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Kevin Adler (PhD/Fiction)
Ashley Akenson (MFA/Poetry)
Amanda Arnold (MFA/Poetry)
Sara Bartlett (MFA/Poetry) Laura Beasley (MFA/Poetry)
Before beginning work as an MFA fiction candidate, Brett Bender worked as an archivist, bibliographer, and high school teacher. As an undergraduate he attended the University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, and Georgia State University. In 2007, he won the Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. He lives in the Home Park neighborhood of midtown Atlanta.
Laura Black (MFA/Poetry)
Kristen Blanco (MFA/Fiction)
Elizabeth Blount (MFA/Poetry)
Melissa Bower (PhD/Fiction)
Amber Nicole Brooks (MFA/Fiction) lives and writes in Decatur, Georgia. Her fiction has appeared in Stacatto Magazine and gsu review, and she was awarded third place in the 2007 Playboy College Fiction Contest.
Jody
Brooks (MFA/Fiction)
Christopher Bundy (PhD/Fiction) returned to the United States after five years of living in and traveling through Asia. He received an MFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Terminus Magazine, The Sunday Reader, The Beacon Street Review, Creative Loafing, and Japanophile, and in the anthology Where Love is Found. He was a 2002 finalist in the AWP Thomas Dunne Novel competition, and First Runner-up in the 2005 Writers Exchange Contest for Fiction, sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Jennie, and his daughter Harper Lily.
Matthew Byers (PhD/Poetry)
Judith
Carson (MFA/Poetry)
Laura Carter (PhD/Poetry)
Dawn
Cloud (MFA/Fiction)
Bradley Denton (PhD/Poetry)
Travis Denton (MFA/Poetry)
A native New
Yorker, Mike Dockins (PhD/Poetry) received a B.S. in 1999
from SUNY Brockport, and an MFA in 2002 from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review,
Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, West Branch, Gulf
Coast, Willow Springs, and elsewhere, and they have also been
featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. His first book of poems, Slouching in the Path of a Comet,
was recently published by Sage Hill Press, and a poem from the collection will appear in Best American Poetry 2007. Mike is currently
poetry editor for Terminus magazine (www.terminusmagazine.com)
and a co-founding editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics
(www.redactions.com). Mike moonlights as a singer-songwriter;
his acoustic band CLOP released its fourth album of original tunes
in June 2005.
Julie Douglas (MFA/Fiction) Kara Eidsvik (MFA/Fiction)
Kathleen Fesuk (PhD/Poetry) Marc Fitten (PhD/Fiction)
Kerin
Flatley (PhD/Fiction) is originally from Massachusetts. She received her bachelors degree from Fairfield University in Connecticut and her masters degree from Boston University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing. In between, she edited for various technology publications and spent a summer working as an assistant to Maya Angelou. Since moving to Atlanta she has been awarded an Agnes Scott College Writer's Award in Fiction and First Place in Creative Loafing's 2005 Fiction Contest.
Jeanne
Finelli (MA/Fiction)
Peter
Fontaine (PhD/Fiction) is a Master of the Arts in English
Literature from UNLV who has recently turned his ambitions toward
becoming a professional liar. A native of California and a former
resident of Las Vegas, he recently made Atlanta his home to pursue
his PhD in Creative Writing. His work has been published in Rainbow
Curve and Vagus Nerve. He lives with his fiancee
Cara and her cat Bella.
Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction)
Corey
Green (MFA/Poetry): Although I was born and raised in
Bee Branch, Arkansas, an unbelievably small town, I now live in
Atlanta, Georgia, where I am studying for my M.F.A. My most
formative experiences are not only living in England and China,
but also my four factory jobs and my rather lengthy stint in a
feed mill. My poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and
appeared in canwehaveourballback?, Diner, Poetry
Motel, RedActions, Segue, storySouth,
and many others.
Jessica Hand (MFA/Poetry)
Benjamin Hanna (MFA/Fiction)
Shelley Helms-Fleishman (MFA/Poetry)
Bret Hewit (MA/Fiction)
Katherine
Hyon (PhD/Fiction)
James Iredell's (PhD/Fiction) fiction has appeared
in the Chattahoochee Review (Summer 2006), and his poem
"The World of O" appears in the anthology
We Are What We Watch: Poets Respond to Movies, Television,
and Media (Syracuse UP, 2006). Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction)
Robert Ivey (MA/Poetry)
Robin Kemp (PhD/Poetry) holds a BA from GSU
and a MFA from the University of New Orleans. She had the Letter
of the Month in the March 2006 issue of Poetry, her entries
on Atlanta poet Turner Cassity and on New Formalism appear in
the new Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry,
and she has entries on Kate Chopin and William Stafford in the
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004). Her
poem "Pantoum for Ari Fleischer" appeared in Texas
Poetry Journal, where her interview with R.S. Gwynn will
appear next year. She is coediting an anthology of post-Katrina
poetry by New Orleans poets, and has work forthcoming in two other
anthologies. Robin owns the Formalista listserv, which brings
together experts on versification, translators, and women poets
writing in or curious about form and meter.
