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Kyle D. Craig

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Larry D. Sweazy

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Larry D. Sweazy is a multiple-award author of twelve Western and mystery novels and over sixty nonfiction articles and short stories.  He is also a freelance indexer and has written back-of-the-book indexes for over eight hundred and fifty books in nineteen years, which served as inspiration for the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series.  Larry lives in Noblesville, Indiana with his wife, Rose, two dogs and a cat. More information can be found at www.larrydsweazy.com .

John David Anderson

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John David Anderson is the author of several award-winning and critically-acclaimed books for middle grade audiences, including Ms. Bixby’s Last Day , Sidekicked , and Posted . A former writing instructor at the University of Illinois, he currently lives with his wife and two kids in Indianapolis, where he writes full time. Or at least three-quarters time. His breakfast of choice is cold leftover pizza and a Diet Coke.

Marcia Eppich-Harris

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Bryan Furuness

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Sarah Gerkensmeyer

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Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying , was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and chosen as winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize. A finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and the Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction, Sarah’s stories and poetry have appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The New Guard, The Massachusetts Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, B O D Y, and Hobart, among others. Her story “Ramona” was featured in a Huffington Post piece on flash fiction and also selected by Lily Hoang for the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology. Sarah was a Pen Parentis Fellow and is the 2016 winner of the Indiana Authors Award in the emerging category.

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Angela Jackson-Brown

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Lydia Johnson

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Robert Kent

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Terry Kirts

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A graduate of IU’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, Kirts hails from a town in Illinois so small it didn’t have a restaurant until he was in the 8th grade. Since 2000, he’s more than made up for the dearth of eateries in his childhood, logging hundreds of meals as the dining critic for  WHERE Indianapolis ,  Indianapolis Woman , and  NUVO  before joining  Indianapolis Monthly  as a contributing editor in 2007. A senior lecturer in creative writing at IUPUI, Terry has published his poetry and creative nonfiction in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including  Gastronomica ,  Alimentum , and  Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana , and he’s the author of the poetry collection  To the Refrigerator Gods , published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2011.

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Amy Locklin

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Alessandra Lynch

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Ashley Mack-Jackson

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Ashley Mack-Jackson  is a poet, writer, teacher, and native Hoosier. She has an M.A. in English from Ball State University and an M.S. in nonprofit management from University of Maryland University College. Currently, she teaches composition and developmental reading and writing at Ivy Tech Community College, is the Co-CEO of Word As Bond, Inc. ( www.wordasbond.org ), and works with individual clients helping them develop resumes, CVs, cover letters, and professional portfolios. Her work has appeared in journals like Callaloo , Drumvoices Revue , and Reverie: Midwest African American Literature .

Saundra Mitchell

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Lylanne Musselman

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Lylanne Musselman is an award-winning poet, playwright, and visual artist. Her work has appeared in Pank, The New Verse News, Flying Island, Rose Quartz Magazine, Last Stanza Poetry Journal and The Ekphrastic Review, among others. Recently, one of her poems was selected as the featured poem in Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue # 48 Spring 2021. Musselman’s work has appeared in many anthologies, including The Indianapolis Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2021). She is the author of six chapbooks, including Paparazzi for the Birds (Red Mare 16, 2018) and is the co-author of Company of Women: New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press, 2013), and is author of the full-length poetry collection, It’s Not Love, Unfortunately (Chatter House Press, 2018). Musselman is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poems are included in the Inverse Poetry Archive, a collection of Hoosier poets, housed at the Indiana State Library. Musselman is currently working on several chapbooks and a new manuscript.

Nancy Olson

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Nancy Olson has an MA in clinical counseling and is a professional certified life coach.  For Nancy, writing has long been a tool and a process for self-discovery, for gaining understanding and compassion for others and in helping to make meaning in one’s life. Nancy uses writing in her work with individuals, in facilitating writing workshops, and for her own, on-going learning.  She has been facilitating workshops and retreats on writing, spirituality, leadership and life transitions for many years.

Bryan Owens

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Tony Perona

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Kip Robisch

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Kip Robisch is a retired English professor with seventeen teaching awards who now writes as a freelancer. He has published fiction, essays, and scholarship that includes the book Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature . He lives with his wife Elizabeth, their son Owen, and their cat Roxie.

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Natalie Solmer

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Elisabeth Speckman

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Manon Voice

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Manon Voice , is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and is a poet, spoken word artist, hip-hop emcee, educator, practicing contemplative and social justice advocate. She has performed on many diverse stages across the country in the power of word and song and has taught and facilitated art, poetry and spoken word workshops. In 2018, Manon Voice was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Manon Voice seeks to use her art and activism to create a communal space where dialogue, transformation, discovery and inspiration can occur.

Shari Wagner

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Shari Wagner is Indiana Poet Laureate for 2016 and 2017.  She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and has taught writing in universities, grade schools and retirement homes. She is the author of two books of poems: The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana

Dominique Weldon

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Liz Whiteacre

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Allison Whittenberg

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Sheri Wilner

Sheri Wilner’s plays include Kingdom City, Relative Strangers, Bake Off, Father Joy, A Tall Order, The End, Joan of Arkansas, and Hunger and have been presented at the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Signature Theatre (DC), Williamstown Theatre Festival, the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Bucks County Playhouse, The Old Vic/New Voices, and many others. Her plays have been published in more than a dozen anthologies, which has led to over four hundred productions of her plays worldwide. Playwriting awards include a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, two Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowships, and two Heideman Awards, granted by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Also an established playwriting teacher, she has taught for the Playwrights’ Center, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Boston College, Vanderbilt University, Florida State University, PlayPenn, and the Dramatists Guild Institute, where she is also the DGI Certificate Program Advisor.

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Darolyn “Lyn” Jones

Lyn is an activist/teacher/writer/researcher. Passionate about border crossing classrooms into the community and counter narrative, Lyn is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English and with the African American Studies Minor program at Ball State University and served for 16 years as the Education Director for the Indiana Writers Center with their public Memoir Program.

Lyn is the author of Painless Reading Comprehension , co-author of  Memory Workshop  with Barb Shoup, and served as an editor for two independent presses: INwords Publications (16 years) and the 409 Press (8 years).

Lyn has edited 17 public memoir anthologies.  Lyn researches, publishes, peer reviews, and edits academically in community engagement scholarship, counter narrative, and disability studies.  Her academic work has been featured in the  Journal of Organizational Ethnography ,  Journal of Teaching Writing ,  Peer Meridian Review ,  Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability ,   Journal of Transformative Education,  and  Learning for Justice .

Lyn writes and publishes creative narrative nonfiction about mothering a child with a disability and about #blacklivesmatter.   Her published essays include "Casper" Facing Autism Project, "Sitting at the Feet of my Flanner House Elders: A Lesson After Dying" in  IndyWrites Books,  “In Indy, #blackyouthmatter!”,  The Indianapolis Anthology , "Dear Guilt" in  Speak your Story , and "Gather or Scatter: Girlfriending a Special Needs Mom" in  Monday Coffee .

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Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing

The Department of English offers a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. This degree is part of a three-year program. One tangible outcome is the writing of a thesis—you focus on creating a book-length manuscript.

