SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Fall 2008
Thursday, September 25. Dinty Moore. Dinty Moore taught creative writing for many years at Penn State Altoona, and is currently a Professor of English at Ohio University His books include The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, Toothpick Men, and his most recent memoir, Between Panic and Desire. His essays and stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Arts & Letters, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse. He also edits Brevity, an online journal of creative nonfiction and he is on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction magazine.
Thursday, October 2. Mark Halliday. Mark Halliday has a Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan University, Indiana University, and at Ohio University since 1996. His books of poetry are Little Star (1987), a National Poetry Series selection, Tasker Street (1992), winner of the Juniper Prize, Selfwolf (1999), and Jab (2002).
Thursday, October 16. Ann Pancake. Ann Pancake’s collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless Award and was published in 2001. Other prizes she has received include a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South. She holds a Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Washington and now teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. Her novel, Strange as This Weather Has Been, was published in 2007.
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