Creative Writing, MFA

Joseph Bates

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006

Co-Editor of the Miami University Press
Associate Professor of English

Margaret Luongo

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2001

Associate Professor of English

Eric Melbye

PhD, Creative Writing, University of Denver, 2001

Associate Professor of English (Middletown Campus)

Areas: Community-Based Learning, Creative Writing, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Exile Studies

Tim Melley

PhD, English and American Literature, Cornell, 1995

Professor of English and Affiliate of American Studies, Director of the Miami University Humanities Center

Areas: U.S. Literary and Cultural History Since 1950, Cold War Studies, Postmodernism, Fiction Writing

TaraShea Nesbit

PhD, University of Denver, 2015
Associate Professor of English

Areas: 20th and 21st Century Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, Lyric Essays, Multi-Genre Texts, Creative Writing Pedagogy.

Brian Roley 

JD, University of California, Los Angeles and MFA, Creative Writing, Cornell University, 1998

Professor of English and Affiliate of Global and Intercultural Studies, Director of Creative Writing

Areas: Creative Writing; Film, Theatre and Literature Adaptations; Disability / Medical Narratives; Contemporary and Twentieth Century Literature; Asian American Literature; Literature and the Law

Emily Spencer,

M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop
B.A., The Ohio State University

Areas: Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry

Keith Tuma

PhD, University of Chicago, 1987

Assistant Professor of English and Co-Editor of the Miami University Press

Areas: Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, American, and Anglophone Literature, Creative and Performance Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Anecdotes and Ephemera, Travel Writing

Cathy Wagner

PhD, University of Utah, 2000
Professor of English

Areas: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Contemporary and Modern American Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary and Modern British Poetry and Poetics, Poetry and Politics

Kayla Belser

• B.A. Creative Writing, Northern Kentucky University

Chris Bowyer

• M.A. Philosophy, Miami University
• B.A. Philosophy, Miami University

Jordyn Damato

• B.A., Broadcasting & Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan University
• M.A., Creative Writing, Central Michigan University

Creative and Research Interests: I love taking risks in my work by pushing the bounds of form and telling a story as unconventional as possible. I’m also interested in the adaptation process of paper to screen as an avid filmmaker.

Ana Eliza de Melo Garcia

• B.Ed., Portuguese and English, Sao Paulo State University

Creative and Research Interests:  Adaptation (books into movies/series), screenwriting, fiction, gothic literature, humor and drama (dramedy), adult literature.

Cordero Estremera 

Joshua Konecke

• M.A., Kansas State University
• B.A., University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Molly Moran

• M.A., Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University
• B.A., English Language and Literature, The Catholic University of America

Creative and Research Interests: Historical fiction, women's literature, speculative biography

Tanushree Mukherjee

• M.A., Journalism and Media Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Creative and Research Interests: Reading fiction, hope to complete a long-form fiction project

Mary Newton

• M.A., English/Literature, San Francisco State University
• B.A., English/Creative Writing, UCLA

Anna Richard

• BFA, Visual Communication Design, Kent State University

Creative and Research Interests: Narration, diagetic distance, hauntings, the spectacular mundane, queer perspectives, dread, cults, flash fiction, art history, semiotics, the American Midwest, typography

Emma Rowan

• B.A. English, Stony Brook University

Creative and Research Interests: CNF, micro/flash CNF, hybrid works, prose poetry, identity, environmentalism, LGBTQ narratives, humor, and womanhood as something restrictive yet malleable

Sammie Stahlhut

• B.S., English Language Arts Education, University of Central Florida

Creative and Research Interests: novels, essays, Southern literature, Florida literature, LGBTQ+ issues, environmentalism, ordinary perspectives, absurdism, humor

Ria Adams

James Foss

Dominik Gebell

•  MFA Creative Writing (Poetry)

Creative and Research Interests:  Surrealism, Magical Realism, and The Supernatural. Meta Physics under the paradigm of Jungian Unconscious/Collective Unconscious; The Philosophy of Language, Dreams, and The Human Soul in Relationship to Itself and the World Around it.

Ross Kohler

• B.A., Miami University

Roma Markle

• B.A. English and Creative Writing, Northern Kentucky University

Creative and Research Interests: As a writer, I really enjoy experimental and hybrid work, but I also have a love for flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, and all forms of poetry. I like to keep my options open and feel free to write whatever I want. As a reader, I like poetry, flash fiction, and anything genre-bending.

Maddie Portune

• M.A., English Literature, Indiana University
• B.S.B, Marketing & International Studies, IUPUI

Creative and Research interests: Poetry, Old English literature (esp. charms), etymology & history of language, modern adaptations of mythology & religion, bisexuality in popular media & literature, feminist theory, queer theory, pedagogical approaches to writing & literature

Danton Remoto

• M.Phil., Publishing Studies, University of Stirling UK; 
• B.A./M.A .Literature, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Creative and Research interests: Postcolonial Poetry, Lyrical Poetry, Creative Writing Pedagogy

Candace Renicks 

• B.F.A., Creative Writing, Southeastern University

Creative and Research Interests: British Romantic Poets, sonnets, the use of blank space in poetry

Hossein Sobhani

• M.A., University of Southern Denmark
• B.A., Persian Gulf University

Creative Interests: Narrative and the way in which our lives and identities are intertwined with narrative

Cody Tieman

• B.A., English, Denison University

CC Webb

• B.A., History and English, University of Georgia, (2021)

Creative and Research Interests: Practicing a process of writing they call "post-it poetry," CC primarily works by combining perse pieces of phrase, description, and word-form to create a cohesive poetic communication (with, of course, plenty of line breaks). They are particularly interested in William Blake's work, collage art, whether written, visual, or hybrid, political and protest poetry, sporadic world language-learning, and, through poetry, turning the mundane into something strange and explosive.

Kyle Williams

• B.A., University of West Indies

Reynie Zimmerman

• B.A., Miami University

Creative and Research Interests: poetry that includes visual elements