This degree requires a minimum of 60 credit hours, including 16 hours of writing workshops in the genre of your choice. You select from the writing courses ENG-W611-W612 Writing Fiction, or ENG-W613-W614 Writing Poetry.

The coursework also requires at least 16 hours from among the department's literature and language courses, with at least eight hours at the 600 level or above.

You take either ENG-W664 Topics in Current Literature: the study of recent poetry and prose or ENG-W680 Theory and Craft of Writing: the study of elements of poetic prosody and/or the major fictive techniques.

Those teaching in W103 Introductory Creative Writing are required to take W554 in their first semester of teaching. This is a practicum on the theory and practice of teaching the writing of poetry and fiction at the college level, with attention to matters of curricular design and classroom technique.

A thesis in the form of a book-length manuscript is required. You can take up to 12 credit hours in W699 to work on your thesis. There is no final examination.

The remaining credit hours are elective. At least 48 hours of the degree requirements must be completed in residence.

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The M.F.A. in Creative Writing requires two full years (including summers), and students who have Creative Writing Associate Instructorships generally take three years.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu (Fiction Workshop)

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Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK (2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE (2016). His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions , The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA ,  Tin House , Iowa Review,  Lightspeed Magazine , and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories , and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He is originally from O’ahu, Hawaiʻi   and the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the writer Cole Nagamatsu, their cat Kalahira, their real dog Fenris, and a Sony Aibo robot dog named Calvino. He is at work on two other novels.

torrin a. greathouse (Poetry Class)

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torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. Their work has been featured in Poetry Magazine , The Rumpus , the New York Times Magazine , Ploughshares , and The Kenyon Review . She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her debut poetry collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Angela Jackson-Brown (Fiction Class)

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Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is an Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing  at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the  Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing  at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like  The Louisville Journal  and the  Appalachian Review . She is the author of  Drinking From a Bitter Cup ,  House Repairs ,  When Stars Rain Down  and  The Light Always Breaks . Her novels have received starred reviews from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed,  Parade Magazine , and  Women’s Weekly , just to name a few.  When Stars Rain Down  was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. In October of 2023, Angela’s next novel,  Homeward,  a follow-up to  When Stars Rain Down , will be published by Harper Muse.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (Nonfiction Class)

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of  THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir , which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Named one of the best books of the year by  Entertainment Weekly , Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot,  The Times of London ,  The Guardian ,  Paris Match ,  Lire ,  Telerama,  and  The Sydney Press   Herald , it has been translated into eleven languages and is in development with HBO. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Maine Arts Commission, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, and the Black Mountain Institute, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich is now a 2023 United States Artists fellow. They have written for  The New York Times ,  The New York Times Sunday Magazine ,  The Boston Globe ,  Oxford American ,  Harper’s , and  The Best American Essays  editions for both 2020 and 2022. In July 2023, they will become an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Their next book,  BOTH AND NEITHER , is gender-bending and genre-bending work of memoir, history, cultural analysis, trans re-imaginings, and international road trip about life beyond the binary. It is forthcoming from Doubleday (US), Phoenix (UK), and Sonatine (France).

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Stephanie alexander, assistant professor.

Office: Root Hall A249; E-mail: [email protected]

Stephanie Alexander earned her Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Gender Studies from Louisiana State University in 2014.  She teaches a variety of courses, including British literature, literary theory, and composition.  Additionally, she is an affiliated faculty member in the Gender Studies program, where she teaches courses on gender and popular culture.  Her work has appeared in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies , New Hibernia Review , and Estudios Irlandeses. Her current research project looks at the intersection between gender and the pastoral in twentieth century and contemporary Irish poetry.

  • PhD, Louisiana State University, 2014
  • MA, Indiana State University, 2008
  • BS, Indiana State University, 2006

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Amy Ash, Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing

Office: Root Hall A215; E-Mail: [email protected]

Amy Ash directs the Indiana State University Creative Writing Program. She serves as the faculty advisor for the Creative Writing Society of ISU and for our student-run literary journal, Allusions. Ash holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas. Her teaching and research interests include creative writing studies and pedagogy, contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, collaborative writing, and hybrid genres. She is the author of The Open Mouth of the Vase, which won the 2013 Cider Press Review Book Award and the 2016 Etchings Press Whirling Prize for poetry. Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Mid-American Review, Harpur Palate, Salamander, and 100 Word Story. Dr. Ash joined the English Department faculty in 2015 as an Assistant Professor.

  • PhD, University of Kansas, 2014
  • MFA, New Mexico State University, 2006
  • BA, New Mexico State University, 2001

Patrick Barcus, Instructor

Office: Root Hall A254; E-mail: [email protected]

Patrick Barcus (MFA, Butler University) is a full-time Instructor in the Department of English, specializing in first-year Composition courses and Creative Writing. His creative writing focus is in poetry, having published poems in such journals as The Cape Rock and Grasslands Review . He has also published scholarly work in Indiana English and focuses his scholarship on the novels of Kurt Vonnegut and the elements of historical fiction.

  • MFA, Butler University, 2012
  • MA, Indiana State University 2008
  • BA, Indiana State University 2006

Laura Bates, Professor

Office: Root Hall A247; E-mail: [email protected]

Laura Bates enjoys teaching a wide range of courses, from Children's Literature to World Literature, Shakespeare, and Crime and Punishment. With a PhD (University of Chicago, 1998) in Comparative Literature, her academic training involved classic world literature alongside contemporary texts and theory. Her dissertation focused on Shakespearean reception, directed by internationally respected scholar David Bevington. She is the author of “Shakespeare Saved My Life”: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard (2013: Sourcebooks).

  • PhD, University of Chicago, 1998
  • MA, The Shakespeare Institute, 1993
  • MA, Northeastern Illinois University, 1992
  • MA, Northeastern Illinois University, 1991
  • BA, Columbia College of Chicago, 1990

Keith Byerman, Professor

Office: Root Hall A221; Telephone: 237.3208; E-mail: [email protected]

Having earned a PhD in American Studies at Purdue University, Keith Byerman joined the English Department faculty in 1987. He specializes in African American, Southern, and modern American literature. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, biographical studies of contemporary novelists Clarence Major and John Edgar Wideman.

  • PhD, Purdue University, 1978
  • MA, Indiana University, 1972
  • BA, Anderson College, 1970

Emily Capettini, Assistant Professor

​Office: Root Hall A228; Telephone: 237.3160; E-mail: [email protected]

Before joining the faculty at Indiana State University, Emily Capettini was the Literary Arts Director and Long-Term Resident for Sundress Academy for the Arts, an artist residency and arts collective in Knoxville, Tennessee. Capettini earned her PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she specialized in new fabulism and fiction writing. She is the author of Thistle , winner of Omnidawn’s Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest, and her work has also appeared in places such as Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress Publications, 2014). Capettini teaches courses in creative writing, fiction writing, new fabulism, and ghost stories.

