UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING

Resident faculty

Stuart Dischell

teaches poetry writing as well as modern and contemporary poetry. He is the author of three collections of poems: Evenings & Avenues, Good Hope Road, and Dig Safe. He has received honors and awards from the National Poetry Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. His work appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including Good Poems, Hammer and Blaze, and Pushcart Prize.

Jennifer Grotz

is the author of Cusp, winner of the Bakeless prize for Poetry and Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Best American Poetry. Additionally, she is Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and co-organizes the Krakow Poetry Seminar.

Terry Kennedy

, in addition to coordinating the visiting writers’ series, teaches courses in introductory poetry as well as the undergraduate poetry writing workshop. His work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines including storySouth, The South Carolina Review, and Southern Humanities Review.

Craig Nova

is the author of eleven novels which have been widely translated. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harper-Saxton Prize, and other awards. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire and The Paris Review and has been included in The Paris Review Anthology and The Best American Short Stories.

Michael Parker

is the author of four novels—Hello Down There, a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize; Towns without Rivers; Virginia Lovers; and If You Want Me to Stay—and a collection of novellas and stories, The Geographical Cure. His work has appeared in many magazines including Shenandoah, Oxford American, The Georgia Review, and Five Points and has been anthologized in Pushcart Prize, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and New Stories from the South. He has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. A new collection of stories, Don’t Make Me Stop Now, is forthcoming in 2007.

Allison Seay

earned her MFA from UNC Greensboro and currently serves as Assistant Editor of The Greensboro Review. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Harvard Review, and Mississippi Review.

Lee Zacharias

is the author of a novel, Lessons, and a book of short stories, Helping Muriel Make It through the Night. She has published numerous essays, short stories, and photographs and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. In addition to writing workshops in fiction and nonfiction, she teaches courses in the structure of fiction and in the contemporary novel. She is the recipient of the 2001 College, 2002 University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and 2003 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Awards for teaching excellence.

Each year writers and editors

visit the campus for readings. Recent guests include Lee K. Abbott, Doris Betts, Robert Boswell, Carrie Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Collier, Robert Creely, Lan Samantha Chang, Stephen Dobyns, John Dufresne, Paula Fox, James Galvin, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, Linda Gregerson, Terrance Hayes, Seamus Heaney, Bill Henderson, Peter Ho Davies, Garrett Hongo, Marie Howe, Carolyn Kizer, Thomas Lux, Gail Mazur, Peter Meinke, Robert Morgan, Antonya Nelson, Lewis Nordan, Robert Olmstead, Janet Peery, Robert Pinksy, Stanley Plumly, Padgett Powell, Donald Revell, Mark Richard, Ira Sadoff, David St. John, Joanna Scott, R.T. Smith, Gerald Stern, Natasha Trethewey, Ellen Bryant Voight, Peter Turchi, Allen Wier, Robert Wrigley, and Eleanor Wilner.