Graduate Faculty
Fiction
Joan Connor
Most Recent Book:
The World Before Mirrors,
Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Connor has published hundreds of stories and essays in an array of journals. Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons, won the AWP award for short fiction, and her collection of essays, The World Before Mirrors, won the River Teeth award.
Zakes Mda
Most Recent Book:
Cion,
Picador, 2007.
A novelist and playwright, Zakes has received every major South African prize for his work, which includes The Heart of Redness, Ways of Dying, She Plays with the Darkness, and most recently, Cion.
Darrell Spencer
Most Recent Book:
One Mile Past Dangerous Curve: A Novel,
University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Winner of the 1998 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Spencer is the author of four story collections and the recent novel, One Mile Past Dangerous Curve.
Non-Fiction
Dinty W. Moore
Most Recent Book:
Between Panic and Desire,
University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Moore is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire and four other books. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Utne Reader, and many other venues.
Poetry
Mark Halliday
Most Recent Book:
Keep this Forever,
Tupelo Press, 2008.
Halliday is the author of five books of poetry, including Keep this Forever, Jab, Selfwolf, and Tasker Street. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Halliday has published numerous essays on contemporary poets.
J. Allyn Rosser
Most Recent Book:
Foiled Again: Poems,
Ivan R. Dee, 2007.
Rosser’s newest poetry collection, Foiled Again, won the 2007 New Criterion Poetry Prize. She has received numerous other awards for her work, among them the Morse Poetry Prize, the Peter I. B. Lavan Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, the Crab Orchard Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Special Programs & Visiting Writers
Kevin Haworth
Most Recent Book:
The Discontinuity of Small Things,
Quality Words in Print, 2005.
Haworth’s first novel, The Discontinuity of Small Things, was awarded the Samuel Goldberg Prize for best Jewish fiction by a writer under 40. It was also recognized as runner-up for the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Haworth coordinates the department's special programs, including the Spring Literary Festival and our visiting writers’ series.