  • PhD, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • MA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • BA, Lake Forest College

Lillien Chew, Senior Instructor

Office: Root Hall A224; E-mail: [email protected]

Lillien Chew (MA, English, 2010) has been a full-time Instructor in the Department of English since 2011. She teaches primarily freshman and junior composition, along with an occasional themed literature course for freshmen. Her areas of interest include Folklore and American Realism and Naturalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with a special concentration on Terre Haute native Theodore Dreiser.

  • MA, Indiana State University, 2010
  • BS, Indiana State University, 2007

Kathleen Coffey, Assistant Professor

Office: Root Hall A212; E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Kathleen M. Coffey, Assistant Professor of English, joined the Department of English in 2019 after completing her PhD at Miami University of Ohio in Composition and Rhetoric. Throughout her graduate degrees, she worked with a wide variety of clients as a technical communicator, user experience (UX) consultant, and consumer insight researcher. Formerly the assistant director of the Famer School of Business writing center at Miami, she co-authored “Consulting with Collaborative Writing Teams,”  Writing Center Journal  (2016). Predominantly, Dr. Coffey’sresearch focuses on the activity of developing networked, mobile technologies for community engagement. Broadly, her interests include public rhetoric, digital rhetoric, user experience and usability, content strategy, as well as community engagement, and she enjoys incorporating these specialties into her courses at ISU.

  • PhD, Miami University of Ohio, 2019
  • MA, Miami University of Ohio, 2014
  • BA, University of Dayton, 2011

Brendan Corcoran, Associate Professor

Office: Root Hall A227; E-mail: [email protected]

In 1989, Brendan Corcoran received his BA in the Humanities from Yale University. He then served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala from 1989-1991. On returning to the US, he completed an MA in poetry writing from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars (1995). He received his doctorate in English from Emory University in 2003 and began teaching that same year in ISU’s Department of English. Corcoran works on twentieth-century and contemporary Irish and British poetry, Irish Studies, and literary representations of violence and loss. Current scholarship focuses on Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and other contemporary Northern Irish poets. His research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary British literature, the elegy, environmental literature and writing about climate change, Romantic poetry, war literature, world literature, and poetry writing.

  • PhD, Emory University, 2003
  • MA, The Johns Hopkins University, 1995
  • BA, Yale University, 1989

Chris Drew, Associate Professor and Department Advisor

Office: Root Hall A229; E-mail: [email protected]

Chris Drew joined the ISU Department of English in 2014 after completing his PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University and an MA in teaching from Oakland City University. He has taught a variety of subjects in the department, including teaching methods, creative writing, literature, composition, and grammar. He also supervises the department’s English Teaching major, as well as its dual credit and NCTE accreditation programs. His writing and research have appeared in  English Leadership Quarterly , The Journal of Creative Writing Studies , Mad River Review , Floyd Shine , The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association ,  Bellevue Literary Review , and  Quarterly West . He was named a 2017–18 NCTE/CEL Emerging Leaders Fellow, and he co-edited the anthology  Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy .

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2014
  • MFA, Oregon State University, 2007
  • MA, Oakland City University, 2000
  • BS, University of Evansville, 1999

Christine (Christy) Elkins, Administrative Assistant

Office: Root Hall A265; Telephone: 812.237.3164; E-mail: [email protected]

Christy Elkins began working for the Department in 2018. She assists the Chairperson in the daily operation of the main office; prepares required University forms, contracts, reports, and documentation; and manages the arrangements for the Schick lecture series.  She also assists faculty in the preparation of course materials, coordinates travel contracts, and prepares materials for the Bash, Dreiser, Landini, and Schick speaker series. Most importantly, however, she is an invaluable resource person for teachers and students in the Department.

Elaine Farrugia, Instructor

Office: Root Hall A250; E-mail: [email protected]

Elaine Farrugia is a full-time Instructor in the Department of English. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University in 2006 and has since taught a variety of courses in composition, creative writing, and creative nonfiction. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Puerto del Sol and Another Chicago Magazine , and her current writing projects reflect her experience as the child of Maltese immigrants.

  • MFA, Arizona State University, 2006
  • BA, Knox College, 2001

James Greene, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Office: Root Hall A222; E-mail; [email protected]

James Greene joined the Department of English in 2018 after five years as an assistant professor at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He teaches courses in American literature, literary analysis, and advanced composition. His research interests focus on the literature of the early republic, from the late 18th into the early 19th century. He is the author of  The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Military Sacrifice and Popular Sovereignty in Revolutionary War Veteran Narratives  (Louisiana State University Press, 2019). His current research project analyzes the first treaty between the United States and an indigenous tribe, the 1778 Treaty of Fort Pitt.

  • PhD: West Virginia University, 2013
  • MA: West Virginia University, 2005
  • BA: University of Kentucky, 2003

Michael Harrold, Senior Instructor

Office: Root Hall A230; E-mail: [email protected]

Michael Harrold was an Instructor from 2012 to 2019 and became a Senior Instructor in 2020, but he has taught composition at Indiana State University since 1997. He graduated from Indiana State University in 1987 with a BS degree in English and minor in Creative Writing and in 1994 with an MA degree in English. His primary teaching responsibilities are English 105, English 107, and English 305 (both on campus and online). He was Associate Editor or Editor of  Indiana English  from 1999 to 2004. Michael won the Dean’s Educational Excellence Award in 2000 and the Residential Life Recognition for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Students in 2012.

  • MA, Indiana State University, 1994
  • BA, Indiana State University, 1987

Rosetta Haynes, Professor Emeritus

Office: Root Hall A226; E-mail: [email protected]

Rosetta Haynes is a Professor of English and Gender Studies.  She received her Ph. D. in English from Cornell University in 1996.  Her research interests include African American literature, Multicultural American literature, and Women’s literature.  Some of her publications include: Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women , “Zilpha Elaw’s Serial Domesticity: An Unsentimental Journey,” “Voice, Body and Collaboration: Constructions of Authority in The History of Mary Prince ,” and “Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Experimentation in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherríe Moraga and Maxine Hong Kingston.”  In 2002, she received the College of Arts and Sciences Educational Excellence Award for teaching.

  • PhD, Cornell University, 1996
  • MA, Cornell University, 1993
  • BA, Fisk University, 1986

Jake Jakaitis, Professor Emeritus

Office: Root Hall A266; E-mail: [email protected]

Jake Jakaitis earned his PhD in English at the University of Illinois in 1988 and joined the faculty at ISU in the same academic year. He has published articles on Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick and, with James F. Wurtz, edited Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series, and Genres (2012). He teaches courses in science fiction, multicultural American literature, 19th- and 20th-century American literature, and literary theory and criticism.

  • PhD, University of Illinois—Urbana, 1990
  • AM, University of Illinois, 1976
  • AB, University of Illinois, 1974

Kathleen (Kit) Kincade, Professor 

Office: Root Hall A206; Telephone: 237.3173; E-mail: [email protected]

Kit Kincade is Professor of English and Gender Studies. Her books include an edition of Defoe’s  Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions  and the Valancourt Press edition of Clara Reeve’s  The Old English Baron , as well as a co-edited collection of essays  Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe . Her articles on Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth have appeared in a number of recent essay collections. She is the Managing Editor of the Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe edition series, published by Bucknell University Press, and she is Book Review Editor for  The Eighteenth-Century Novel .

