Deborah Fleming | College of Arts & Sciences

Deborah Fleming

Professor of English
Editor and Director of Ashland Poetry Press

308 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall
419.289.5789
dfleming@ashland.edu

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Deborah Fleming

Professor of English

Editor and Director of Ashland Poetry Press

Biography

Joined Ashland University faculty in 1993 and serves as editor and director of Ashland Poetry Press
Teaches courses in Creative Writing, Literature and Composition
Research interests are W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, Anglo-Irish literature, modern poetry and environmentalist literature
Author of “Into a New Country,” a 2016 collection of free verse and formalist poems published by Cherry Grove Collections; “Without Leave,” a novel published by Black Mountain Press; “Morning, Winter Solstice,” a collection of poetry published by Vineyard Press; “Migrations,” a collection of poetry published by Finishing Line Press; "A man who does not exist: The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge,” published by University of Michigan Press; and “Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers,” published by University of South Carolina Press
Her collection of essays titled “Waiting for the Foal,” is due to be published in 2019 by Kent State University Press
Received the Asheville Award in the Novel, the Vandewater Poetry Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Served as keynote speaker at the W. B. Yeats Society of New York and the Tor House Foundation Fall Festival

The Ohio State University, Ph.D., M.A., B.A.