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NEOMFA Visiting Writers have included:
Mickey Birnbaum Ronald Crist Edwidge Danticat William Heyen H. L. Hix Anna Leahy Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis Jenny Magnus Walter Mosley Anele Rubin
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NEOMFA FACULTY
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Faculty by Specialty:
The NEOMFA Faculty has gained regional and national recognition as distinguished creative writers and literary translators with a distinguished record of publications, performances, and awards. Faculty publication records include over fifty book-length works of poetry, fiction, and translation, and hundreds of short stories and poems published in such journals as American Poetry Review, Field, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and many others. The Playwriting Faculty has a record of performances from university theater programs to professional stages, from workshop and reading performances to full-blown, full-dress productions, locally, nationally, and internationally. Creative writing awards won by Program Faculty include fellowships and/or awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Commission, the Pushcart Prize, the Chillicothe Award, the MacDowell Colony, and even ASCAP awards for musical theater. Program Faculty regularly attend conferences, visit other institutions to give readings and workshops, and serve on committees and boards for regional and national organizations for the promotion of the literary arts. In addition, many faculty members are involved with outreach to schools, arts organizations, and regional communities.
Phone: 330-672-2101, Email: manders0@kent.edu
Maggie Anderson
teaches creative writing at Kent State University, where she directs the
Wick Poetry Center
and edits the Wick Poetry Series. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently
Windfall:
New and Selected Poems.
She has edited New & Selected Poems
of Louise McNeill, and co-edited
Learning By Heart: Poetry About
School and
A Gathering of Poets, a collection of poems commemorating
the 20th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University
in 1970. She has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Ohio Arts Council, Northern Ohio Live, and the MacDowell Colony.
She is the Director
of the NEOMFA Program.
Nuala Archer (PhD Creative Writing University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Phone: 216-687-3973, Email: hannahhoudini@adelphia.net Website
Nuala Archer teaches
creative writing at Cleveland State University. She
is the author of five books of poetry and won the National Irish Patrick Kavanagh Award for her collection Whale on the Line. She is also the editor
of
University Over the Abyss,
collected accounts of the lectures and lecturers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1942-44. Multilingual, she
has written, directed, and performed for the public around the world in
English, Spanish, and Hebrew. Brian James Baer (PhD Comparative Literature Yale University) Phone: 330-672-1813, Email: bbaer@kent.edu
Brian Baer teaches Russian and translation at Kent State University. He has published translations of works by Zhvanetsky, Shalaamov, Akhmatova, Dovlatov and contributed three entries to the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation. The lead editor of the forthcoming Beyond the Ivory Tower: Re‑Thinking Translation Pedagogy, he is currently editing and translating a collection of Russian writings on translation for the Kent State University Translation Studies Series.
Phone: 330-941-1653, Email: cmbarzak@ysu.edu
Christopher Barzak's novel One for Sorrow (Bantam Books, August 2007) won The Crawford Award for Best First Book, and is a nominee for this year's Great Lakes Book Award. One for Sorrow was recently published in translation in Italy as well. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, will be available from Bantam in November 2008. His first book in translation, Kant: For Eternal Peace (Sogosha, November 2007) is a bilingual book relating the peace theories of the philosopher Immanuel Kant aimed at Japanese teens. Barzak is also co-editor of the second volume of an anthology called Interfictions. Barzak is a Visiting Assistant Professor at YSU for 2008-2009.
Marya Bednerik (PhD Theater) Phone: 330-672-0112, Email: mbedneri@kent.edu
Sharon Masingale Bell (PhD, French, Brown University) Phone: 330-672-1818 Email: sbell@kent.edu
Sharon Masingale Bell specializes in literary translation, Caribbean literature in French, and Caribbean folklore. Her publications include articles about translating J.-S. Alexis and translating race, class, and power. She teaches French and translation at Kent State University and has published a translation of Alexis "The Enchanted Second Lieutenant" from Romancéro aux étoiles (Callaloo). Her translation of Alexis Romancéro aux étoiles won the Gregory Rabassa Prize for translation in 1989.
Phone: 330-972-6960, Email: marybid@uakron.edu
Mary Biddinger teaches poetry writing and literature at The University of Akron. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals including American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, and Ploughshares, and she is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007). She edits the Akron Series in Poetry, and is the Founding Editor of Barn Owl Review. She is the UAkron Coordinator for the NEOMFA.
Phone: 330-941-3414, Email: psbrady@ysu.edu
Phil Brady teaches creative writing and literature as well as directing the Poetry Center at Youngstown State University. His newest book is Fathom (2006). Previous books of poems include Weal and Forged Correspondences. He has also published a memoir, To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations and the Afterlife, and co-edited, with James F. Carens, Critical Essays on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He has won awards from the Ohio Arts Council and New York State, and residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Headlands Colony, as well as artist colonies in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and the Czech Republic. He is Poetry Editor of Artful Dodge, and Executive Director of Etruscan Press. For kicks, he plays in the New-Celtic band, Brady's Leap. He is a past director of the NEOMFA, and the YSU Coordinator for the NEOMFA.
