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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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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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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; 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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David Huddle, distinguished 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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Jeanne
Larsen, (homepage) Susan Gager Jackson Professor of 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;
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
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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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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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, published in 2005 by The Permanent Press, 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,
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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. |
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