Creative Writing

Our Faculty

Elizabeth Arnold
Associate Professor
Maud Casey
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Creative Writing
Michael Collier
Professor
Lee Konstantinou
Assistant Professor
Emily Mitchell
Assistant Professor
Howard Norman
Professor
Stanley Plumly
Professor
Director, Creative Writing
Joshua Weiner
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Program in Creative Writing

Faculty Bookshelf

Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
Orphan Hours
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
Author, What is Left the Daughter
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
Book Image Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold
Effacement
Flood Editions, 2010
Book Image Associate Professor Joshua Weiner
Editor, At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn
University of Chicago Press, 2009
Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
W. W. Norton, 2008
Book Image Professor Michael Collier
Make Us Wave Back
University of Michigan Press, 2007
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
The Haunting of L.
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2007
Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
Old Heart
W. W. Norton, 2007
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
Devotion
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Book Image Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold
Civilization
Flood Editions, 2006
Book Image Associate Professor Joshua Weiner
From the Book of Giants
2006
Book Image Associate Professor Maud Casey
Genealogy
HarperCollins, 2006
Book Image Professor Michael Collier
Dark Wild Realm
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
In Fond Remembrance of Me
Picador, 2006
Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
Argument & Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry
Handsel, 2003
Book Image Associate Professor Maud Casey
Drastic
William Morrow, 2002
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
The Chauffeur
Picador, 2002
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
The Northern Lights
Picador, 2001
Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000
Ecco, 2001
Book Image Associate Professor Joshua Weiner
The World's Room
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Book Image Associate Professor Maud Casey
The Shape of Things to Come
William Morrow, 2001
Book Image Professor Michael Collier
The Ledge
Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Book Image Professor Howard Norman
The Museum Guard
Picador, 2000
Book Image Associate Professor Elizabeth Arnold
The Reef
University of Chicago Press, 1999
Book Image Professor Stanley Plumly
The Marriage in the Trees
Ecco, 1998
Book Image Professor Michael Collier
The Neighbor
University of Chicago Press, 1995

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall

Friday, September 27, 2013

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall

Thursday, March 27, 2014

TBD

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall

News

May 23, 2013
Congratulations to Professor Marilee Lindemann, who has been awarded the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award for 2013.
May 22, 2013
Jamie Lee's remarks concerning the value of her English major are here:
May 22, 2013
It is with great pleasure that the Department of English announces the following tenure and promotion news.
May 17, 2013
The English Department is delighted to announce the following placements of recent PhDs in 2013.
May 15, 2013
Congratulations to Christina Walter and Vessela Valiavitcharska, winners of this year's GEO Faculty Awards.
May 9, 2013
It is with great pleasure that the Department announces the recipients of the various graduate fellowships and awards for the next academic year.
May 8, 2013
The MFA Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize.
May 8, 2013
Congratulations to Amanda Bailey on the publication of her new book, Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England.
May 7, 2013
An informal reception hosted by Provost Rankin and and Vice President O'Shea was held May 1 to celebrate the scholarly research accomplishments of faculty over the past year. An impressive list of faculty from the Department of English were among those recognized.
May 3, 2013
The Program in Comparative Literature is pleased to recognize Martin as the winner of the second annual John Fuegi Essay Contest.