Honored to be named one of "Five Up-and-Coming Programs" by The Atlantic Monthly.
Programs and Areas
Creative Writing
2009 Young Writers Workshop Faculty
Sonya Huber, an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University, received her master's degree in public interest journalism from The Ohio State University in 2000, and her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2004. Her first book,
Opa Nobody, (University of Nebraska Press) is a mixed-genre exploration of activism and German family history. Her second book of creative nonfiction,
Cover Me, A Health Insurance Memoir, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press, and her textbook
The Backwards Research Guide is forthcoming in 2009 from Equinox Books. Her work has appeared in literary journals including
Fourth Genre,
Topic,
Passages North,
Main Street Rag,
Literary Mama,
Kaleidoscope,
Hotel Amerika and
Sub-lit and others; she also teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program at Ashland University.
Lee Martin is the author of the novels,
The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction;
River of Heaven; and
Quakertown. He has also published two memoirs, From
Our House and
Turning Bones; and a short story collection,
The Least You Need To Know. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as
Harper's,
Ms.,
Creative Nonfiction,
The Georgia Review,
Story,
DoubleTake,
The Kenyon Review,
Fourth Genre,
River Teeth,
The Southern Review, and
Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, as well as the 2006 Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Since 2001, he has taught in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University where he is now Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing.
Pablo Tanguay earned his B.A. from Middle Tennessee State University and his MFA from The Ohio State University. His poems have appeared in
FIELD,
Poems and Plays,
The Laurel Review, as well as many other journals, and, in 2008, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is a book reviewer for the
Nashville Scene, and a contributing editor at
The Journal.