Katherine
Kincer (MFA/Poetry)
Charlotte
Kuehn (MFA/Fiction)
Liane LeMaster (MFA/Fiction) was born in West Virginia
and grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Northwestern
University with a degree in theater and spent ten years producing
plays and managing a theater company in Chicago. She has been
published in the Mississippi Review, the Chattahoochee
Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Jessica Lindberg (MFA/Poetry) grew up in Decatur. She
earned her BA in Spanish from Earlham College, a small Quaker
school in Indiana. She and her husband fled to the northwest corner
of Georgia when Decatur got too big for its britches. She now
lives in Rome with her husband and two sons.
Monica Magnan (MA/Poetry) James Davis May (PhD/Poetry) James Miller (PhD/Poetry)
Sam Miller (MA/Fiction) grew up in the southeast (Georgia,
South Carolina, Alabama) and graduated from the University of
Texas (Austin) in 2000. After some time in Dallas, Baltimore and
New York, he returned to Georgia and entered the New South's Writing
Workshop. His fiction has recently appeared in McSweeny's
and AGNI.
Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) Candace Nadon (PhD/Fiction)
Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction) was raised in Manchester,
NH and Rochester, NY. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2000, then
sought adventure in the Czech Republic, England, and Costa Rica.
Before coming to GSU, he taught for four years in Delta
College, and innovative interdisciplinary program at the State
University of New York at Brockport. He has published stories
in The Ontario Review, Chelsea, Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine, Traffic East and The Pedestal
Magazine. Joyce Carol Oates nominated him for a Pushcart
Prize in ’05. His first novel, Pyres, was
released by St. Martin’s Minotaur in October 2007.
Robert Renn Pfeiffer (MFA/Poetry)
Beth Powell (MFA/Fiction) is an Atlanta almost-native,
and has easily amassed the most in-Atlanta years of anyone, although
she’s also lived in Florida, Rhode Island, North Carolina
and Austria. She taught English after completing an MA/Lit and
was later a daily reporter and a freelance feature writer and
editor. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in publications
including The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Atlanta Magazine
and Southpoint, and in the collection True South.
By day, she designs and develops web-based training. She and her
husband have a son and daughter who’re in school on the West
Coast. You can access her web site at: www.bethpowell.net.
Calaya Michelle Reid (PhD/Fiction) is a native of Westbury,
NY. She's a graduate of New York University and the University
of Georgia (BA, MA). Her first novel (written as Grace Octavia) is Take Her Man (Kensington Books, 2007). She lives in Atlanta and has a second Grave Octavia novel forthcoming
from Kensington Books.
Shannon Rentner (MFA/Fiction)
Michele Rozga (PhD/Poetry) is the winner of the 2007 Southeast Review Poetry Contest, and the 2003 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in GSU Review and the Southeast Review.
Heather Russel (PhD/Fiction)
Jenny Sadre-Orafai (MFA/Poetry) writes both poetry and
prose. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the following
publications: Wicked Alice, Poems Neiderngasse, SubtleTea,
Lily, Verse Libre Quarterly, can we have our ball back?,
Red River Review, FRiGG, Sein und Werden, and Plainsongs.
Her prose has appeared in Rock Salt Plum Review and in
the forthcoming Seal Press anthology, Waking Up American.
She has hosted numerous open mics, in addition to competing in
slams. She has also recorded a spoken word album. Sadre-Orafai
currently serves as Senior Poetry Editor for the online journal,
JMWW.
Emily Schulten (PhD/Poetry)
Caren Scott (MFA/Poetry)
Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry)
Michelle
Shamasneh (MA/Poetry)
Rochelle
Spencer (PhD/Fiction)
Cheryl
Stiles
(PhD/Poetry), a Marietta native, has published poems and essays
in Poet Lore, The Atlanta Review, Storysouth,
SLANT, Plainsongs, Red River Review,
POEM, Heliotrope, Ink Pot, and The
Healing Muse. Her work has also been included in several
anthologies including Sincerely Elvis, a collection of
original poems about Elvis Presley. She recently completed a book
of essays, On Nelson Street, and she is currently seeking
a publisher for her first book length poetry manuscript entitled
Ball Lightning. While enrolled in classes at GSU, she
also works fulltime as a reference librarian at Kennesaw State
University. William Taft (MFA/Fiction) Robert Trott (PhD/Fiction)
Lydia
Williams (PhD/Fiction) moved with her family from St.
Louis, Missouri to Scarcely, Arkansas when she was twelve. She's
lived in the South ever since, mostly as a preacher's kid, an
actress, and a nerd. Recently, she's published fiction in
The Dead Mule, The Rose and Thorn, Night Train, and JAW.
She lives with her husband in Duluth.
Samantha Winchester (MFA/Fiction)
Sarah Winterfield (MFA/Fiction)
Jennifer Yucra (MFA/Poetry)
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