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Jeanne
Larsen, (homepage) director
of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and 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
most recently Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s
Poems from Tang China. 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. To read more about Professor Larsen, click here.
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J. Anderson, 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 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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Aaron Baker, visiting assistant professor of English; B.A., M.A., Central Washington University; M.F.A., University of Virginia. He is the author of Mission Work, a book of poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), as well as essays, reviews, and short fiction. His various fellowships and awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
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Thomas Beller, visiting assistant professor of English; B.A., Vassar College; M.F.A., Columbia University. He is the author of a book of essays, How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhead, The Sleep-Over Artist: A Novel, and Seduction Theory: Stories, and editor of With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger, Before and After: Stories From New York, and Personals: Dreams and Nightmares From the Lives of Twenty Young Writers. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. He is the founding editor of Open City Magazine & Books, as well as Mrbellersneighborhood.com.
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H. W. Dillard, professor of English; B.A.,
Roanoke College; M.A. and 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; 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. The AWP will officially
present the award to Dillard at their annual
conference on March 1 in Atlanta.
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Cathryn Hankla, (homepage) 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, and Last Exposures. Her
essays, poems and stories have appeared in literary
journals nationwide.
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Wayne
Johnston, distinguished chair in creative writing; B.A., Memorial University of Newfoundland; M.A., University of New Brunswick; author of seven novels and one work of non-fiction, all of which have garnered critical praise and captured several awards. His latest book, Custodian of Paradise, was published to critical acclaim in Canada in the fall of 2006. It was nominated for a number of prizes and remained on the MacLean's national best seller list for six months after publication. It was released in the United States (published by W.W. Norton) in spring 2007, also to very favorable reviews. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1998, was a shortlist nominee for Britain’s most prestigious literary award for fiction, the Booker Prize. He adapted his third novel, The Divine Ryans, into a 1999 film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite. Subsequently, he won Best Screenplay at the Atlantic Film Festival.
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Thorpe
Moeckel, assistant professor of English;
B.A., Bowdoin College-Brunswick; M.F.A., University
of Virginia. His first full-length collection of
poems, Odd Botany, won the 2000 Gerald
Cable Award and was published in 2002 by Silverfish
Review Press. Chapbooks include Meltlines, The
Guessing Land, and Making a Map of the
River. He earned his M.F.A. in 2002 at the
University of Virginia, where he was a Jacob K.
Javits and Henry Hoyns Fellow.
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Christine Schutt is the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-In-Residence at Hollins for 2008. Her new novel, All Souls, will be published in April 2008. Her first novel, Florida, was selected as a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in Fiction. Nightwork, a short-story collection, was chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement, and a second collection, A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2005 to wide acclaim. Schutt’s other honors include the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Short Story Prize. Her fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Mississippi Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Voice, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, and NOON. She lives and teaches in New York City.
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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. Sawdust
Man, Edith Shay, Strawberry Hill, and Nissa's
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