Phone: 216-687-4522 Email: n.chandler@csuohio.edu Website
Neal
Chandler is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Cleveland
State University where he teaches creative writing. His published work
includes
Benediction: A Book of Stories, Appeal to a Lower Court, a
three act play, and stories and essays in several magazines and journals.
Phone: 440-964-6672 Email: rcraik@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-1807 E-mail:
mdejulio@kent.edu
Maryann DeJulio teaches French and literary and cultural translation at Kent State University. She has translated work by contemporary French and Italian writers (Yves Bonnefoy, Emmanuel Hocquard (Red Dust, 1985), and Monica Sarsini (Italica Press, 1999) and a play by the eighteenth‑century French activist Olympe de Gouges. A member of ALTA, she has published translation articles and reviews in Contemporary Literature, Translation Review, and Studies in Twentieth‑Century Literature.
 Michael
Dumanis (PhD, University of Houston; MFA, University of Iowa)
Phone: 216-687-3961, Email:
m.dumanis@csuohio.edu
Website
Michael Dumanis teaches literature and creative writing at Cleveland State University, where he serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and edits the books in their poetry and novella series. His first collection of poems, My Soviet Union won the Juniper Prize for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press and appeared in Spring 2007. He is also the coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and the Section Editor for the poetries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Russia, and Slovakia in the forthcoming Graywolf Press anthology The New European Poets, edited by Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller. His poems have appeared in such journals as Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, and Verse, and his writing has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship (to Bulgaria), a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, and fellowships to Yaddo and the Wesleyan Writers' Conference.
Phone: 330-672-1770 Email: zedgell@kent.edu
Zee Edgell teaches creative writing at Kent State University. She has published three novels and many stories including: Time and the River, (Harcourt/Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 2007) and The Festival of San Joaquin (Heinemann). Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, and Spanish. She has traveled widely in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America. She has won many international honors, including the Fawcett Prize in England and a citation from the government of Belize, where she taught at the National University. Zee Edgell was awarded an M.B.E. (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours List, London Gazette, June 15, 2007, “for services to Literature and the Community.”
Radd K. Ehrman (PhD, Classical Philology, University of Illinois)
Phone:
330-672-1802 E-mail:
rehrman@kent.edu
Radd
Ehrman is a member of the Classics faculty at Kent State University. With
Emeritus Professor Joseph L. Baird of English, he is currently translating
the entire corpus of the letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Two volumes have
appeared (1994 and 1998); the third volume is currently in preparation. He
is also working on the fragments of the Roman fabulae togatae. Mike Geither (MFA, Playwriting, University of Iowa)
Phone:
216-687-3955 Email:
m.geither@csuohio.edu
Mike Geither has served as Playwright-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Theatre and Co-Director of CPT's Playwrights Collective. His plays and solo performances have been performed widely in Ohio and across the country and his work has been recognized by the Ohio Arts Council and Theatre Communications Group. He is the CSU Coordinator for the NEOMFA.
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John Gerlach has published short stories in Prairie Schooner, The Ohio Review, Ascent, and many other national journals. His critical articles have appeared in Illinois Quarterly and Studies in Short Fiction. He is the author of Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story. He has won an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship and a Research Award from Cleveland State University, where he is Professor of English and Creative Writing.
Phone: 216-687-3962, Email: a.gosselin@csuohio.edu
Adrenne Gosselin is faculty advisor to The Vindicator and teaches African-American literature, American literature, and creative writing at Cleveland State University. She has published articles in Other Voices, The African American Review, Modern Language Studies, and other journals. She also edited Murder from the "Other" Side: Multicultural Detective Fiction.
Phone: 330-941-3418, Email: whgreenway@ysu.edu
is the author of seven collections of poems, including Pressure Under Grace, Simmer Dim, How the Dead Bury the Dead, Where We've Been, Ascending Order, and Fishing at the End of the World. Greenway's work has appeared in over a hundred journals, including Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest. He co-authored, with Elton Glaser, I Have My Own Song For It, a collection of poetry about Ohio and by Ohio poets. He has won the Ohioana Award and been named Georgia Author of the Year. He teaches creative writing and Modern British literature at Youngstown State University.
Phone: 330-672-1778, Email: extrap@kent.edu
Donald ("Mack") Hassler is Professor of English at Kent State University, where he has also held positions as Undergraduate Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator, and Acting Dean of the Honors College. He has published and edited many books of criticism on science fiction and political fiction. Hassler is the editor of Extrapolations. His literary criticism is widely published, and his poems have appeared in over a hundred journals, including Onionhead, Decodings, and The Hiram Poetry Journal. Dr. Hassler is currently working under contract with the University of South Carolina Press for a follow-up volume to his 1997 edited title Political Science Fiction.
Carol Maier (PhD, Spanish, Rutgers) Phone: 330-672-1797 Email: cmaier@kent.edu
Carol Maier
is Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Classical Studies at
Kent State University. She has translated work by Octavio
Armand, Rosa Chacel, Severo Sarduy, María Zambrano, and others.