  • PhD, Louisiana State University, 1998
  • MA, Louisiana State University, 1993
  • Certificate Book Publishing—Howard University Press, 1993
  • BA, University of California—Riverside, 1988

Katherine Lee, Associate Professor

Office: Root Hall A258; Telephone: 237.3276; E-mail: [email protected]

Katherine Lee earned her BA in English at Indiana University, and her MA and PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. An Associate Professor with research interests in American literature and popular culture, gender studies, and race studies, she has published essays on Asian American literature, women's autobiography, Chappelle's Show , The Sopranos , and Sex and the City . Her current projects include an analysis of sequels in popular culture inspired by "canonical" literature.

  • PhD, University of Missouri—Columbia, 2001
  • MA, University of Missouri—Columbia, 1995
  • BA, Indiana University, 1992

Mark Lewandowski, Professor

Office: Root Hall A218; E-mail: [email protected]

Mark Lewandowski is the author of the short story collection, Halibut Rodeo released by All Things That Matter Press. His stories and essays have appeared in many journals, and have been listed as Notable in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, and twice in The Best American Essays . He's also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Positioning , a short film based on his script, was produced by Cinemantrix in 2009. It premiered at the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival, and has since screened at eight other festivals. After graduating from Wichita State University with an MFA in Creative Writing, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Poland. In 1999, he received a Fulbright Grant to teach American Studies and Creative Writing at Siauliai University in Lithuania.

  • MFA, Wichita State University, 1991
  • BA, University of Kansas, 1988

Miriam Mattsey, Senior Instructor

Office: Remote; E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Miriam (Maia) Mattsey earned a BS from the University of Michigan and an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She worked as a medical doctor in Indianapolis before making a professional transition to English. She has been teaching English courses at ISU since 2008, when she began graduate studies. She obtained her MA in English with a Concentration in Literature from ISU in 2010. As a Senior Instructor, she teaches both composition and literature courses. Currently she teaches Technical Writing, but she has also taught Freshman Writing I and Freshman Writing II. Her interests also include modern American literature and poetry, and she also currently teaches a Literature and Human Experience course that explores the notion of taking people and things for granted. In 2010, Dr. Mattsey wrote “Growing Pains,” a review of a book of poetry by Susan Millar DuMars. Mattsey’s review was published in the  South Carolina Review . Mattsey received the ISU Residential Life Award in 2012. In the ISU Class of 2018 First Destination Survey, she was recognized by students for her contribution to student success.

  • MD, University of Illinois—Chicago, 2001
  • BA, University of Michigan, 1995

Mandy Reid, Associate Professor

Office: Root Hall A253; E-mail: [email protected]

Mandy Reid joined the Department of English in 2005 after earning a MA and a PhD from Rice University. She regularly teaches courses on popular literature, American women writers, composition, and Women’s Studies, and she is an Affiliate member of Gender Studies. Some of her work has appeared in Early Popular Visual Studies and Nineteenth-Century Contexts . In 2013, she was awarded the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award.

  • PhD, Rice University, 2005
  • MA, English, Rice University, 2003
  • BA, Trinity University, 1999

Heather Roberts, Senior Instructor

Office: Root Hall A208; E-mail: [email protected]

Heather Roberts has been a full-time member of the Indiana State University English department as an Instructor since the fall of 2011. Heather Roberts earned her BA in English with double minors in Psychology and French in 2005 from Indiana State University and then earned her MA in English, emphasis in literature, in 2009 from Indiana State University as well. Currently, she teaches composition courses for freshmen and juniors as well as the Foundational Studies introductory literature course, Literature and Human Experience. She also is the English coordinator for the University’s LEAP program, an intense summer bridge course for incoming freshmen students. Heather Roberts has a book review in The Eighteenth-Century Novel and one forthcoming in The Journal of Monsters and the Monstrous .

  • MA, Indiana State University, 2009
  • BA, Indiana State University, 2005

Michael Shelden, Professor

Office: Root Hall A256; E-mail: [email protected]

Michael Shelden (PhD, Indiana University) is the author of several biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Orwell: The Authorized Biography , which was also a New York Times Notable Book. His study of Mark Twain’s final years, Man in White , was chosen as one of the best books of 2010 by the Christian Science Monitor and the Library Journal. For fifteen years, he was a features writer for the London Daily Telegraph , and for ten years he served as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun . His work has also appeared in The Shakespeare Quarterly , Victorian Studies, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . His most recent book— Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill —was published in 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

  • PhD, Indiana University, 1979
  • MA, Indiana University, 1975
  • BA, University of Nebraska, 1973

Jessica Singleton, Instructor

Office: Root Hall A281; Telephone: 237.4444; E-mail: [email protected]

Jessica Singleton joined the Department as an Instructor in 2012 after receiving her BS in English Education, with a minor in History, from the University of Evansville (2009) and her MA in English, with a concentration in English and American literature, from Indiana State University (2012). While at ISU, she has taught freshman composition courses that focus on developmental writing skills and research methods.

  • MA, Indiana State University, 2012
  • BA, University of Evansville, 2009

Brian Stone, Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Programs

Office: Root Hall A220; Telephone: 237.3506; E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Brian James Stone received his PhD in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 2014.  His research interests are eclectic, but primary focuses include the history of the rhetorical arts in the late antique and medieval west, especially Ireland, and critical composition pedagogy. Dr. Stone has published widely on a variety of topics such as medieval Irish literature, composition pedagogy for under-represented students, and the history of rhetoric. He teaches courses in all of these areas. Dr. Stone also has active professional and research interests in writing program administration, writing across the curriculum, and writing in the disciplines.

  • PhD, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale
  • MA, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale
  • BA, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale

Robin Voll, Instructor and TA Coordinator for the Writing Center

Office: Root Hall A213; E-mail: [email protected]

Robin Voll is an Instructor for the Department of English and the Director of the ISU Writing Center. She oversees the functions and activities of the Writing Center, and she teaches Freshman Writing, Advanced Expository Writing, Grammar for Teachers and Writers, and History of the English Language. Her research interests include writing center pedagogy, medieval literature, language change, and English language varieties.

  • BS, Indiana State University, 2005

Maggie Wheeler, Senior Instructor

Office: Root Hall A282; Telephone: 237.3170; E-mail: [email protected]

Maggie Wheeler is a graduate of the Butler University MFA program and has had fiction published in Punchnel’s , Word River , and Indiana English . She is an Instructor in the Department of English at Indiana State University where she teaches Advanced Composition and Creative Writing. In addition to writing and teaching, she is a volunteer with the Terre Haute Humane Society where she is the Outreach/Education Coordinator. She resides in Terre Haute, Indiana, with her husband and three rescue dogs.

  • MA, Indiana State University, 2001
  • BA, Indiana State University, 1990

J. D. Wireman, Instructor

Office: Root Hall A225; E-mail: [email protected]

J. D. Wireman is an Instructor in the Department of English and has taught composition courses at Indiana State University since 2004.

