><\/a>, won the John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction award and was published by the University of Iowa Press in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collection features some stories from her thesis from her time at Eastern&#8217;s MFA program!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 MFA graduate in fiction, Ashley Wurzbacher&#8217;s debut short story collection Happy Like This, won the John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction award and was published by the University of Iowa Press in October 2019. The collection features some stories from her thesis from her time at Eastern&#8217;s MFA program! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18640,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18577","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-english-philosophy","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-accomplishment","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-publication"],"acf":{"subheading":"MFA Alumni Publication","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":true,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"display_featured_image":true,"page_override_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18577\/revisions\/87696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}