The English Department

(Phd 2012, Poetry) is the author of two books of poetry: Mormon Boy (Elixir, 2012) and We Deserve the Gods We Ask For (Gival, 2015). His writing has won the Bevel Summers Fiction Prize from Shenandoah, and the Flash Fiction Award from Literal Latte.

(PhD 2011, Poetry) is the author of Ringer—her second book of poetry, and winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

(MFA 2011, Fiction) is the author of three novels: The Blood of Heaven (2013), Secessia (2015), and The New Inheritors (2018), which together form the first three volumes of a tetralogy about the history of the Gulf Coast. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction, and selected as one of Gambit’s 40 Under 40.

(PhD 2010, Poetry) is the author of four collections of poetry: Fair Copy (2012, for which she won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry), Vow (2013), No Girls No Telephones (written with Brittany Cavallaro and published in 2013), and Bad Star (2013).

(MFA CNF, 2008) is the author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others. Her journalism and writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Haaretz, Al Jazeera English, and elsewhere. Her short fiction has been published in The Kenyon Review and was featured as a Story of the Week in Narrative.

(PhD 2008, Fiction) is the author of The Palace Blues: A Novel, a 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Lesbian Fiction.

(PhD 2007, Fiction) is the author of the novels The Envy of Paradise (Inanna, 2019) Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons (Inanna, 2018), which won the 2018 Best Book Award in Historical Fiction. Jocelyn’s short stories and essays have been published in many journals, including Hayden’s Ferry Review and Room Magazine.

(PhD 2007, Poetry) is the author of the poetry collection Dear Blackbird, which won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and her other awards include the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Associated Writing Programs’ AWP Intro Award, and the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Sycamore Review, and Poetry.

(PhD Fiction, 2007) is the author of Only Love Can Break Your Heart, a Southern Independent Booksellers Association bestseller. His writing has appeared in Lit Hub, Nashville Scene, Memphis Commercial Appeal, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2006, Poetry) is the author of four books of poetry: Again (2020), No Confession, No Mass (2015), In the Human Zoo (2011), and The Body Is No Machine (2007)