  • MA, University of Wyoming, 1995
  • BS, Eastern Michigan University, 1992

James Wurtz, Associate Professor and Chairperson

Office: Root Hall A207; Telephone: 237.3135; E-mail: [email protected]

James F. Wurtz received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame, where he wrote his dissertation on Irish modernism and the Gothic. He teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century British and Irish writing, as well as literary theory and criticism, and rhetoric and composition. He has published articles on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, World War I and graphic narrative, and Batman. He has also edited a new critical edition of the Irish writer J. S Le Fanu’s first novel, The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City , published by Valancourt Books, and co-edited a collection of essays on graphic narrative, published by McFarland Books. His current research interests include graphic narrative, Steampunk, and Neo-Victorian writing and art. 

  • PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2005
  • MA, University of Notre Dame, 2003
  • BA, John Carroll University, 1999

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Kelcey ervick, ph.d. | coordinator, wiekamp hall 3167 | (574) 520-4503, about the minor in creative writing.

Explore your creative side! The Creative Writing Minor is an excellent complement to any major. Students write original stories, poems, and personal essays; read and analyze important works of literature; and develop practical skills in editing and publishing.

  • ENG-W 130 and ENG-W 131 do not count toward the minor.
  • All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise noted.

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  • ENG-W 206 Introduction to Creative Writing
  • ENG-L 202 Literary Interpretation

Select one from the following upper-division creative writing courses:

  • ENG-W 301 Writing Fiction May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 302 Screenwriting May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 303 Writing Poetry May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 311 Creative Nonfiction May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 401 Advanced Fiction Writing May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 403 Advanced Poetry Writing May be taken twice for credit
  • ENG-W 413 Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing May be taken twice for credit

Select one from the following creative writing electives:

  • ENG-A 190 Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity
  • ENG-A 399 Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity
  • ENG-W 280 Literary Editing and Publishing
  • ENG-W 302 Screenwriting

Select any 300–level literature course (ENG-E 3xx or ENG-L 3xx)

Special Requirements for English Majors

English majors may minor in creative writing only if they choose the literature concentration in the major. 

  • In place of the ENG-L 202 Literary Interpretation requirement for the minor, English majors take any creative writing course.
  • In addition, English majors have the option to substitute another creative writing course for the 300–level literature course requirement of the minor

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Creative Writing major

The creative writing major at UIndy gives you the opportunity to develop and hone your creative writing skills. Whether you're interested in poetry or fiction, our dedicated faculty will help you push your writing endeavors to new heights. With a diverse background of writing skills, our faculty can show you how to make your poems memorable or your short story cohesive and entertaining. Multiple writing workshop courses will help you improve your writing, while literature courses will allow you to explore various genres. Students can also add a creative writing minor to any degree.

Program strengths

  • Published authors meet and speak with students in their classes
  • Valuable hands-on experience editing and publishing a literary and fine arts magazine, Etchings
  • Course topics include advanced poetry and advanced fiction writing workshops, genre writing workshops, and publishing the literary and fine arts magazines
  • Career-focused electives help students understand how to market their writing skills
  • Faculty have published books in both fiction and poetry
  • Opportunities to meet & listen to writers through the Kellogg Writer Series
  • Faculty with books published in fiction and poetry

Potential careers in creative writing:

The creative writing program is designed to not only hone your creative writing skills, but also enhance your research, reading and composition skills, which are valuable in many fields, including:

  • Professional writer: Many students choose to use their creative writing skills for companies by writing grants, web content or technical documents.
  • Professional editor: Many marketing departments rely on editors to review work before it is published.
  • Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Further develop and hone your creative writing skills by attending graduate school.
  • Creative writer: With hard work and dedication, you could become a published author or poet.
  • Literary arts administration: Work for community arts organizations that develop poetry in the schools and communities, literacy outreach and writer series programs.
  • Advertising and marketing: Advertising, public relations, media and marketing departments depend on good copywriters.

Creative writing might be for you if:

  • You enjoy planning, writing and developing your own creative fiction
  • You enjoy writing poetry and want to learn how to improve your writing
  • You are curious about how you can apply, market and utilize your creative writing talents in the real world
  • You want to learn about the styles and techniques of poetry and/or fiction

Creative writing minor

Pairing a creative writing minor with another degree shows future employers that you have studied the art and craft of writing, which is an increasingly common asset in many career fields. Countless businesses require individuals who can effectively manage the flow of written communication, using proper points of view, grammar and structure and well-developed ideas. Completion of this minor requires a minimum of 21 hours of core requirements and electives.

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These curriculum guides outline the different classes you will need to take as a creative writing major. The general education guide provides a list of all the class options and requirements that you need in order to fulfill the university's general education requirements. The creative writing guide provides a list of all the classes you will need take in order to fulfill the major's requirements. Be sure you look at both guides in order to get a complete picture of what your classes will look like at UIndy.

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The Creative Writing Faculty are active writers who are widely published. They bring their experience, knowledge, and passion to the classroom. 

David Dodd Lee, Editor of 42 Miles Press

Publications:  The Coldest Winter on Earth (Marick Press), Things Superficially So Unlike Us (Four Way Books, late 2013), The Nervous Filaments (Four Way 2010), Orphan, Indiana (Akron, 2010), Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, the Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlazeVox, 2010), Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000), and Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues, 1997). Courses:  W303 and W403 Advanced Poetry Writing, W513 Graduate Poetry Writing, W203 Intro to Creative Writing; A190/A399 Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity: Poetry; W280 Literary Editing and Publishing Specialty:  Poetry

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Kelcey Ervick, Director of Creative Writing

Publications:  Liliane's Balcony (Rose Metal Press, forthcoming 2013), For Sale By Owner (Kore Press 2011) Courses:  W615 Graduate Creative Nonfiction; W511 Graduate Fiction Writing; W301/W401 Adv. Fiction Writing; W203 Intro to Creative Writing; A190/A399 Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity Web page:   http://kelceyparker.com    Specialty:  Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

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Benjamin Balthaser

Publications:  Dedication (Partisan Press 2011) Courses:  W203 Intro to Creative Writing Specialty:  Poetry

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Founded in 1990 and running continuously since that time, the Campus Writing Program (CWP) provides consultation to instructors on the use of writing in classes and supports students, through Writing Tutorial Services (WTS), as they work to meet the demands of those courses. The CWP is charged with campus Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiatives, especially training instructors in the teaching of Intensive Writing (IW) courses, Writing in the Disciplines (WID), assignment design, grading best practices, and using WTS effectively to support students.

Who are we?

  • John Paul Kanwit , Campus Writing Program Director 
  • Mary Helen Truglia , Writing Tutorial Services Director 
  • Lizzie Gaugel , Writing Tutorial Services Program Coordinator 
  • Two Graduate Assistants, who facilitate our writing groups for graduate students 
  • About forty undergraduate and graduate tutors from disciplines across the IUB campus 
  • The Campus Writing Program Advisory Board, comprising about sixteen faculty, staff, and tutors  

What do we do?

The CWP helps all IUB instructors use writing more often and more strategically in their classes through one-on-one consultations, workshops, and classroom presentations.  We promote writing for learning course material, for engaging deeply with that material, and for learning how to write for specific disciplines and audiences. 

