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Michelle Herman, Professor

Professor Herman is the recipient of both Ohio State's university-wide and the College of Humanities' highest honors for teaching, the University Distinguished Teaching Award (1999) and the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (2007). She is the author of the novels Dog (2005) and Missing (1990), the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life (1998), and the collection of personal essays The Middle of Everything (2005). Her many awards and honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Copernicus Foundation, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for "best Jewish fiction" and the James Michener Fellowship. Her stories, novellas, and essays have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including The North American Review, The Southern Review, Story Quarterly, American Scholar, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and have been anthologized in Twenty Under Thirty: Best Stories by America's New Young Writers, Jewish-American Fiction: A Century of Stories, Stumbling and Raging: Politically Inspired Stories, and other volumes. Educated at Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, Professor Herman is completing her twenty-first year at OSU, which she finds astonishing. She is a former director of the Creative Writing Program as well as the longtime co-editor, with Professor Kathy Fagan, of OSU's prizewinning literary magazine, The Journal. Professor Herman, along with Professors Fagan, Lee K. Abbott, and the late David Citino, was responsible for the creation of OSU's MFA program in Creative Writing, and she has recently designed and introduced a new graduate program to the University: an Interdisciplinary Specialization in Fine Arts for graduate students in all disciplines (a degree to be earned concurrently with the degree in one's major field). She lives in Clintonville with her husband, still life painter Glen Holland, and their daughter, Grace, a junior at Columbus Alternative High School.

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