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2024 Tyler Smith (ABD), Instructor, University of Tennessee
2024 Hannah Feustle, Lecturer, University of Michigan
2024 David Greenspan, Lecturer, University of Michigan
2024 Katrina Gaffney, Instructor, University of Illinois
2023 Jennifer Peterson, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, University of 51¶ºÄÌ Mississippi
2023 Elizabeth Trueblood, Assistant Professor, The University of Olivet
2023 Jamie Logan Benner, Production Associate, Acadian House Publishing
2023 John Tobin, Lecturer, University of Maryland
2023 Matthew Moniz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mississippi University of Women
2023 Allen Thomas, Assistant Professor of English, Santa Fe College
2023 Gerard Duncan Jr., Visiting Lecturer, McNeese State University
2022 Corinne Dekkers, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, University of 51¶ºÄÌ Mississippi
2022 Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal, Assistant Professor, Gannon University
2022 Apoorva Mittal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Ohio University
2022 Mary Leauna Christensen, Instructor, University of Tennessee
2022 Dylan Loring, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
2021 Allyson Hoffman, Instructor, University of Arizona
2021 Rachael Fowler, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of 51¶ºÄÌ Mississippi
2021 Joseph Labernik, Grants Officer, Boston Medical Center
2021 Corley Longmire, Editorial Aide, University Press of Mississippi
2021 Kevin Thomason, Assistant Professor, McNeese State University
2021 Karla Keffer, Teaching Fellow at BASIS.Ed Primary School
2020 Bryana Fern, Assistant Professor of English, Cedarville University
2020 Garrett Ashley, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, Tuskegee University
2019 John Duncan, Composition Instructor, Kentucky Community and Technology College System
2019 Jessica Guzman, Assistant Professor of Poetry, Widener University
2019 Jay Glassie, English professor, Bard High School Early College, Washington DC
2019 Chad Foret, Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University
2018 Monic Ductan, Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University
2018 Todd Gray, English professor, The Delta School, Wilson, Arkansas
2018 Andrew Gretes, Adjunct Lecturer, American University, Washington DC
2018 Anastasia Stelse, Lecturer, University of Madison, Wisconsin
2017 Tanya Mason Smith, Instructor, Pensacola State University
2017 Hannah Dow, Assistant Professor, Southwest Missouri State University
2017 Joseph Holt, Assistant Professor of Fiction, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2017 Sara Lewis, Assistant Editor, Oxford American Magazine
2016 Christina Rothenbeck, Instructor of English, Louisiana State University
2016 Susan Elliot, Marketing Manager in New Capital Partners, Birmingham, Alabama
2016 Jen Brewington, Assistant Professor of Practice in Composition, USM
2016 Tom Holmes, Assistant Professor, Nashville State Community College
2015 Allison Campbell, Chair of Creative Writing, Lusher School, New Orleans, LA
2015 Louis DiLeo, Assistant Professor, English, Florida 51¶ºÄÌ College
2015 Ellis Purdie, Assistant Professor, East Texas Baptist University
2015 Andrea Spofford, Assistant Professor of Poetry, Austin Peay State University
2015 Pankaj Challa, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global University, Haryana, India
2014 Eddie Malone, Lecturer, University of Oklahoma
2014 Chris Brunt, Assistant Professor, English, Rhodes College
2014 Fae Dremock, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, Ithaca College
2014 Randy Gonzales, Associate Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2014 Kent Quaney, Assistant Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery
2013 Josh Johnson, Instructor, Chattanooga State
2012 Claudia Smith Chen, Lecturer, University of Houston-Downtown
2012 Courtney Watson, Associate Professor of English at Radford University Carilion, Roanoke VA
2010, Scott Fynboe, Associate Professor, Indian River State College
2009 Travis Kurowski, Assistant Professor of English, York College
2008 Alan Rossi, Creative Writing Department Chair and Fiction Instructor, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
2008 Sam Ruddick, Instructor, Auburn University
2007 Erin Elizabeth Smith, Senior Lecturer, English, University of Tennessee
2002 Michael Farris Smith, Associate Professor, English, Mississippi University for Women
2002 Kim Chinquee, Associate Professor, Co-Director, Writing Program, SUNY-Buffalo State, Senior Editor of New World Writing, Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)
1999 Cynthia Hardy, Emerita Professor of Developmental Education, U. Alaska, Fairbanks
Books and Awards
Michael Farris Smith, Blackwood (Little, Brown, 2020), The Fighter (Little, Brown, 2018) Desperation Road (Little, Brown, 2017); Rivers (Simon & Schuster, 2013); The Hands of Strangers (Main Street Rag Press, 2011). Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, 51¶ºÄÌ Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next List, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has been a finalist for the 51¶ºÄÌ Book Prize, the Gold Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix des Lectrices in France, and his essays have appeared with The New York Times, Bitter 51¶ºÄÌer, Writer’s Bone, and more. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.
Michael Knight, Eveningland (Atlantic Monthly, 2017); The Typist (Atlantic Monthly, 2010); The Holiday Season (Grove, 2007); Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly, 2003); Divining Rod (Dutton, 1988); Dogfight & Others Stories (Plume, 1998). Knight’s novel, The Typist was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Huffington Post and appeared on Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford American, Paris Review and The 51¶ºÄÌ Review and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories (2004) and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (1999, 2003, 2004, and 2009).
Mary Miller, Biloxi (Liveright, 2019); Always Happy Hour (Liveright, 2017); The Last Days of California (Liveright, 2014); Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive, 2009). Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, Norton's Seagull Book of Stories, The Best of McSweeney’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, and many others. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss.
T. R. Hummer is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently Eon (LSU Press, 2018) and After the Afterlife (Acre Books, 2018). He served as Editor-in-Chief for The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and The Georgia Review. He has also received numerous awards, including a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in poetry and the Donald Justice Award for Poetry.
Kim Chinquee, Wetsuit (2019); Shot Girls (2018); Veer (2017); Oh Baby (2008), all with Ravenna Press. Chinquee is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize.
Jessica Guzman, Adelante (Switchback Books, 2020), winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize for a book of poems.
Allison Campbell, Encyclopédie of the Common and Encompassing (Kore Press, 2016)
Kent Quaney, A Breath Away from Drowning (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Andrea Spofford, The Pine Effect (Red Paint Hill Press, 2018); Frost and Thaw, chapbook (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2018)
Annette Boehm, The Apidictor Tapes (New Rivers Press, 2021); The Knowledge Weapon (Bare Fiction, July 2016; E D Liberations, chapbook (Dancing Girl Press, 2019); The Five Parts of Love – Confabulating Sappho (Dancing Girl Press, 2012)
Steve Bellin-Oka, Instructions for Seeing a Ghost (University of North Texas Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Vassar Miller Prize for a book of poems. Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station, chapbook (Seven Kitchens Press, 2017), Out of the Frame, chapbook (Walls Divide Press, 2019)
Micah Dean Hicks, Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones (published by John Joseph Adams Book in 2019) and a 2019 NEA recipient for creative writing.
