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"What Susquehanna offers its undergraduate
writers rivals that of any established and exemplary
MFA program. It's an amazing program in every way."
--Jill McCorkle, author of Creatures of Habit and
The Cheer Leader
Faculty
The writing faculty have been honored for their teaching and creative work, including such awards as the Flannery
O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Ohio State University Press/The
Journal Poetry Prize; three
Pushcart Prizes for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry;
the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Prize; a Newhouse award from the John Gardner
Foundation; the George Garrett Fiction Prize; the Sawtooth poetry prize; CASE Professor of the Year; a national endowment
for the arts fellowship in fiction; and nine other creative writing
fellowships.
"The professors foster a sense of community
that is unheard of on the undergraduate level."
-- Sal Pane ’07
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Gary Fincke Ph.D., Kent
State University -- Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Prize
for Short Fiction and the 2003 Ohio State University Press/The
Journal Poetry Prize, Dr. Fincke has twenty-one books
in print, including The Fire Landscape (poems), 2008; Standing around the Heart (poems), 2005: Sorry I Worried You (stories),
2004; Amp'd (nonfiction), 2004; The Stone Child (stories), 2003; Writing Letters for the Blind (poems),
2003; Blood Ties (poems), 2002; and Emergency Calls (stories),
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Tom Bailey Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton;
MFA, University of Iowa -- Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction
Tom Bailey's first
novel, The Grace that Keeps this World, was published
as a Shaye Areheart book in the fall of 2005. Cotton Song was published in the fall of 2006. He is the author of Crow
Man, a collection of short stories, and two books from
Oxford University Press, A Short Story Writer's Companion (2001) and On Writing Short Stories (2000). The Grace that Keeps this World earned him the 2006 Mississippi Artsand Letters Fiction Prize.
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Karla
Kelsey, Ph.D., University of Denver, MFA, University
of Iowa -- Poetry, Editing and Publishing
Kelsey’s book of poetry, Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, was chosen by Carolyn
Forche to win the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. The book was
published by Ahsahta Press in early 2006. Also the author
of the chapbook Little Dividing Doors in the Mind (Noemi Press 2005). From 2003-2005 she was Associate Editor
of the Denver Quarterly. Her new collection of poems, Iteration Nets, will be published in 2010, by Boise State University's Ahsahta Press. |
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Glen Retief, Ph.D., Florida State University as well as degrees
in English and African Studies from his native South Africa
Dr. Retief joins us from Eastern Kentucky University, where he taught introductory writing and English courses and creative nonfiction. Building upon his publications of short stories, essays, and articles, Dr. Retief is developing a memoir from The Chameleon’s Home Country, a collection of personal essays about art, literature, politics, apartheid, and sexuality. |
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Mary Bannon M.A., University
of Florida -- Screenwriting, Film Studies
Bannon has worked in Hollywood as a script
reader, an agent's assistant, a videographer, and a script
consultant, and she was a Director's Assistant on the 1993
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"Each professor set aside the time to
intimately talk to me about my work. Every comment I ever received
from a professor was professional and aided the revisions of my
work immensely. I came out of the Writers Institute feeling like
I came out of grad school because the workshop environment was
so organized and fulfilling." -- Dawn Raszcewski ’07
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