Faculty & Staff Presentations

Peter Campion, poetry, is the author of The Lions: Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Other People, (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Mitchell Johnson (Terrence Rogers Fine Art, 2004). More about Peter Campion.

• Structure and Arrangement of Collections of Poems and Essays by Peter Campion and Bob Cowser, Jr. (Wednesday, August 8, 2012)
• Reading by Peter Campion (Sunday, August 5, 2012)
• Poetry and Memorability: A Craft Seminar by Peter Campion and Mark Irwin (Thursday, July 28, 2011)
• Reading by Peter Campion (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)
• Reading by Peter Campion (Thursday, August 5, 2010)
• Truth and its Consequences: A Craft Seminar by Jill Christman, Peter Campion, and Sonya Huber (2008)
  

Jill Christman, creative nonfiction, is the author of the memoir Darkroom: A Family Exposure, which won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. More about Jill Christman.

• Reading by Jill Christman (Sunday, August 5, 2012)
• Reading by Jill Christman (Wednesday, July 27, 2011)
• Craft Seminar by Jill Christman and Angie Estes (Monday, July 25, 2011)
• Reading by Jill Christman (Wednesday, July 28, 2010)
• Truth and its Consequences: A Craft Seminar by Jill Christman, Peter Campion, and Sonya Huber (2008)

Bob Cowser, Jr., creative nonfiction, is the author of Dream Season (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004), which was a New York Times Book Review "Editor's Choice" and "Paperback Row" selection and was listed among the Chronicle of Higher Education's best-ever college sports books. He is also the author of Scorekeeping (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) and Green Fields (University of New Orleans Press, 2010), and the editor of Why We're Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate (Colgate University Press, 2010). More about Bob Cowser.

• Structure and Arrangement of Collections of Poems and Essays by Peter Campion and Bob Cowser, Jr. (Wednesday, August 8, 2012)
• Reading by Bob Cowser, Jr. (Sunday, August 5, 2012)
• Reading by Bob Cowser, Jr. (Wednesday, July 27, 2011)
• Reading by Bob Cowser, Jr. (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)
• Immersion Writing: A Craft Seminar by Bob Cowser, Jr., and Ruth L. Schwartz (2008)

Angie Estes, poetry, is the author of four books, most recently Tryst (Oberlin College Press, 2009), which was the runner-up for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her other three books are Chez Nous (Oberlin College Press, 2005), Voice-Over (Oberlin College Press, 2002), which won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and The Uses of Passion (1995), the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. More about Angie Estes.

• Reading by Angie Estes (Tuesday, August 7, 2012)
• Reading by Angie Estes (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)
• Writing about Art/Finding Art Within, or: How Giotto Painted My Poem: A Craft Seminar by Angie Estes, with Jill Christman (Sunday, July 24, 2011)
• Reading by Angie Estes (Tuesday, August 3, 2010)
• The Lyric Mode: A Craft Seminar by Angie Estes, Bob Root, and Kathryn Winograd (2008)

Carmen Giménez Smith is assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University, publisher for Noemi Press and Editor-in-Chief of Puerto del Sol. She is the author of the poetry collections Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona, 2009) and Trees Outside the Academy (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011) and the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona, 2010). More about Carmen Gimenez Smith.

• Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith (Sunday, July 24, 2011)
• A New Lyric: On the 'I' and 'You' of Subjectivity: A Craft Seminar by Carmen Gimenez Smith (Monday, August 1, 2011)

Steven Harvey, creative nonfiction, is the author of Bound for Shady Grove (University of Georgia Press, 2000), A Geometry of Lilies (University of South Carolina Press) and Lost in Translation (University of Georgia Press), and the editor of In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age (University of Georgia Press). More about Steven Harvey.

• Reading by Steven Harvey (Monday, July 30, 2012)
• Enriching the Text: A Craft Seminar by Steven Harvey and Kathryn Winograd (Sunday, July 29, 2012)
• Reading by Steven Harvey (Sunday, July 24, 2011)
• Reading by Steven Harvey (Thursday, August 5, 2010)

Stephen Haven, Director, has published two books of poems, Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The River Lock: One Boy’s Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). For Dust and Bread, he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. Haven has also published a chapbook of collaborative translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, The Enemy in Defensive Positions (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008). He is editor of The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and co-editor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry. More about Stephen Haven.

