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 Michelle Ann Abate, associate professor of English, and co-editor of the journal Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press); B.A., Canisius College; M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York. Michelle is the author of Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (Temple University Press, 2008)
and Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). In addition, she has published critical essays on a wide range of topics, including "The Muppet Show," William Faulkner, Louisa May Alcott, Caddie Woodlawn, Mark Twain, the Left Behind novels for kids, and the genres of lesbian pulp fiction and young adult novels. In the photo (left), Abate is at Ollantaytambo in Peru, where she took a group of students in January 2007 in connection to her Short Term course on travel writing. |
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 T. J. Anderson III, associate professor of English; B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.F.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. He is the author of River To Cross, At Last Round Up, and Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry, and has published both poetry and poem translations. His research interests include jazz poetry, African American literature, and the work of Aimé Césaire. |
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 R. H. W. Dillard, professor of English; B.A., Roanoke College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia; editor of The Hollins Critic and author of The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems; News of the Nile; After Borges; The Greeting: New & Selected Poems; The Book of Changes; Horror Films; The First Man on the Sun; Understanding George Garrett; Just Here, Just Now; Omniphobia; Sallies; What Is Owed the Dead; and many stories, poems, essays, and literary translations. Professor Dillard has been named the 2007 winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)/George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. The award is given annually to a living individual who has demonstrated exceptional generosity to writers. |
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 Cathryn Hankla (Homepage), director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing and professor of English; B.A., M.A., Hollins College. She is the poetry editor of The Hollins Critic and author of Phenomena, Learning the Mother Tongue, A Blue Moon in Poorwater, Afterimages, Negative History, Texas School Book Depository, Emerald City Blues, Poems for the Pardoned, The Land Between, Last Exposures and Fortune Teller Miracle Fish (stories). Her essays, poems and stories have appeared in literary journals nationwide.
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 David Huddle, distinguished visiting professor of creative writing; B.A. University of Virginia; M.A. Hollins College; M.F.A., Columbia University. He is the author of two novels The Story of a Million Years and La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl; six poetry collections, including Glory River, Grayscale, and Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems; five volumes of short fiction including Only the Little Bone and Tenorman; and a collection of essays, The Writing Habit. His newest book, Nothing Can Make Me Do This, a novel, was released in October 2011. A native of Ivanhoe, Virginia, he is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bread Loaf School of English and the Rainier Writing Workshop.
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 Pauline Kaldas (Homepage), associate professor of English; B.A., Clark University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton. Her works include The Time between Places: Stories That Weave In and Out of Egypt and America (University of Arkansas Press, 2010), Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (co-editor, University of Arkansas Press, 2009), Letters from Cairo, a travel memoir (Syracuse University Press, 2006), and Egyptian Compass, a collection of poetry (Custom Words, 2006). Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in various journals and anthologies, including Post-Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing, The Poetry of Arab Women, Inclined to Speak, Callaloo, and MELUS. Her interests include creative writing, multicultural literature, immigrant literature, and Arab women writers.
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 Jeanne Larsen (Homepage), Susan Gager Jackson Professor of Creative Writing; professor of English; B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. Hollins College; Ph.D., University of Iowa; author of James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita: A Book of Poems, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao, three novels, Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, and Manchu Palaces, and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China and most recently, Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems). A new novel, Sally Paradiso, can be downloaded in e-book format from Brown Fedora Books. She coedited Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Poetics, and is the winner of many grants and awards. Her creative nonfiction, essays, poems, poem translations, and short fiction appear regularly in various magazines nationwide. |
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 Lawrence Wayne Markert, professor of English; B.A., University of Baltimore; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; B.Phil. and D. Phil., University of Oxford. He has published several chapbooks of poetry, including Riddle and Incest and The Widow Poems, along with articles and books dealing with the literature and culture of Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Arthur Symons: Critic of the Seven Arts, and The Bloomsbury Group: A Resource Guide. He is currently working on a study of the poetry of W. H. Auden and the literature of the 1930s in Britain. |
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 Thorpe Moeckel, associate professor of English; B.A., Bowdoin College; M.F.A., University of Virginia. His most recent book is Venison: a poem. His poetry collections include Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002), winner of the 2000 Gerald Cable Award, and Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008). Chapbooks include Meltlines and The Guessing Land. He has been a Jacob K. Javits and Henry Hoyns Fellow, and was awarded the New Writing Award from The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His writings appear regularly in journals, and selections are featured in several anthologies. He has recently completed a linked essay collection, a novel for kids, and a new collection of poems.
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 Marilyn Moriarty, professor of English; B.A., M.A., University of Florida - Gainesville; Ph.D., University of California - Irvine. She has co-edited a collection of essays on architecture and literary theory, Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture, annotated two Shakespeare plays for anthologies, and written a textbook, Writing Science through Critical Thinking. She also publishes poetry and short fiction; her book Moses Unchained won the A.W.P. creative nonfiction award. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Faultline, Mondo Greco, Nimrod, Peregrine, Phoebe, Quarterly West, Thema and The Kenyon Review. |
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 Julie Pfeiffer, associate professor of English; B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut; editor of the annual of the Children's Literature Association, Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press). She has published on Charlotte Bronte, gender and children's literature, and on nineteenth-century revisions of Paradise Lost for children. |
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 Elizabeth Poliner, assistant professor of English; B.A. Bowdoin College; J.D. University of Virginia; M.F.A. American University. She is the author of Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel in stories, and Sudden Fog, a chapbook of poems. Her stories and poems have been published in literary journals nationwide, and her awards include numerous individual artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. |
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 Eric Trethewey, professor of English; B.A., Kentucky State University; M.A. University of New Orleans; Ph.D., Tulane University. He is the author of five collections of poems, Dreaming of Rivers, Evening Knowledge, The Long Road Home, Songs and Lamentations and Heart's Hornbook. Evening Knowledge was a winner in the 1990 Virginia Prize for Poetry. His literary scholarship includes articles on various writers, including Matthew Arnold and Joseph Conrad. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review and Canadian Literature. The Home Waltz, a screenplay, won the Virginia Governor's Screenplay Competition. |
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 Natasha Trethewey is the Louis D. Rubin Writer-in-Residence for 2012. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for her collection Native Guard, Trethewey is the author of two previous poetry collections, Bellocq's Ophelia, and Domestic Work. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was published in fall 2010. Her numerous grants and awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Bellagio, The Rockefeller Foundation. In January 2012, she was named poet laureate of Mississippi. She holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. She received her B.A., University of Georgia, M.A., Hollins College, M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