With Anurahda Dingwaney, she co-edited Between Languages and Cultures:
Translating Cross-Cultural Texts. She has published articles and reviews
about translation and has received fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and awards
from ALTA, the MLA, and the Eugene Kayden Translation Committee.
Phone:
330-672-1795 E-mail:
fkenney@kent.edu
Françoise Massardier-Kenney teaches French and translation at Kent State University and is translation coordinator for the Institute for Applied Linguistics. She has free-lanced as a translator in the fields of business, psychoanalysis, political science, and literature. She is the general editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly monograph series and works on the pedagogy of translation, gender and translation. With Doris Kadish, she co-edited Translating Slavery, and she is currently translating Georges Sand's Valvedre.
Phone: 330-499-9600 x 53386 Email: rmiltner@stark.kent.edu
Robert Miltner is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Stark where he teaches literature and creative writing, and directs The Enormous Room Reading Series. Miltner is the author of author of a dozen chapbooks, including Against the Simple, Canyons of Sleep, Rock the Boat, and Fellow Traveler. A full length collection of prose poems, Resurrection Machine, is forthcoming from All Nations Press. Miltner is co-editor of New Paths to Raymond Carver: Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry, forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press, and he is editor for The Raymond Carver Review.
Phone: 330-672-1751 Email: voconnor@kent.edu
Varley O'Connor teaches creative writing at Kent State University, Kent campus. She has published three novels, The Cure (Bellevue Literary Press, 2007), A Company of Three (Algonquin, 2003), and Like China (William Morrow, 1991). Her shorter prose--fiction and nonfiction-- has appeared in The Sun magazine, Driftwood, AWP Writer's Chronicle, and Faultline: A Journal of Art and Literature. An MFA graduate of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, O'Connor has also taught at Irvine, Hofstra University, Brooklyn College, the North Carolina Writer's Network, the Sackett Street Workshop in Brooklyn, and for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Before changing careers to writing and teaching, she worked for a number of years as a professional actor and retains a keen interest in drama, as well as prose writing.
Craig Paulenich teaches literature and creative writing at Kent State University, Salem campus. He is author of the book of poetry, Drift of the Hunt, (Nobodaddies Press, 2006)and co-editor (with Kent Johnson) of Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press, 1990). His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, the South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, the Hiram Poetry Review, Artful Dodge, and others, and he has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Nobodaddies 1994 & Seems 2002). He is the KSU Coordinator for the NEOMFA.
Phone: 330-972-7470 Email: rpope@uakron.edu Website
Bob Pope is the author of Private Acts, a short story collection, and Jacks Universe, a novel. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Chelsea, The Black Warrior Review, and many other journals. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, and many other prizes. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Akron.
Phone: Email: screese@ysu.edu Website
Steve Reese teaches literature and
creative writing at Youngstown State University. His poems have appeared
in Poetry Northwest, The Laurel Review, Fine Madness, and many
other journals. His first book of poems, Enough Light to Steer By,
was published in 1998 by Cleveland State University. He has also produced The
Feast of St. Monday, a CD of original music; and The Road to Killeshandra,
a CD of original and Celtic traditional music performed by Brady's
Leap, with Kelly Bancroft, Phil Brady, and William Greenway.
Sheila Schwartz (MA, Creative Writing, State University of New York at Binghamton) Phone: Email: s.shwartz@csuohio.edu Website
Sheila Schwartz teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University. She has won an O'Henry Award (1999), a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and many other honors. Her stories have appeared in Pushcart Prize Anthology Volume XIV, Best of Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, and Atlantic Monthly. Schwartz has also published a collection of short stories Imagine A Great White Light which won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, and has a novel forthcoming Lies Will Take You Somewhere... from Etruscan Press.
Phone:
330-672-2150 E-mail:
jtrzecia@kent.edu
Joanna Trzeciak is Assistant Professor of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University. She specializes in literary translation of Polish and Russian literature, and has translated the poems of Wislawa Szymborska in Miracle Fair and the work of Tomek Tryzna in Girl Nobody.
R. Kelly Washbourne (MA, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst) Phone: 330-672-1793 Email: kwashbou@kent.edu Kelly Washbourne teaches Spanish Translation at Kent State University. His research interests are in north-south translation between the Americas, fin de siècle poetry and poetics, translation and identity, and corpus linguistics. He has translated 19th and 20th century writers from Spanish and Portuguese, including screenwriter-playwright Ricardo Talesnik (Argentina), and cultural theorists Roberto Schwarz (Brazil) and Antonio Benítez-Rojo (Cuba). He is currently writing and compiling a critical multilingual anthology of modern revolutionary poetry from the Americas.
Phone: E-mail:
ew22@uakron.edu
Eric Wasserman teaches Fiction Writing, Craft &
Theory of the Short Story, Fiction Appreciation, and Composition. His
writing has appeared in various publications, including Glimmer Train
and Poets & Writers Magazine Online. His short story “He’s No Sandy
Koufax” won First Prize in the 13th Annual David Dornstein Creative Writing
Contest, and his story "Brothers" was recently named as the winner of the
2007 Cervena Barva Press Fiction Chapbook Prize. He is also the author of a
book of short fiction, The Temporary Life. His interests include old
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