Creative Writing Alumni
Our alumni, graduate and undergraduate, have published more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction. In the past few years, their creative work has graced the pages of major literary venues like The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. Distinguished graduates include:
Dale Bailey, pictured at right, has published two novels, The Fallen (Signet) and House of Bones (Signet) and a collection of short fiction, The Resurrection Man's Legacy & Other Stories (Golden Gryphon). He teaches writing and literature at Lenoir-Rhyne College.
- Lisa Coffman is the author of Likely: Poems, winner of the Wick Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Drunken Boat, and The Cincinnati Review.
Juliana Gray is the author of a collection of poetry called The Man Under My Skin (River City Press, 2005) and of the chapbook History in Bones (Kent State University Press, 2001. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Yalobusha Review, Sundog, Poetry East, The Formalist, The Louisville Review, Stories From the Blue Moon Café Volume III, and The Alumni Grill 2. She teaches at Auburn University and in the Sewanee Young Writer’s Workshop.
- Karen Head is the author of the poetry collections, Sassing (WordTech Editions, 2009), My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009) which won the 2008 Editor’s Choice Award for Excellence in Poetry and Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems (All Nations Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in places like The Southeast Review and New Millennium Writings. She teaches at Georgia Tech University.
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Khaled Mattawa is the author of three books of poetry, Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). He has translated seven books of contemporary Arabic poetry by Saadi Youssef, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Hatif Janabi, Maram Al-Massri, Joumana Haddad, and Iman Mersal; and he has co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. Mattawa has been awarded the PEN award for literary translation, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alfred Hodder fellowship from Princeton University, an NEA translation grant, and 3 Pushcart prizes. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan.
- Melissa Range is the recipient of a 2007 "Discovery"/The Nation Award and a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She is a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Image, The Paris Review, and Poetry London (UK).
- Brad Vice’s short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, was the Winner of the 2005 Flannery O’Connor Prize for Fiction and reprinted by River City Press in 2007. His stories have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South and Best New American Voices. Vice has also published articles and interviews in publications such as Writers' Digest, The Novel and Short Story Writers' Market, and The Guide to Literary Agents. His fiction reviews have been published in a number of magazines and newspapers.
- M.O. Walsh is the Winner of the 2009 Tartt Fiction Award. The Prospect of Magic, his collection of linked stories, will be published in 2010 by Livingston Press. His fiction has appeared in places like Best New American Voices, Epoch and Oxford American.