J.R. Allen

MA, Central Michigan University
BA, Central Michigan University
hollenjr@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: fiction writing, hybrid genres, fragmented narratives, city literature, genre fiction, horror narratives, contemporary Marxism, semiotics, and pop culture rhetorics.

Dalanie Beach

BA, Saint Mary's College
beachdn@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: fiction writing and creative writing; multimodal and cross-disciplinary texts; and studying the relationship between the personal lives of writers and their work. 

Vincent Barraco

BFA, Bowling Green State University 
barracvj@miamioh.edu

Creative interests: Transgressive, speculative, and weird fiction; Japanese literature, including ero-guro-nansensu and post-war fiction; and processing trauma through dark fiction and kink. 

Abigail Denton

BA, Princeton University

Creative interests: Fantasy, magic, mental health/illness (esp. depression, anxiety, and OCD), dreams, surrealism, folklore, emotion, gender.

Kara Gall

BA, Nebraska Wesleyan University 

MA, San Francisco State University

Creative interests: fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genres, personal essays, memoir, magical realism, flash and micro, rural America, the body, adoption, spirituality.

Kate Isaacs

BA, The Ohio State University

Maddy LaTurner

BA, University of Utah

Creative interests: experimental form; narrative control; cross-genre writing; queer literature; magical realism; speculative fiction.

Daniel Massett

BA, Le Moyne College
massetd@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: postmodernism, surrealism, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, American gothic, the Western.

Harrison Mmerenu

BA, University of Ibadan
MA, University of Lagos
mmerenhc@miamioh.edu

Creative and Research Interests: memoirs, personal essays, experimental writing, photography, African-American literature, American literature, Third-World literature, creative nonfiction, classical literature, post-colonial theory.

Lloyd Mullins

BA, Indiana University East
mullinlb@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: novels, Russian Decembrist Revolution, 19th Century Buryat Mongol life/culture, American Civil War in the West, Indian wars, esp. Sand Creek Massacre and Nez Perce War, Johnson County War

Kelsey Timmerman

BA, Miami University
timmerkw@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: globalization, agriculture, oral histories, and how writing can be used to build community

Sofia Voet

BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
voetsc@MiamiOH.edu 

Isabella Gross 

BA, Central Michigan University  

Creative interests: magical realism, persona poems, surreal poetry, conversation/collaboration between poets, world language poetry and forms, translingual poetry

Jordan Green

BA, MA, University of Louisiana, Monroe

Hanna Litwinowicz

BA, SUNY Purchase College
litwinh@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: surreal poetry, persona poetry, and the intersection of the human and natural world

Diego Nguyen

BS, Trinity University
nguye148@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: interlinks between myth and history with the modern, poetics of violence and persona poetry

Chiamaka Onu-Okpara

B.Sc, Covenant University
onuokpcv@miamioh.edu

Creative and Research Interests: palindrome poetry, black lives, magic realism, feminism, war, and experimental storytelling

Sean Pierson

B.A. (Mod.) in English Literature and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin

Creative interests: Contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th-/21st-century British and Irish poetry, poetry of the African diaspora, small press and little magazine operations, book arts, and the long poem

Vanessa West

BA, Michigan State University
westz@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: relationships, intimacy, and nuance

Luke Durling

BA,Siena Heights University
durlinlh@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: poetry, pop culture, animation, integration of pop culture into poetry, normalization and recognition of fan-based writings and pop culture inspired pieces, free verse, confessional poetry, parody, poetry regarding disabled and/on underprivileged perspectives.

Kim Grier

BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
grierkc2@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: literary fiction, exploring dysfunctional family relationships, creative nonfiction, science, medicine, and hospice, and anything associated with the way society relates to death.  

David Scherer

BA, The Ohio State University
scheredm@MiamiOH.edu

Creative and Research Interests: writing novels and screenplays that tell the journey of complicated, human characters typically in science fiction and adult high fantasy. Exploring the possibilities of interactive storytelling using video games, where the player is the protagonist.