The CWP is the primary office on campus charged with supporting Intensive Writing (IW), one of the eleven high-impact practices identified by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and a Shared Goal in the IUB General Education Curriculum Program. As such, we provide training to instructors teaching IW courses, forums to discuss IW across campus, and guidance for IW course proposals. Because of our expertise in designing and supporting large-scale writing and multimedia projects, we also support instructors and students with such related high-impact practices as first-year seminars, undergraduate research, and senior capstones.   

What is our mission?

The Writing Program has three missions: 

  • To assist instructors, through consultations, workshops, faculty learning communities, and course development grants, as they work to incorporate writing into their programs 
  • To help students, through tutorials and writing groups, as they work to meet the demands of those programs 
  • To promote Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) and to research the efficacy of WAC and WID claims 

What is our vision?

The CWP will be nationally recognized for providing excellent resources for all students and instructors and for a commitment to cultivating a culture of written communication across the University. This culture of written communication is essential to ensuring that students learn the skills and habits of mind that are essential to college and career success. 

What are our values?

The CWP views writing in its many forms and in every class at IUB as a vitally important tool for effective, equitable, and inclusive teaching. Drawing on the large body of scholarship since the Writing Across the Curriculum movement began in the 1980s, we believe that students should write in all courses, that they should have many opportunities to learn course content through low-stakes writing, and that they should practice disciplinary conventions and forms for writing.  

Because writing fosters critical thinking, engagement with course material, and learning of course content, students should write often, in a variety of forms, and with opportunities to integrate the writing process, including frequent feedback from instructors and peers (Fulwiler and Young, 1982; Forsman, 1985; Bean and Melzer, 2021). So that all students have an equal chance to succeed, writing assignments should follow transparent design by specifying the task that students are to complete, the purpose of the assignment, the audience for the writing, and the criteria for success (Winkelmes, 2013). Likewise, writing assignments should engage all students by providing them with multiple ways of demonstrating what they have learned about a topic.    

Acknowledging the inherently intertwined nature of writing, education, identity, and language usage, we respect students' right to their own language . We view the many forms of academic English as varieties of English, predominantly used in the university context in which we work as well as in many places of employment, both domestic and international. In collaboration with IU instructors, we aim to support the learning of academic conventions and registers with attention to critical language awareness, and to assist students in expanding their rich linguistic repertoires in meaningful ways to allow students to move with volition between discourses, using their own plurilingual resources. 

In our aim to fulfill this promise for all students, we provide guidance for instructors who want to strengthen their students’ skills and fluency in academic American English, as well as respecting and valuing all varieties of English used by our diverse student population. As members of the university community, we will continue to educate ourselves, each other, and our students on ways we speak and write about issues of racism, oppression, and bias. To that end, we seek to respect the diversity of linguistic and cultural backgrounds students bring to IU, and we advocate for antiracist, bias-free, and bias-aware language practices in alignment with leading style guides.

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  • Craft meaningful and transparent writing assignments 
  • Build the writing process into courses 
  • Work effectively with international and multilingual writers 
  • Grade fairly and efficiently 
  • Use rubrics effectively 
  • Train AIs, GAs, and UTAs to grade and respond to writing 
  • Comment productively on student papers 
  • Integrate brief writing assignments into courses 
  • Use visual texts as writing prompts 
  • Integrate peer review successfully into courses 
  • Effectively propose and teach Intensive Writing (IW) courses 

We help students to...

  • Develop strong thesis statements 
  • Develop effective outlines 
  • Find and integrate credible sources 
  • Address problems with grammar 
  • Understand and avoid plagiarism 
  • Write effective answers to essay exam questions 

Writing Tutorial Services  is located in the Learning Commons on the first floor of the Wells Library, and participates in the Academic Support Centers (ASCs) in Briscoe, Forest, and Teter Residence Halls. WTS also partners with the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to offer tutoring in several of IU’s Cultural Centers. WTS employs about 40 tutors—graduate students and undergraduates—to assist IU students working on writing assignments for any of their courses. Students can schedule an appointment online for WTS’s Wells Library or Cultural Center locations (tutoring in the ASCs is on a walk-in basis). Instructors can request a class visit to introduce WTS to their students, or arrange a course-specific tutor by emailing [email protected] .

The Campus Writing Program also regularly investigates the effectiveness of the tutoring provided in Writing Tutorial Services by surveying students, interviewing faculty members whose students use WTS, and by studying in various ways the interactions between tutors and students. The results of several of these investigations have been presented at national and international conferences.

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USI’s creative writing faculty includes award-winning published writers committed to teaching undergraduate writing. Opportunities to professionalize and contribute to the literary community at USI abound; creative writing students are encouraged to join the  Student Writers Union , work as editors for  FishHook  (a student literary magazine), and intern for the nationally recognized literary journal,  The Southern Indiana Review .  Additionally, the  Southern Indiana Reading Series , coordinated by creative writing faculty, brings to campus 2-3 highly acclaimed writers each semester. These writers often visit creative writing classes, so students get to interact with them in a classroom setting, an invaluable experience.   As a creative writing student, you’ll not only learn a set of transferable job skills, you’ll find a community of peers and teachers who share your serious interest in, and dedication to, the art and craft of creative writing.

By choosing this program, you’ll graduate with a better understanding of how stories, poems, and essays are crafted, as well as a greater appreciation of literature in general. In honing your writing, reading, and analytical abilities, you’ll leave with a concrete set of skills applicable to any number of careers. You’ll graduate from USI with an understanding of the major socio-historical contexts informing the study of American/British literature, an understanding of the distinctions between major literary genres, and you’ll have developed as an emerging professional with skills and habits of mind that will help you achieve success in further study in the discipline and your profession. You will have become a multi-dimensional reader, thinker, and writer.

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The major in English with a creative writing emphasis culminates in a  Bachelor of Arts degree , which requires 12 semester hours in the same foreign language or demonstration of proficiency at that level of study.  Or a Bachelor of Science degree, in lieu of the language proficiency, Bachelor of Science students will complete the following requirements as part of Core 39: two natural science courses; one social science course; and a world languages and culture course. Please see the Core 39 website  for more detail.

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  • All courses and prerequisites fulfilling the requirements for minors or certificates in English must be completed with a grade of C or higher.
  • The overall GPA for any English minor or certificate must be 3.0.
  • English majors may count no more than two online and/or correspondence courses toward the minor or certificate. Students may request departmental consent for exception.

Learning Outcomes

  • Knowledge of Craft Terms and Concepts: The student will become knowledgeable in essential craft terms and concepts in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction.
  • Competency in Creative Writing: The student will develop competency in creating original works in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction.
  • Competency in Revision: The student will be able to meaningfully revise original creative writing and incorporate suggestions from peers and instructors.
  • Competency in Critiquing Creative Writing: The student will learn to meaningfully critique drafts of other student writers applying craft terms and concepts, participate in workshops, and prepare workshop reports.
  • Competency in Analyzing Creative Writing: The student will be able to analyze works by major authors of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in analytic essays and scholarly articles.
  • Appreciation of Literature and Literary Culture: The student will develop aesthetic values and appreciate literature and literary culture by reading important works and analyzing them, participating in university and community events featuring readings and lectures, participating in the university and community literary scene, and attending cross-cultural and cross-media events such as plays and gallery shows, to understand the interrelatedness of the arts.

