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M.F.A., University of Arkansas. Prose fiction writing. Author of Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, Living After Midnight, Wet Places at Noon, all collections of stories. His many short stories and reviews, as well as articles on American Literature, have appeared in such journals and magazines as Harper's , The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Southern Review, Epoch,  Boulevard, and The North American Review. His fiction has been often reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and The Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards. He has twice won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded a Major Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 1991. Recipient of the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. His latest collection of stories, All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories, was published by Norton in June of 2006.

Books by Lee K. Abbott

Henri is the author of six books of poems: Blackbird and Wolf, Middle Earth (a finalist for the Pulitzer), The Visible Man , The Look of Things, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge, and The Marble Queen. He is the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other prestigious awards.

Books by Henri Cole

Kathy Fagan holds the M.F.A. from Columbia University and the Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She is the author of three books of poems, The Raft, a National Poetry Series Award Winner (Dutton, 1985), MOVING & ST RAGE (Univ of North Texas Press, 1999), winner of the 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, and most recently, The Charm (Zoo Press, 2002). Her work has been anthologized in Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets (Doubleday, 1989), Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place (HeyDay, 1999), Extraordinary Tide: Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Columbia, 2001), American Diaspora (Iowa, 2001), The Breath of Parted Lips: 25 Years of Poems from the Frost Place (CavanKerry, 2001), and Poet's Choice (Harcourt, 2006), edited by Edward Hirsch. Her poems have appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, FIELD, The Kenyon Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Shenandoah, and The Missouri Review. She is the recipient of Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. Formerly Director of Creative Writing, she continues to serve as co-editor of The Journal, for which she and Michelle Herman were awarded the 2004 Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence.

Books by Kathy Fagan

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, 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 has been teaching at OSU for nineteen years and is a former director of the Creative Writing Program as well as co-editor, with Kathy Fagan, of OSU's literary magazine, The Journal. Professor Herman, along with Professors Lee K. Abbott, Kathy Fagan, 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 is also the Coordinator of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Freshman Common Book Program. She lives in Clintonville with her husband, still life painter Glen Holland, and their daughter, Grace, a freshman at Columbus Alternative High School.

Books by Michelle Herman

Author of Ecstatic in the Poison (Sewanee/Overlook Press 2003), Babylon in a Jar (Houghton Mifflin 1998), The Glass Anvil (University of Michigan 1997), Saints and Strangers, After The Lost War: A Narrative, The Never-Ending: New Poems, The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood. Articles on Whitman, Hawthorne, Adrienne Rich, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, and Jorie Graham. Articles on sentimentality in contemporary poetry. Articles on anthologies of contemporary poetry. Poems in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Poetry and other journals. Short stories in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and other journals. Personal essays in Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, The Oxford American, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, and The Washington Post Magazine. Recipient of the Writer Bynner Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Saints and Strangers, and finalist for the National Book Award for After the Lost War. Recipient of The Poet's Prize for After the Lost War. Recipient of the Haines Prize for poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, The Taft Distinguished Faculty Award, the Ohioiana Award for lifetime contributions to poetry in Ohio, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, he was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Andrew lives in Upper Arlington, just four miles from campus, with his wife Erin McGraw; Max, a labradoodle; and Sister, a coonhound mix adopted from the Union County shelter.

Books by Andrew Hudgins

(Professor) Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.F.A., University of Arkansas. Creative nonfiction and fiction. Author of River of Heaven (April 2008), The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; From Our House; Turning Bones; Quakertown; and The Least You Need To Know. Co-editor of Passing The Word: Writers On Their Mentors. Essays and short stories in Harper's, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Story, DoubleTake, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train. Winner of the 2006 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the Nancy Dasher Award, the Glenna Luschei Prize for Literary Distinction, the Lawrence Foundation Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Ohio Arts Council.

Books by Lee Martin

(Professor) M.F.A., Indiana University. Creative writing, fiction; American literature. Author of The Good Life (2004), The Baby Tree (2002), Lies of the Saints (1996), Bodies at Sea (1989). Author of short stories, personal essays, and essay-reviews on contemporary fiction. Stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. Personal essays in The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Image, and other magazines. Fiction reviewer for the Raleigh News & Observer and The Southern Review. Work in progress: The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, a novel set in 1924 Hollywood, to be published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2008; Hangings & Acquittals: Judgments in Contemporary Fiction, a collection of essays about fiction and narrative; and Bad Eyes, a collection of personal essays.

Books by Erin McGraw