Creative Writing Faculty

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David Bottoms' poetry collections are Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, In a U-Haul North of Damascus, Under the Vulture Tree, Armored Hearts, Vagrant Grace, and Waltzing Through the Endtime. His novels are Any Cold Jordan and Easter Weekend.

Beth Gylys' books are Bodies that Hum, winner of the Gerald Cable First Book Award, and Spot in the Dark, winner of Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry.

John Holman is the author of Squabble and Other Stories and the novel Luminous Mysteries, and winner of a Whiting Writers' Award.

Sheri Joseph's cycle of stories is Bear Me Safely Over, and her novel is Stray, winner of the Grub Street Book Prize.

Josh Russell is the author of the novel Yellow Jack and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

Leon Stokesbury's poetry collections are Often in Different Landscapes, co-winner of the first Associated Writing Programs Poetry Competition, The Drifting Away, and Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Poets' Prize.