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Peter Campion
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Jill Christman
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Bob Cowser, Jr.
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Angie Estes
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Steven Harvey
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Stephen Haven, Director
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Sonya Huber
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Mark Irwin
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Daniel W. Lehman
"Tsotsi Transformed: Retooling Athol Fugard for the Thabo Mbeki Era" in the Spring 2011 issue of Research in African Literatures. "Born from Restlessness: A Conversation with Rayda Jacobs" in the Nov.-Dec. issue of World Literature Today. "The Naive Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid" in Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature, forthcoming in Fall, 2011. Dan also was named the Ashland University Outstanding Faculty Member (male) at the 2010-2011 Ashland University Leadership and Service Awards on April 10. |
Robert Root
Bob Root interviews poet and essayist Lia Purpura, author of Increase and On Looking, in the Fall 2011 (13:2) issue of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. The interview can be accessed online through Project Muse. In addition to a workshop on writing nonfiction, Bob will read from his forthcoming essay collection, Postscripts, and speak on a panel titled “What Do Editors Want?” at the 2011 Sanibel Island Writers Conference November 3-6. |
Ruth L. Schwartz
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Peter Trachtenberg
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Kathryn Winograd
Kathryn Winograd's online curriculum, "Teaching the Poetry of Rivers," funded by a Colorado Humanities Grant as K-12 resources for teachers wanting their students to enter the state and national River of Words poetry contest (started by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass) is being made into a booklet which will be distributed to all Denver Public School 6th-grade science teachers by Denver Water's Education Department. Page updated 10/17/2011. |
Peter Campion was awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. 
Joan Hanna's summer interview with Jill about writing “Nineteen Weeks and One Day” (reprinted in the Summer 2011 issue) went live today: 
Bob is on the faculty of the Memphis Creative Nonfiction Conference to be held in that city on September 25th. Peter Campion and Bob are reading together as part of the DATUM EARTH reading series in Keene, NH on October 13th. Bob is also teaching his “Life/Sentences” course at the Upstate Maximum Security Correctional Facility in Malone, NY and is serving as Senior Faculty Associate of the Community-Based Learning Center at St. Lawrence. And coaching Jackson's 5th &6th Grade football team.
Angie Estes is now also Professor of English in the Oklahoma State University MFA and PhD Creative Writing program. During September, she will be giving readings and workshops at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado, and in Salida, Colorado.
Carmen Gimenez Smith
Steve has an essay entitled “Ya Mismo,” about visiting his daughter in the Peace Corps, coming out in River Teeth this fall and an excerpt from his memoir, The Book of Knowledge and Wonder, in spring. His essay, “Blood Mountain,” was recognized as one of the “notable essays” of 2010 in Best American Essays, and a remembrance that he wrote in honor of the mountain fiddler J. P. Fraley is in the current edition of Sing Out.
Stephen Haven’s poems "Self Portraits with African Cichlids," "Room in a Room," and "Watch" will appear in the next issue of Poetry New Zealand.
Sonya’s essay "Breastfeeding Dick Cheney" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Creative Nonfiction. Opa Nobody will appear in paperback in 2012.
Mark Irwin's new and selected poems, American Urn, will be published by the Ashland Poetry Press in 2013.
Dan Lehman, resident faculty mentor in nonfiction, has had three essays about South African literature and film published recently or forthcoming in journals specializing in African or world literature:
Ruth L. Schwartz is very happy to announce that Bone River, her fifth book of poems, will be published by Autumn House Press in 2012.
Peter is now an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Kathryn Winograd’s essay, "Bathing," published in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, has been named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011.
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