University Residency Requirement

Students must complete 50% of the required credit hours for a certificate in residence at IU Southeast. Some departments may have additional Residency requirements.

Creative Writing Specific Residency Requirement

English majors may count no more than two online and/or correspondence courses toward the minor or certificate. Students may request departmental consent for exception.

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A personal statement is a narrative essay that connects your background, experiences, and goals to the mission, requirements, and desired outcomes of the specific opportunity you are seeking. It is a critical component in the selection process, whether the essay is for a competitive internship, a graduate fellowship, or admittance to a graduate school program. It gives the selection committee the best opportunity to get to know you, how you think and make decisions, ways in which past experiences have been significant or formative, and how you envision your future. Personal statements can be varied in form; some are given a specific prompt, while others are less structured. However, in general a personal statement should answer the following questions:

  • Who are you?
  • What are your goals?
  • How does this specific program/opportunity help you achieve your goals?
  • What is in the future?

A personal statement is not:

  • A variation of your college admissions essay
  • An academic/research paper
  • A narrative version of your resume
  • A creative writing piece (it can be creative, though)
  • An essay about somebody else

Keep in mind that your statement is only a portion of the application and should be written with this in mind. Your entire application package will include some, possibly all, of the materials listed below. You will want to consider what these pieces of the application communicate about you. Your personal statement should aim to tie everything together and fill in or address any gaps. There will likely be some overlap but be sure not to be too repetitive.

  • Personal Statement(s)
  • Transcripts
  • Letters of recommendations
  • Sample of written work
  • Research proposal

Preparing to Write A large portion of your work towards completing a personal statement begins well before your first draft or even an outline. It is incredibly important to be sure you understand all of the rules and regulations around the statement. Things to consider before you begin writing:

  • How many prompts? And what are they? It is important to know the basics so you can get your ideas in order. Some programs will require a general statement of interest and a focused supplementary or secondary statement closely aligned with the institution's goals.
  • Are there formatting guidelines? Single or double spaced, margins, fonts, text sizes, etc. Our general guideline is to keep it simple.
  • How do I submit my statement(s)? If uploading a document we highly suggest using a PDF as it will minimize the chances of accidental changes to formatting. Some programs may event ask you to copy and paste into a text box.
  • When do I have to submit my statement(s)? Most are due at the time of application but some programs, especially medical schools, will ask for secondary statements a few months after you apply. In these instances be sure to complete them within two weeks, any longer is an indication that you aren't that interested in the institution.

Before you start writing, take some time to reflect on your experiences and motivations as they relate to the programs to which you are applying. This will offer you a chance to organize your thoughts which will make the writing process much easier. Below are a list of questions to help you get started:

  • What individuals, experiences or events have shaped your interest in this particular field?
  • What has influenced your decision to apply to graduate school?
  • How does this field align with your interests, strengths, and values?
  • What distinguishes you from other applicants?
  • What would you bring to this program/profession?
  • What has prepared you for graduate study in this field? Consider your classes at Wellesley, research and work experience, including internships, summer jobs and volunteer work.
  • Why are you interested in this particular institution or degree program?
  • How is this program distinct from others?
  • What do you hope to gain?
  • What is motivating you to seek an advanced degree now?
  • Where do you see yourself headed and how will this degree program help you get there?

For those applying to Medical School, if you need a committee letter for your application and are using the Medical Professions Advisory Committee you have already done a lot of heavy lifting through the 2017-2018 Applicant Information Form . Even if you aren't using MPAC the applicant information form is a great place to start.

Another great place to start is through talking out your ideas. You have a number of options both on and off campus, such as: Career Education advisors and mentors ( you can set up an appointment here ), major advisor, family, friends. If you are applying to a graduate program it is especially important to talk with a faculty member in the field. Remember to take good notes so you can refer to them later.

When you begin writing keep in mind that your essay is one of many in the application pool. This is not to say you should exaggerate your experiences to “stand out” but that you should focus on clear, concise writing. Also keep in mind that the readers are considering you not just as a potential student but a future colleague. Be sure to show them examples and experiences which demonstrate you are ready to begin their program.

It is important to remember that your personal statement will take time and energy to complete, so plan accordingly. Every application and statement should be seen as different from one another, even if they are all the same type of program. Each institution may teach you the same material but their delivery or focus will be slightly different.

In addition, remember:

  • Be yourself: You aren’t good at being someone else
  • Tragedy is not a requirement, reflection and depth are
  • Research the institution or organization
  • Proofread, proofread, proofread
  • How to have your personal statement reviewed

The prompts below are from actual applications to a several types of programs. As you will notice many of them are VERY general in nature. This is why it is so important to do your research and reflect on your motivations. Although the prompts are similar in nature the resulting statements would be very different depending on the discipline and type of program, as well as your particular background and reasons for wanting to pursue this graduate degree.

