Creative Writing

Our Faculty

Elizabeth Arnold
Associate Professor
Acting Director, English Honors
Maud Casey
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Creative Writing
Michael Collier
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 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

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News

April 13, 2012
 Reed Whittemore passed away on Friday, April 6 at the age of 92. 
March 6, 2012
Read here to find out about Josh's big news.
September 19, 2011
The department welcomes Sarah Blake, author THE POSTMISTRESS (2010), as Petrou Writer in Residence for 2011-2012.
April 28, 2011
Check out the 2011 Academy of American Poets Prize & Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize Winners!
March 14, 2011
Norman will serve on the jury of a premier Canadian literary prize.
March 2, 2011
Olmert's new play, "Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story," appears as a rehearsed staged reading, a co-production of Theatre J and the Lincoln Theatre on Monday, March 21, 2011.
February 3, 2011
Tomorrow and Saturday, the AWP Conference will be in full swing!  And, this year, it's local.  Please check out how our wonderful Creative Writing Department will be involved.
January 11, 2011
University of Maryland’s The Art Gallery, in collaboration with the departments of English and Art, have partnered with national and international artists to create new works of visual art inspired by literature.
November 22, 2010
Djordjevic, Ellis, Kleinman, and Leverone are nominated for a major creative award.
July 7, 2010
NPR's Scott Simon discusses Norman's new novel's "Shakespearean range of war, love, an ineradicable moment of hate and loss, and lives that endure" with the author.