Recent Hires & Appointments
in English & Creative Writing

Listings from January 2009 through December 2009:

Sarah Gridley, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (poetry); Case Western Reserve University.

Dean Bakopoulos, Assistant Professor of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment; Iowa State University.

Don Lee, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Temple University.

Robert Ficociello, Assistant Professor, American Literature and Creative Writing, University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Michelle Beissel-Heath, Assistant Professor of Children's Literature, University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Listings from January 2008 through December 2008:

Jillian Weise, Assistant Professor; English and Creative Writing, Clemson University.

Katie Manning, Visiting Professor of Writing and Literature; Point Loma Nazarene University.

Sands Hall, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing; Franklin & Marshall College.

Don Lee, Associate Professor, MFA/PhD Program in Creative Writing; Western Michigan University.

Janice Knight, Chair, The Committee on Creative Writing; University of Chicago.

Kate Soto, Coordinator, The Committee on Creative Writing and The Program in Poetry and Poetics; University of Chicago.

Walter Kirn, Vare Writer-in-Residence, Fall 2008; University of Chicago.

Kevin Stewart, Visiting Writer, The Program in Creative & Professional Writing; University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Debra Allbery, Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing; Warren Wilson College.

Harrison Solow, Director; The Saint David's Institute for Wales in the World.

Harrison Solow, Writer in Residence; University of Wales.

Rishma Dunlop, Professor of English, Coordinator of The Creative Writing Program; York University.

Claude Clayton Smith, Claridge Writer in Residence; Illinois College.

A. Van Jordan, Professor, MFA Program in Poetry; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

David-Matthew Barnes, 2008 Emerging Writer in Residence; Penn State Altoona.

Cara Diaconoff, Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing); Whitman College.

Margaret Rabb, MFA Director; Wichita State University.

Roger Sedarat, Assistant Professor, MFA Program; Queens College/City University of New York.

Don Belton, Fiction and Nonfiction, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing Program; Indiana University-Bloomington.

Carol V. Davis, 2008 Sandburg-Auden-Stein Poet in Residence; Olivet College.

Nicholas Karavatos, Assistant Professor, Department of English; American University of Sharjah- United Arab Emirates.

Brighde Mullins, Director of the Masters of Professional Writing Program; University of Southern California.

Carolyne Wright, 2008 Distinguished Northwest Poet; Seattle University.

Thomas Maltman, Visiting Writer; Normandale Community College.

Austin Bunn, Assistant Professor, Writing Department; Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids.

Caitlin Horrocks, Assistant Professor, Writing Department; Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids.

Stephanie Brown, Adjunct Professor in Creative Writing, Poetry; University of Redlands.

Listings from January 2007 through December 2007:

Ross Gay, Poet, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing Program; Indiana University-Bloomington.

Don Lee, Associate Professor, English Department; Macalester College.

Fred Arroyo, Assistant Professor of English, Fiction Writing; Drake University.

Kathleen Tarr, Program Coordinator of the low-residency MFA program in poetry, literary nonfiction, and fiction; University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Carolyne Wright, 2008 Thornton Writer in Residence; Lynchburg College.

Liza Wieland, Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing; East Carolina University.

Rebecca Skloot, Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction; University of Memphis.

Adrian Matejka, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, Poetry; Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville.

Michael Downs, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, Fiction and Creative Non-fiction; Towson University.

HG Carrillo, tenure-track, creative writing; The George Washington University.

Robin Romm, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature; College of Santa Fe.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, Associate Professor of English in Poetry and Writing; University of Nebraska, Kearney.

John Struloeff, Director of Creative Writing; Pepperdine University.

Brenda Cardenas, Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program in Creative Writing; University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

Rebecca Dunham, Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program in Creative Writing; University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English, PhD in Creative Writing, Nonfiction; Ohio University.

Lisa Norris, tenure track Assistant Professor, Fiction Writing; Central Washington University.

Christie Hodgen, Assistant Professor of English, Fiction Writing & Literature; University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Hadara Bar-Nadav, Assistant Professor of English, Poetry Wrtiing & Literature; University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Janet Kaplan, Poet in Residence, Dept. of English; Fordham University.

Sybil Baker, Asstistant Professor of Creative Writing; University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

Henri Cole, Poet, Professor of English, MFA Program; The Ohio State University.

David Anthony Durham, Associate Professor of English, Fiction Writing; California State University, Fresno.

Alex Espinoza, Assistant Professor of English, Fiction Writing; California State University, Fresno.

Brandon R. Schrand, Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing; University of Idaho.

Prageeta Sharma, Director of the Creative Writing Program, Dept. of English; University of Montana, Missoula.

Matthew R. Bondurant, tenure track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Fiction; SUNY Plattsburgh.

Kelly Daniels, Assistant Professor of English, Fiction Writing; Augustana College.

David Keplinger, Associate Professor, Dept. of Literature; American University.

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