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PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Gregory Wolfe, director, and writer-in-residence at SPU, is publisher and editor of , one of the premier literary quarterlies in America. Wolfe is the author of Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery (2003), Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel (1998) and Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography (1997), and editor of The New Religious Humanists: A Reader (1997). His work has appeared in , , Modern Age, , , and elsewhere.
CURRENT FACULTY
Robert Clark (Creative Nonfiction) is the author of three books of nonfiction and four novels, most recently the novel Lives of the Artists. His other novels include Love Among the Ruins, Mr. White's Confession (which won the Edgar Award), and In the Deep Midwinter. A memoir, My Grandfather's House: A Geneology of Doubt and Faith, was published in 1999. He is a Guggenheim Fellow working on a collection of essays on art and belief.
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Leslie Leyland Fields (Creative Nonfiction) is the author of nonfiction books Surviving the Island of Grace, Out on the Deep Blue, and The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, among others. She teaches at Kodiak College and fishes commercially with her family. Her essays have appeared in , , , and .
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Jeanine Hathaway (Poetry) teaches writing and literature at . Her books include the autobiographical novel, Motherhouse (Hyperion, 1992) and a collection of poems, The Self as Constellation (UNT Press, 2002), which won the 2001 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry. She has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including DoubleTake, , and The Best Spiritual Writing. She received the Wichita State University Regents' Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, as well as the Seaton Award for Poetry in both 1985 and 1990.
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Bret Lott (Fiction) is the author of 11 books, most recently the story collection The Difference Between Women and Men, the nonfiction book Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life, and the novel A Song I Knew by Heart. He is also the author of the best-selling novel Jewel, which was selected for Oprah's book club in 1999. Lott has taught in the MFA programs at Bennington and Vermont College, and is the former editor of .
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Gina Ochsner (Fiction) is the acclaimed author of two short story collections, most recently People I Wanted to Be. Her fiction has received numerous awards and has appeared in and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her first collection, The Necessary Grace to Fall, was selected for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. It also won the Oregon Book Award for Short Fiction and the PNBA award for short stories and was an Austin Chronicle Top Ten Pick.
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Jeanne Murray Walker's (Poetry) poetry appears in periodicals such as , , , , , and . Her poetry collections include Nailing Up the Home Sweet Home, Coming into History, and A Deed to the Light. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Colladay Award, and The Prairie Schooner/Strousse Award, and was named a Pew Fellow in Poetry in 1998. Her first play won the Washington National Theater Competition. Subsequently, her plays have been performed in Boston, Chicago, and London.
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Recent Faculty
Deborah Joy Corey (Fiction) has published stories in many quarterlies, including Ploughshares, Story, New Letters, The Crescent Review, and Image. Her first novel, Losing Eddie (Algonquin), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was voted one of the best 100 novels of the '90s. Her second novel, The Skating Pond (Putnam) was published in 2003.
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B.H. Fairchild’s (Poetry) most recent book of poems, The Art of the Lathe (Alice James), was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award and received the Kingsley Tufts Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN Center West Poetry Award. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowships. His latest book, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton), won the National Book Critics Circle award.
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Paul Mariani (Poetry) is one of America's leading literary biographers and poets. His books include the poetry collections Salvage Operations and The Great Wheel, as well as biographies of William Carlos Williams (nominated for a National Book Award), John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and most recently Hart Crane. Three of his biographies were New York Times notable books. His most recent books are Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercise of St. Ignatius, winner of the Catholic Book Award, and God & the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, & the Ineffable.
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| Sandra Scofield (Fiction) is the author of Occasions of Sin (Norton, 2004), Gringa (winner of the New American Writing Award), Beyond Deserving (a 1991 finalist for a National Book Award), and A Chance to See Egypt (winner of a Best Fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1997). She received an NEA fellowship in 1991 and has participated in outreach programs for Oregon Literary Arts and the National Book Foundation. Her newest book for writers, The Scene Book, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2007. She is also at work on a second memoir. |
Visitors for this academic year include Charles D'Ambrosio, Ann Copeland, Gina Ochsner, Jeanine Hathaway, Thomas Lynch, Luci Shaw, and more.
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