• Complications of Meaning: Narrative Strategies in Frost (Tuesday, July 31, 2012)
• Reading by Stephen Haven (Thursday, August 2, 2012)
• Reading by Stephen Haven (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)
• Reading by Stephen Haven (Tuesday, August 3, 2010)

Sonya Huber, creative nonfiction, is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), the memoir, Opa Nobody (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), and a writing textbook, The "Backwards" Research Guide: Using Your Life for Connection, Reflection, and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, 2010). More about Sonya Huber.

• Reading by Sonya Huber (Thursday, August 2, 2012)
• The Facts of the Matter: A Craft Seminary by Sonya Huber and Peter Trachtenberg (Thursday, August 4, 2011)
• Reading by Sonya Huber (Sunday, July 31, 2011)
• Truth and its Consequences: A Craft Seminar by Jill Christman, Peter Campion, and Sonya Huber (2008)

Robert Root, creative nonfiction, is the author of Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale (University of Nebraska Press, 2002), as well as The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist (University of Iowa Press, 1998). More about Robert Root.

• Reading by Robert Root (Monday, July 30, 2012)
• Essaying the Image: Ekphrasticize Yourself (Tuesday, July 31, 2011)
• Reading by Robert Root (Sunday, July 24, 2011)
• Reading by Robert Root (Tuesday, August 3, 2010)
• The Lyric Mode: A Craft Seminar by Angie Estes, Bob Root, and Kathryn Winograd (2008)

Ruth L. Schwartz, poetry, is the author of Dear Good Naked Morning (Autumn House Press, 2005), Edgewater (HarperCollins 2002), Singular Bodies (Anhinga Press, 2001), Accordion Breathing and Dancing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), and the forthcoming Bone River (Autumn House Press, 2012). Ruth is also the author of a memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story (Michigan State University Press, 2004). More about Ruth L. Schwartz.

• Reading by Ruth L. Schwartz (Monday, July 30, 2012)
• (How) Can I Say This? Writing the Difficult World: A Craft Seminar by Ruth L. Schwartz (Wednesday, August 1, 2012)
• Reading by Ruth L. Schwartz (Wednesday, July 27, 2011)
• Reading by Ruth L. Schwartz (Wednesday, July 28, 2010)
• Immersion Writing: A Craft Seminar by Bob Cowser, Jr., and Ruth L. Schwartz (2008)

Peter Trachtenberg, creative nonfiction, is the author of 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh (Penguin, 1998) and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Co., 2008). More about Peter Trachtenberg.

• The Facts of the Matter: A Craft Seminar by Peter Trachtenberg and Sonya Huber (Thursday, August 4, 2011)
• Reading by Peter Trachtenberg (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)

Kathryn Winograd, poetry, is the author of Air into Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002), a 2003 Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry. More about Kathy Winograd.

• Reading by Kathryn Winograd (Thursday, August 2, 2012)
• Enriching the Text: A Craft Seminar by Steven Harvey and Kathryn Winograd (Sunday, July 29, 2012)
• Reading by Kathryn Winograd (Sunday, July 31, 2011)
• The Lyric Mode: A Craft Seminar by Angie Estes, Bob Root, and Kathryn Winograd (2008)

Sarah M. Wells, Administrative Director, is the author of the poetry collection Pruning Burning Bushes (Wipf & Stock, 2012) and of the chapbook, Acquiesce (Finishing Line Press, 2009), winner of the 2008 Starting Gate Award and featured in the New Women's Voices Series. More about Sarah M. Wells.

• Spreading the Word: Poetry in Public - A Craft Seminar (Monday, August 6, 2012)
• Reading by Sarah M. Wells (Sunday, August 5, 2012)
• Reading by Sarah M. Wells (Sunday, July 31, 2011)
• Reading by Sarah M. Wells (Monday, August 2, 2010)
• Reading by Sarah M. Wells (2009)