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| A.
G. Harmon |
A.G. Harmon’s first novel, A House
All Stilled, was the 2001 winner of The Peter Taylor
Prize for the Novel. His book about Shakespeare, Eternal
Bonds, True Contracts: Law and Nature in Shakespeare’s
Problem Plays, was published in 2004, and his writings
have appeared in Triquarterly, Image,
The Arkansas Review, and other journals. A former
Milton Center Fellow, he was also a 2003 Walter E. Dakin
Fellow at The Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
After completing his Ph.D. in English at Catholic University,
he also received his law degree from the University of Tennessee.
He currently teaches at The Columbus School of Law at Catholic
University in Washington, D.C.
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| Suzanne
Marrs |
Suzanne Marrs is a renowned authority on the
work of Eudora Welty, having written four books about the
fiction writer: Eudora Welty: A Biography; One
Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty;
The Welty Collection; and Eudora Welty and
Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? Her literary essays
have appeared in numerous journals, and she served as a
consultant for the 1987 BBC documentary on Eudora Welty.
Suzanne Marrs received her Ph.D. from the University of
Oklahoma, and she is currently the Welty Foundation Scholar
in Residence at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
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| Arthur
Brown |
Arthur Brown’s poetry collection, The
Mackerel at St. Ives, is forthcoming from David Robert
Books. His poem “The Tomb of Hunting and Fishing”
was selected by William Logan as the winner of the 2005
Morton Marr Poetry Prize, and his poem “Jackson Square,
New Orleans” received the 2007 Nebraska Shakespeare
Sonnet Award. His work has appeared in Poetry,
The Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,
Measure, and other journals.
After degrees at the University of California, Berkeley,
and the University of New Mexico, Arthur Brown completed
his Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Davis.
He is currently a professor of literature and creative writing
at the University of Evansville.
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| Laura
Benedict |
Laura Benedict’s first novel, Isabella
Moon (Ballantine), has recently been published in the
U.S., Australia, and the U.K., and her second novel is forthcoming
from Ballantine in 2008. Her writings have appeared in various
anthologies, including Surreal South; Survival
Stories: Memoirs of Crisis; and The Best of West
Virginia Writers. She is a past recipient of a Greenbrier
Artists Grant and a West Virginia Arts and Humanities Fellowship.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, she
has worked extensively in public radio, and she also founded
her own copywriting and marketing firm. Her personal essays
have been regularly broadcast on WVTF Public Radio.
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| Rachel
Hadas |
Rachel Hadas is the author of numerous books
of poetry, essays, and translations. Her distinguished books
of poetry include The River of Forgetfulness; Laws;
Indelible; Halfway Down the Hall: New &
Selected Poems; and The Empty Bed. She is
a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill
Foundation Grant, and an award in literature from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
After degrees at Radcliffe College and the Johns Hopkins
University, Rachel Hadas completed her Ph.D. in comparative
literature at Princeton University. Since 1981 she has taught
in the English Department of the Newark, New Jersey, campus
of Rutgers University
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| Senior
Reading |
| Every spring the graduating writing majors
read from their poetry and prose, and afterwards, the Department
of English Writing Awards are announced. Please join
us for a delightful, and often moving, send-off to the University's
seniors. |
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