Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
Adrian Blevins
Associate Professor of English [Creative Writing]

Department Links:       English, Creative Writing
Affiliated Department(s):   Creative Writing


Office: Miller Library 217
Phone: 207-859-5253
Fax: (Creative Writing )
Fax 2: 859-5252 (English )
Email:

Mailing Address:
5250 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Office Hours:
T, TH and by appointment

Semester Schedule
Education

MFA, Poetry, Warren Wilson College, 2002.

MA, Fiction, Hollins University, 1990.

BA, English, Virginia Intermont College, 1986.
Areas of Expertise:
  • Writing Poems, Writing Stories, and Writing Essays
  • Contemporary American Poetry and Fiction
  • Teaching Creative Writing
  • The Comic Vision (in contemporary American poetry and fiction)
  • Southern Literature
Professional Information

Adrian Blevins’ Live from the Homesick Jamboree has just been released from Wesleyan University Press. Her first full-length, The Brass Girl Brouhaha , was published by Ausable Press in 2003 and won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Blevins is also the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award for poetry, the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction, and a 1996 Bright Hill Press chapbook award for The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes . Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, North American Review, Ploughshares , and many other top literary journals.

Other Courses Taught
Course Course Title
Your Place in Space: The Adventurous WritersÂ’ Adventurous Workshop
Southern Comic Novels
The Art of the Personal Essay
Search for Identity in Twentieth Century Fiction by Women
Search for Identity in Twentieth Century Fiction by Men