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Cathryn Hankla, (homepage) director of the M.F.A. Program in 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, and Last Exposures. Her
essays, poems and stories have appeared in literary
journals nationwide.
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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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Kelly Cherry is the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence for 2009. She is the author of seven books of fiction (most recently We Can Still Be Friends), as well as seven books of poems (including Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems) and three of literary nonfiction. Another book of essays, Girl in a Library, and a new collection of poems, The Retreats of Thought, are due out soon. The recipient of many grants and awards for both her poetry and her prose, she has held named chairs and distinguished visiting writer positions at a number of universities.
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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.
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Jeanne
Larsen, (homepage) professor of English; B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. Hollins College; Ph.D., University of Iowa; authorof 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.
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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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Elizabeth Poliner, visiting 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 (Permanent Press, 2005) and has published poems and stories in numerous literary journals including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. A winner of many grants, she has also received residencies at Yaddo and fiction scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee conferences.
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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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