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Hollins University
Graduate Center
P.O. Box 9603
Roanoke, VA 24020-1603
(540) 362-6575
Fax (540) 362-6288
hugrad@hollins.edu

Program Director
Jeanne Larsen

"Sometimes one begins to think that the faculty and graduates of Hollins supply half the world's books. Certainly they supply many of the best ones."
Poet Fred Chappell

"Hollins University, this place for writers, seems to have harbored people and imaginations for a long time. Named the state's first Literary Landmark, Hollins' Wyndham Robertson Library brims over with the writings of the school's own graduates. More than 1,500 titles have been penned by Hollins graduates."
Richmond Times Dispatch

"Upon arriving at Hollins University, I knew the school largely through its outstanding national reputation as a place that produces writers and thinkers of uncommon grace, independence, and high accomplishment. But after having the opportunity to teach there and become part of the rich community life for a time, I left convinced that cozy little Hollins -- which sits in its own timeless vale of the Blue Ridge -- actually resides on the cutting edge of modern liberal arts education."
2006 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence James Dodson

M.F. A. in Creative Writing

Writers-in-Residence

	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 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 a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Short Story Prize.

	Elizabeth Seydel Morgan ‘60 was the 2007 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. She is the author of four books of poetry, including On Long Mountain, a finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize in 1998. Her next book of poems, Without a Philosophy, will be published by LSU Press in 2007. Recently awarded the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, Morgan also won the Emily Clark Balch Award from The Virginia Quarterly Review for her fiction, and the Governor’s Award for Screenwriting at the Virginia Film Festival.

	James Dodson was the 2006 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence. A writer of memoir, biography, and literary journalism, he is a regular columnist for Golf Magazine and was an editor for Departures Magazine. A former senior writer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Sunday Magazine and Yankee Magazine, his public affairs and political writing has won numerous national awards. He is the author of Final Rounds, Faithful Travelers, A Golfer's Life, The Dewsweepers, The Road to Somewhere, and Ben Hogan: An American Life.

	Poet Dara Wier was the 2005 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins. She directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts. Her work has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been included in recent volumes of Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. The American Poetry Review awarded her the Jerome Shestack Prize in 2001.

	Denise Giardina was the 2004 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins. She has published five novels and is a recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second novel, Storming Heaven, was a Discovery Selection of the Book of the Month Club. Her fifth, Fallam's Secret, has just been released.

	LeAnne Howe was the 2003 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins. Her first novel, Shell Shaker, was the winner of an American Book Award, and a collection of her new stories, Howe, Like the Indian, will be published in 2003. A member of the Chocktaw Nation of Oklahoma, she is also a poet and playwright, as well as an American Indian literature scholar.

	Novelist Wayne Johnston was the 2002 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins. He is the author of five novels, including The Divine Ryans, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor's Award in Canada.

	Poet Paul Zimmer was the 2001 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins. He is the author of many volumes of poetry, including Big Blue Train, The Great Bird of Love, and Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems.

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11/14/07