Creative Writing, MFA

Joseph Bates

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006

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

Lizzie Hutton

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2018
MFA, University of Michigan, 1999

Assistant Professor and Director of the Howe Writing Center

Areas: Poetry, Writing studies, Writing center studies, Reading studies, The reading-writing connection, Learning transfer

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

Wren Bonham

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 

Abdullah O. Jimoh

• B.A. Linguistics, University of Ilorin

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

Mary Newton

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

Savannah Perry

Anna Richard

• BFA, Visual Communication Design, Kent State University

Creative and Research Interests: Narration, dietic 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, literary fiction, hybrid works; themes of identity, grief, memory, environmentalism, humor, and LGBTQ narratives

Sophie VonLehman 

Brooke Westgate

• B.A. in Psychology + English Language, Literature, and Writing, Central Michigan University
• M.A. English Lang & Lit: Creative Writing, Central Michigan University

Creative and Research Interests: Poetry -- specifically the intersection of natural and manufactured existence.

Ria Adams

Jenna Ballek

Will Danzi

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James Foss

• B.A., Psychology, Northern Kentucky University

Creative and Research Interests: Investigative & confessional poetry, hybrid works, prose poems, diagrams, relational narratives, narratives organized by their physical space/infrastructure, memory & perception, The Method of Loci, upheaval, identity, everyday jobs, and (when in fiction mode) horror/magical realism

Dominik Gebell

•  MFA Creative Writing (Poetry)

Creative and Research Interests:  Cartoons, 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. 

Candace Renicks 

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

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

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 diverse 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.