Interests Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, playwriting) Biography Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s northshore, Amy Quan Barry is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where, in addition to receiving the Vilas, Romnes, Kellett, and WARF research awards, she has also directed both the MFA Program in Creative Writing and …
Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications and Awards Ron Kuka has published short stories in the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Toyon, and Pavement. His teaching has been recognized with the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching. Recent Books
Biography Research Interests Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Hip-Hop, Poetry & Performance, Writing & Social Justice, Community-Based Creative Practice, Chicago Literature Degrees and Institutions MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Michigan BA, English (Creative Writing) and African American Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Recent Publications Finna, One World/Random House (2020) Wild Hundreds, University of …
Biography Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics …
Biography Born and raised in Jacksonville FL, Dantiel W. Moniz is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree, a 2024 USA Fellow, the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and Fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, among others. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat was a …
Biography Research Interests Creative writing, creative nonfiction, fiction Degrees and Institutions MFA, University of Michigan Recent Publications Nonfiction books: OWNER OF A LONELY HEART (Scribner) and STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER (Viking) Fiction books: SHORT GIRLS (Viking) and PIONEER GIRL (Viking) Essays in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Best American Essays, and more. Courses Taught Graduate …
Biography Alison C. Rollins, Assistant Professor, (MFA: Brown University) is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021, …
Biography Porter Shreve is the author of the novels The Obituary Writer, Drives Like a Dream, When the White House Was Ours, and The End of the Book, which have been on best of the year lists in many newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. …
Biography Research History of prosody in English, mapping vexed interiority, Asian American poetry and poetics since 1890, the American novel since 1945, queer and nonbinary literature and literary forms, comparative race and ethnic studies, the pursuit of happiness, migration, mothers and mothering, beauty and monstrosity, Asian American bitches since 1565, the love poem, forms of …