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Jim Clark is Director of the MFA Writing Program. He edits The Greensboro Review, which just celebrated its fortieth anniversary. A longtime editor, he supervises graduate tutorials in publishing and editing and directs teaching internships for MFA students.
Stuart Dischell teaches poetry writing as well as modern and contemporary poetry. He is the author of four collections of poems: Evenings & Avenues, Good Hope Road, Dig Safe, and Backwards Days. He has received honors and awards from the National Poetry Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. His work appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including Good Poems, Hammer and Blaze, and Pushcart Prize.
Holly Goddard Jones is the author of Girl Trouble. Her short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Epoch, and elsewhere, and they’ve been anthologized in two volumes of New Stories from the South (2007 and 2008) and in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. She was honored with a Peter Taylor Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2006 and was the winner in 2007 of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a prize of $25,000 given to only six emerging women fiction writers each year. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at The Ohio State University, she has taught at Denison University, the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, and Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.
Terry L. Kennedy is Associate Director of the MFA Writing Program, Editor of the online journal storySouth and Associate Editor of The Greensboro Review. In addition to coordinating the visiting writers series, he teaches the undergraduate poetry workshop and a course on entrepreneurship & independent press publishing.
Craig Nova is the author of eleven novels which have been widely translated. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harper-Saxton Prize, and other awards. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire and The Paris Review and has been included in The Paris Review Anthology and The Best American Short Stories.
Michael Parker is the author of four novels—Hello Down There, a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize; Towns without Rivers; Virginia Lovers; and If You Want Me to Stay—and two collections of stories, The Geographical Cure and Don't Make Me Stop Now. His work has appeared in many magazines including Shenandoah, Oxford American, The Georgia Review, and Five Points and has been anthologized in Pushcart Prize, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and New Stories from the South. He has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
David Roderick is the author of Blue Colonial, winner of The American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize in Poetry. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and has been awarded an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. His work appears in many journals, including The Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Shenandoah, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
emeritus faculty
Lee Zacharias is the author of a novel, Lessons, and a book of short stories, Helping Muriel Make It through the Night. She has published numerous essays, short stories, and photographs and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. In addition to writing workshops in fiction and nonfiction, she teaches courses in the structure of fiction and in the contemporary novel. She is the recipient of the 2001 College, 2002 University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and 2003 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Awards for teaching excellence.
Fred Chappell is the author of a dozen books of verse, two story collections, and eight novels. A native of Canton in the mountains of western North Carolina, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for over 40 years. He is the winner of, among other awards, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, Aiken Taylor Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, and Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize seven times over. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002.
visiting writers
Each year writers and editors visit the campus for readings, workshops, and tutorials with MFA students. Recent guests include Lee K. Abbott, Doris Betts, Robert Boswell, Carrie Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Collier, Robert Creely, Lan Samantha Chang, Stephen Dobyns, John Dufresne, Paula Fox, James Galvin, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, Linda Gregerson, Terrance Hayes, Seamus Heaney, Bill Henderson, Peter Ho Davies, Garrett Hongo, Marie Howe, A. Van Jordan, Carolyn Kizer, Dorianne Laux, Thomas Lux, Gail Mazur, Peter Meinke, Joseph Millar, Antonya Nelson, Lewis Nordan, Robert Olmstead, Janet Peery, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinskey, Stanley Plumly, Padgett Powell, Donald Revell, Mark Richard, Ira Sadoff, David St. John, Joanna Scott, R.T. Smith, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, Natasha Trethewey, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Peter Turchi, Allen Wier, Robert Wrigley, and Eleanor Wilner.
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Terry Kennedy, Associate Director
MFA Writing Program
3302 HHRA Building
UNC Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
336.334.5459
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