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Faculty
The Ashland MFA is especially characterized by its commitment to its students. We hire as faculty only practicing, published writers who have proven records as exceptional teachers.
All faculty, students and staff participate during summer residencies and during non-residential semesters as equal members in a community of writers that celebrates the pursuit of art in language and the integrity of all human beings.
We value deeply the craft of good teaching - of passing the literary mantle on to other generations of writers.
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Campion, Peter Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty pcampion [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Peter Campion, poetry, is the author of El Dorado (University of Chicago Press, 2013), The Lions: Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Larry Levis Reading... |
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Christman, Jill Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty jchristm [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the... |
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Cowser, Jr., Bob Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty rcowser [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Bob Cowser, Jr.'s most recent book Green Fields: Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between won "Best Memoir 2010" from the Adirondack Center for Writers. His first book, ... |
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Estes, Angie Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty aestes [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Angie Estes, poetry, is the author of four books, most recently Tryst... |
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Fleming, Deborah Chair, Professor English Department; Editor of the Ashland Poetry Press dfleming [at] ashland [dot] edu (419) 289-5789 |
Dr. Deborah Fleming, Professor of English, received her Ph.D. in 1985 from Ohio State University and is Chair of the Department and Editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. Her research interests include W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, Anglo-... |
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Harvey, Steven Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty sharvey1 [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Steven Harvey, creative nonfiction, is the author of Bound for Shady Grove (University of Georgia Press, 2000), a collection of personal essays about his experiences learning to sing and play the traditional... |
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Haven, Stephen Professor of English shaven [at] ashland [dot] edu (419) 289-5979 |
Stephen Haven's book of poems Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) was selected by the Ohio Poetry Association as co-winner in a competition to recognize the best book of poems published by an Ohio poet in 2008. He was... |
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Huber, Sonya Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty shuber [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction, and... |
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Irwin, Mark Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty mirwin3 [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Mark Irwin, poetry, was born in Faribault, Minnesota, and has lived throughout the United States and abroad in France and Italy. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in many literary magazines including The... |
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Larson, Thomas Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty tlarson3 [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Thomas Larson is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, Ohio... |
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Mackall, Joseph Professor of English jmackall [at] ashland [dot] edu (419) 289-5142 |
Joe Mackall, creative nonfiction, is the author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish (Beacon Press, 2007) and The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). He... |
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Philip, Leila Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty lphilip [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Leila Philip, creative nonfiction, joined the MFA faculty in January 2011. She is the author of A Family Place (SUNY, 2009) and The Road Through Miyama (Random House, 1989), which won the PEN 1990... |
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Root, Robert Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty rroot [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Robert Root, creative nonfiction, is the author of Happenstance (University of Iowa Press, 2013), Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place (University of Nebraska Press, 2012... |
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Rough, Bonnie Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty bonnie [at] bonniejrough [dot] com |
Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA, which won a 2011 Minnesota Book Award. Her writing has appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Science and... |
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Schwartz, Ruth L. Poetry Faculty rschwar1 [at] ashland [dot] edu |
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Smith, Carmen Poetry Faculty csmith55 [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona, 2010), three poetry collections—Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts, 2012), The City She... |
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Wells, Sarah Administrative Director swells [at] ashland [dot] edu (419) 289-5957 |
Sarah M. Wells is the author of Pruning Burning Bushes from Wipf and Stock Publishers (2012), and a chapbook of poems, Acquiesce, winner of the 2008 Starting Gate Award through Finishing Line Press (2009). Poems by... |
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Winograd, Kathryn Poetry Faculty kwinogra [at] ashland [dot] edu |
Kathryn Winograd, poetry, is the author of Air into Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002), a 2003 Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry. Winograd has been the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a... |
Contact the MFA Program
For additional information, complete the online form below OR write/call:
Sarah Wells, Administrative Director
MFA in Creative Writing
Bixler Center for the Humanities
Ashland University
Ashland, Ohio 44805
(419) 289-5957
e-mail: swells@ashland.edu