The English Department

(PhD 2006, Fiction) is the author of the story collection We Two Alone (House of Anansi Press, 2020; HarperVia 2021), the winner of the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers' Union of Canada for best debut collection in English. His fiction has appeared in Brick, PRISM International, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. He is also the co-creator of two popular board book series, Cozy Classics and Star Wars Epic Yarns.

(PhD 2006, Poetry) is the author of many books of poetry, including Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin, 2004), and The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), as well as the novel A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing, 2011) and the critical work Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2015).

(MA 2005, Fiction) is the author of Any Other Place: Stories, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford Award. His work has been published in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

(PhD 2005, Fiction) is the author of the memoir The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood, which won the Lambda Literary Award in 2012. His work has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, Fugue, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2003, Fiction) is the author of The Wettest County in the World (Scribner, 2008), an international bestseller and a New York Times Editor’s Pick. The feature film, Lawless, by director John Hillcoat was based on the novel. His other novels include The Third Translation (Hyperion, 2005), an international bestseller, and The Night Swimmer (Scribner, 2012). His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction and essays have been published in Glimmer Train, The New England Review, Outside Magazine, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, and in other journals and magazines. His essay “The Real Thing” was anthologized in the 2017 Best Food Writing. He is adapting his work for an HBO limited series.

(PhD 2003, Poetry) is the author of three book-length poetry collections, most recently Song of a Living Room (Ahsahta Press).

(MFA 2003, Fiction) is the author of What is Visible. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Atlantic, Best New American Voices, Iowa Review, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, Village Voice, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the Edward Albee and William Randolph Hearst foundations, the American Antiquarian Society, and elsewhere, as well as research fellowships from the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

(PhD 2003, Poetry) is the author of several poetry collections, most recently What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems (C&R Press, 2021).

(BA 2003, Creative Writing) is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 2016 film Moonlight won many awards and honors, including The Academy Award for Best Picture, and Jenkins also received a nomination for Best Director. His other works include the award-winning 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk, and he directed the Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie.

(MFA 2003, Fiction) is the author of The Sweetheart (Simon & Schuster, 2016), longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She has been named a Debut Author Worth Reading by The Reading Room. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Mid-American Review, and The Greensboro Review.