MFA Faculty Members Sonya Huber and Kathryn Winograd Reading

The MFA program at Ashland University presents the summer residency's summer reading series.  This two-week long program begins with two of the program's faculty members, Kathryn Winograd and Sonya Huber on Sunday, July 25 at 7 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall, Schar College of Education. This event is free and open to the public.

Sonya Huber

Sonya Huber, creative nonfiction, is Assistant Professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University. Her first book of creative nonfiction, Opa Nobody, was published in 2008 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her second book, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, was published in 2010 from the Class in America Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Her writing textbook, The "Backwards" Research Guide: Using Your Life for Connection, Reflection, and Inspiration, is forthcoming from Equinox Publishing in fall 2010. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University.

Kathryn Winograd

Kathryn Winograd, poetry, is the author of Air into Breath, a 2002 Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002). Winograd is the co-author of two books on online learning and teaching, You Can Learn Online and You Can Teach Online (McGraw Hill) and author of Stepping Sideways Into Poetry (Scholastic, Inc), a classroom resource book for K12 teachers. She has been the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship, and a co-winner of a Colorado Endowment for The Humanities Grant. She is a poetry faculty member for the University of Northern Colorado’s Middle Ground Project, a collaboration with the Navajo Nation funded by a Presidential Academy in American History and Civics Education grant. Recent and forthcoming publications include Calyx, Cricket Magazine, Cutthroat, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Literary Mama, and River Teeth.

For more information about the MFA program and the summer residency reading series, visit http://www.ashland.edu/graduate/mfa