| Jennifer Finney Boylan's homepage |
Professor of English

Jennifer Finney Boylan, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. Author of a bestselling memoir, SHE'S NOT THERE (Broadway/Doubleday), as well as a collection of short stories, REMIND ME TO MURDER YOU LATER (Johns Hopkins); three novels, THE PLANETS (Vintage), THE CONSTELLATIONS (Random House); and GETTING IN (Warner); four young adult books published under a pseudonyum; stories and articles in GQ, SOUTHERN REVIEW, CONDE NAST TRAVELLER, ALLURE, BOSTON REVIEW, and elsewhere.

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Professor of English

Peter Harris, poet, and critic. His BLUE HALLEUJAHS won the 1996 Maine Chapbook Competition. Poems and translations published in national literary magazines such as THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, CHELSEA, THE ATLANTA REVIEW, THE LITERARY REVIEW and COLLEGE ENGLISH; editor of the Poetry Chronicle, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW.

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Dana Professor of Creative Writing

Susan Kenney, novelist and short story writer. Author of two novels: IN ANOTHER COUNTRY and SAILING, as well as the mysteries GARDEN OF MALICE, GRAVES IN ACADEME, and ONE FELL SLOOP (all published by Viking-Penguin); short stories in THE HUDSON REVIEW, EPOCH, THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE, and other national magazines and anthologies, including PRIZE STORIES and THE O. HENRY AWARDS; reviews in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE BOSTON GLOBE and DOWNEAST; winner of the QPBC New Voices Award.

| Debra Spark's homepage |
Professor of English

Debra Spark, short story writer and novelist. Author of numerous short stories in magazines including ESQUIRE, AGNI,THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, AND PLOUGHSHARES. Her first novel COCONUTS FOR THE SAINT (Faber & Faber) won the 1995 PLOUGHSHARES AWARD. A second novel, THE GHOST OF BRIDGETOWN, was a finalist for the 2002 Binghamton University/John Gardner Award. Her reviews and articles have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE WASHINGTON POST, YANKEE, and FOOD AND WINE, among others. Ms. Spark has also edited a collection of contemporary short stories, TWENTY UNDER THIRTY. She teaches in the graduate program at Warren Wilson. Current director of the program.

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Adrian Blevins, poet and esayist. Author of THE BRASS GIRL BROUHAHA (Ausable Press, 2003), which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and THE MAN WHO WENT OUT FOR CIGARETTES (Bright Hill Press, 1996). She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation Award for Poetry and the Lamar Yark Prize for Nonfiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in THE UTNE REVIEW, THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, THE DRUNKEN BOAT AND SALON.COM, among other magazines and journals.

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Associate Professor of English

Michael Burke, creative nonfiction and magazine writer. Essays and articles have appeared in OUTSIDE, ISLANDS, YANKEE, DOWN EAST, NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY, COUNTRY LIFE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOISTON GLOBE, CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT.

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Associate Professor of English

Natalie Harris, short story writer and essayist. Stories and essays have been published in THE LAUREL REVIEW, THE LARCOM REVIEW, THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND REVIEW.