|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Faculty in Creative Nonfiction Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore Please see the following Stonecoast faculty who also teach creative nonfiction: Suzanne Strempek Shea (bio under fiction)
Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of three books of nonfiction: Temporary Homelands(Mercury House, 1994; Picador USA, 1996), The Edges of the Civilized World (Picador USA, 1998), which was a finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed Editions 2001, Credo Series: Notable American Writers on Nature, Community and the Writer Life). She has also published three volumes of poetry and edited Poetry of the West: A Columbia Anthology and, with Lauret E. Savoy, The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Her writing has won many awards including two NEA grants, a Pushcart Prize, awards from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the National Writer's Voice Project, and the Bayer Award in science writing from Creative Nonfiction for the essay “Poetry and Science: A View from the Divide.” She has served on the faculty of Prague Summer Seminars, Writers at Work, Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Art of the Wild, The Orion Society's Forgotten Language Tour, the Sitka Symposium on Human Values and the Written Word, and numerous other writing programs. In 1997 she was Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai'i in M?noa. She currently is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and lives near Aqua Caliente Hill in Tucson.
Richard Hoffman's memoir Half the House was awarded the Boston Athenaeum Readers' Prize in 1996 and was recently reissued by New Rivers Press. He is author of two collections of poems, Without Paradise (2002), and Gold Star Road (2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Hoffman’s prose and verse have appeared in journals including Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Louisville Review, River Teeth, Shenandoah, Marlboro Review, and Poetry, as well as in numerous anthologies. He has twice been a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in fiction and in 2004 was awarded the Charles Angoff Prize from The Literary Review for his essay Pictures of Boyhood. He is currently Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.
Barbara Hurd is the author of three books of creative nonfiction: Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming 2008), Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling through the Dark (Houghton Mifflin Company), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination (Beacon). She has also published a collection of poetry, The Singer’s Temple (Bright Hill Press). Barbara’s essays and poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Best American Essays 2001, Best American Essays 1999, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Audubon, and others. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, four Maryland Individual Artist Awards for Poetry, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, and finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and the PEN/Jerard Award. She teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
Debra Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University and the Coordinator of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment. Her books include two poetry collections—Everything’s a Verb and From Sweetness—and a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, which draws on her experiences as a road musician in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Debra continues to perform with her jazz-poetry, rhythm & blues project, The Bone People, with whom she released two CDs: Orange Parade and A Regular Dervish. Her latest book, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, A Memoir, was published by Counterpoint Books in 2006 and was awarded the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She is currently at work on a novel set in Greece, titled The Olive Harvest. more about Debra
David Mura is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, fiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Grove-Atlantic), which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year, and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (Anchor). His three books of poetry are Angels for the Burning (Boa), The Colors of Desire (Anchor, Carl Sandburg Literary Award), and, After We Lost Our Way (Carnegie Mellon), which won the 1989 National Poetry Series Contest. His book of critical essays is Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto & Mr. Moto: Poetry & Identity (U. of Michigan Press). His novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, was published in Sept. 2008 from Coffee House Press. Mura's essays on race and multiculturalism have appeared in Mother Jones and The New York Times. His plays include Secret Colors (with novelist Alexs Pate), The Winged Seed, adapted from Li-Young Lee's memoir, and After Hours (with actor Kelvin Han Yee and pianist Jon Jang). More about David
Other Stonecoast faculty who teach Creative Nonfiction include Joan Connor (bio under Fiction) and Suzanne Strempek Shea (bio under Fiction) |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
