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Jack Myers, Poetry Writing. Professor. M.F.A. University of Iowa. 2003 Texas Poet Laureate. Poetry volumes: The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems; OneOnOne; Blindsided; As Long as You're Happy; I'm Amazed That You're Still Singing; The Family War; Black Sun Abraxas. Texts and anthologies: The Poet’s Portable Workshop; New American Poets of the 90s; New American Poets of the 80s; Profile of American Poetry in the 20th Century; Leaning House Poets, Vol. 1; The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms; A Trout in the Milk: A Composite Portrait of Richard Hugo.

David Haynes, Fiction Writing. Associate Professor.  B.A. Macalester College; M.A. Hamline University. Director of Creative Writing 2007-2008. Novels: The Full Matilda; Somebody Else's Mama,  Heathens, Right By My Side, Live at Five, All American Dream Dolls, Anthologies Ed. with J Landsman, Welcome to Your Life: Writings for the Heart of Young America.  Children's books: The Gumma Wars, Business as Usual, Who's Responsible, Business as Usual.

Jennifer Key. Fiction and Poetry Writing. Frensley Visiting Asst. Prof. 2007-2008. Holder of the 2006-07 Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, she was educated at the University of Virginia where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Greensboro Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and other journals. She won the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading Competition for 2007.

C.W. Smith. Fiction Writing. 2006 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor. M.A. Northern Illinois University; Novels: Thin Men of Haddam, Country Music, The Vestal Virgin Room, Buffalo Nickel, Hunter's Trap, Understanding Women, Gabriel's Eye. Short story collection, Letters From the Horse Latitudes . Memoir: Uncle Dad.

Tom Stone, Fiction  Writing. .D.F.A. University of Denver. Senior Lecturer.

   
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