  • This statement should illustrate your academic background and experiences and explain why you would excel in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UMass Amherst - M.S. in Civil Engineering).
  • Describe your academic and career objectives and how the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies can help you achieve them. Include other considerations that explain why you seek admissions to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and your interests in the environmental field (Yale - Master of Environmental Management).  
  • Please discuss your academic interests and goals. Include your current professional and research interests, as well as your long-range professional objectives. Please be as specific as possible about how your objectives can be met at Clark and do not exceed 800 words (Clark University - M.A. in International Development and Social Change).
  • Write a 500- to 700-word statement that describes your work or research. Discuss how you came to focus on the medium, body of work, or academic area you wish to pursue at the graduate level. Also discuss future directions or goals for your work, and describe how the Master of Fine Arts in Studio (Printmedia) is particularly suited to your professional goals (School of the Art Institute of Chicago - MFA in Studio, Printmaking).
  • Your statement should explain why you want to study economics at the graduate level. The statement is particularly important if there is something unusual about your background and preparation that you would like us to know about you (University of Texas at Austin - Ph.D in Economics).
  • Your personal goal statement is an important part of the review process for our faculty members as they consider your application. They want to know about your background, work experience, plans for graduate study and professional career, qualifications that make you a strong candidate for the program, and any other relevant information (Indiana University Bloomington - M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education).
  • Your autobiographical essay/personal statement is a narrative that outlines significant experiences in your life, including childhood experiences, study and work, your strengths and aspirations in the field of architecture, and why you want to come to the University of Oregon (University of Oregon - Master of Architecture).
  • Personal history and diversity statement, in which you describe how your personal background informs your decision to pursue a graduate degree. You may refer to any educational, familial, cultural, economic or social experiences, challenges, community service, outreach activities, residency and citizenship, first-generation college status, or opportunities relevant to your academic journey; how your life experiences contribute to the social, intellectual or cultural diversity within a campus community and your chosen field; or how you might serve educationally underrepresented and underserved segments of society with your graduate education (U.C. Davis - M.A. in Linguistics).
  • A Personal Statement specifying your past experiences, reasons for applying, and your areas of interest. It should explain your intellectual and personal goals, why you are interested in pursuing an interdisciplinary degree rather than a more traditional disciplinary one, and how this degree fits into your intellectual and personal future (Rutgers University - Ph.D in Women’s and Gender Studies).
  • Your application requires a written statement to uploaded into your application and is a critical component of your application for admission. This is your opportunity to tell us what excites you about the field of library and information science, and what problems you want to help solve in this field. Please also tell us how your prior experiences have prepared you for this next step toward your career goals and how this program will help you achieve them (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Master of Science in Library Science).
  • After watching the video, please describe what strengths and preferences as a learner you have that will facilitate your success in this innovative curriculum. What challenges in our curriculum do you anticipate and what strategies might you use to address these challenges? (MGH Institute of Health Professions PT - They recently redesigned their curriculum)
  • Your personal goal statement should briefly describe how you view the future of the field, what your goals are to be part of that future, and what brought you to pursue an advanced education degree in your chosen field. You may include any other information that you feel might be useful. (Northeastern PT)
  • Personal Statement: In 500 words or less, describe a meaningful educational experience that affected your professional goals and growth and explain how it impacted you. The educational experience does not need to be related to this degree. Focus on the educational experience and not why you think you would be a good professional in this field. (Simmons PT)
  • Personal Statement (500 word minimum): State your reasons for seeking admission to this program at this institution. Include your professional goals, why you want to pursue a career in this field and how admission to this program will assist you in accomplishing those goals. (Regis College Nursing)
  • “Use the space provided to explain why you want to go to this type of program.” (AMCAS)
  • Address the following three questions(Though there is no set limit, most statements are 1–2 pages, single-spaced.): What are your reasons for pursuing this degree? Why do you wish to pursue your degree at this institution? How do you intend to leverage your degree in a career of this field? (Boston University MPH)
  • Please submit a personal statement/statement of purpose of no more than 500 words for the department/degree of choice. Professional degree essays require a clear understanding of the _______ field and how you hope to work within the field. Be sure to proofread your personal statement carefully for spelling and grammar. In your statement, be sure to address the following: what interests you in the field of _____ what interests you in a specific degree program and department at this institution and what interests you in a particular certificate (if applicable). Please also describe how you hope to use your ________ training to help you achieve your career goals. (Columbia PhD in Public Health - Epidemiology)
  • Because each Home Program requires significant original research activities in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, we are interested in obtaining as much information as possible about your previous research experiences. Those who already have such experience are in a better position to know whether they are truly interested in performing ______ research as part of a graduate program. Please include specific information about your research experience in your Statement of Purpose. You may also use the Statement to amplify your comments about your choice of Home Program(s), and how your past experiences and current interests are related to your choice. Personal Statements should not exceed two pages in length (single spaced). Make sure to set your computer to Western European or other English-language setting. We cannot guarantee the ability to access your statement if it is submitted in other fonts. (Stanford Biosciences PhD)
  • Your statement of purpose should describe succinctly your reasons for applying to the Department of ____ at ___ University. It would be helpful to include what you have done to prepare for this degree program. Please describe your research interests, past research experience, future career plans and other details of your background and interests that will allow us to evaluate your ability to thrive in our program. If you have interests that align with a specific faculty member, you may state this in your application. Your statement of purpose should not exceed two pages in length (single spaced). (Stanford Bioengineering PhD)
  • Statement of purpose (Up to one page or 1,000 words): Rather than a research proposal, you should provide a statement of purpose. Your statement should be written in English and explain your motivation for applying for the course at this institution and your relevant experience and education. Please provide an indication of the area of your proposed research and supervisor(s) in your statement. This will be assessed for the coherence of the statement; evidence of motivation for and understanding of the proposed area of study; the ability to present a reasoned case in English; and commitment to the subject. (Oxford Inorganic Chemistry - DPhil)

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Sixty years ago, the late  Suzanne Knoebel  became the first female cardiology faculty member at her alma mater, the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she pioneered the use of technology, including telephones, computers, and 3D imaging, to improve medical care. She rose to become the first woman president of the American College of Cardiology and an inspiration to female medical students nationwide. 

As IU celebrates Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we continue to further the legacies of trailblazers like Professor Knoebel through a new generation of exceptional women scholars and researchers at IU. 

Still, there is much work still to be done. 

Nationally, among individuals ages 18 to 74, employed in STEM occupations  —  a staggering statistic and an immense area of opportunity given our  IU 2030  goals and the critical need for a diverse and talented STEM workforce to foster innovation and drive our nation’s economic competitiveness.

One way in which IU is addressing this concern is through the  EDGE Consortium , which I co-chair and which includes IU’s first female dean of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Joanna Millunchick. Along with women who are presidents and deans of engineering from the nation’s leading research universities, we are working to double the number of industry-ready women and people of color entering semiconductor-related careers.  

Across IU, women are also leading the way to excellence in the fields of business, health, science, the arts and humanities, and technology. 

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  1. Core faculty

    View a current list of faculty of the Department of English. ... Assistant Director, Creative Writing. [email protected] (812) 855-1430; Ballantine Hall 564; ... Indiana University Writers' Conference; Contact; Student Portal. Undergraduate. Bachelor of Arts. B.A., Creative Writing Concentration;

  2. Creative Writing

    The Creative Writing faculty is comprised of award-winning poets, playwrights, and fiction and nonfiction writers whose honors include fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations, the NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the U.S. Artists Simon Fellowship, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

  3. Master of Fine Arts Degree

    Indiana University's graduate program in Creative Writing offers three years of fully-funded study leading to a Master of Fine Arts degree. Our award-winning faculty works hands-on with candidates throughout a three-year program focused on the learning, application, and integration of craft concepts and the generation and workshopping of original student poetry and fiction.

  4. B.A., Creative Writing Concentration

    The B.A. major in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing allows students to engage with a community of learning through courses focused on the practice of creative writing. ... Workshops are taught by the graduate creative writing faculty—all published, award-winning writers. ... Indiana University Writers' Conference; Contact ...

  5. Faculty

    She received her BA in Theatre and English-Creative Writing from Denison University and her MFA from Butler University. She has served as both a visiting instructor and adjunct at Butler in first-year studies, intro to creative writing, academic writing, media studies, and screenwriting, as well as teaching Acting II at IUPUI.

  6. Creative Writing

    Administrative Assistant Creative Writing Admissions Ballantine Hall 440 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405. Any questions about the departmental application process may directed to the Graduate Administrative Assistant, Bev Hankins ( [email protected] ). Questions about the graduate application itself should be directed to the Help ...

  7. Creative Writing Opportunities

    Creative writing students also have the opportunity to work with the Indiana University Writers' Conference (IUWC), serving in the capacity as assistant director.While the IUWC offers the Bloomington community a week of free readings during the summer months, our M.F.A. students give readings throughout the rest of the year.

  8. CREATIVE WRITING at IU Bloomington: Courses

    ENG-W 203: CREATIVE WRITING (3 credits) Home; Courses; ENG-W 203: CREATIVE WRITING; Offered at IU Bloomington by College of Arts and Sciences. About ... Indiana University. 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Services. Canvas; One.IU; Email. Exchange; About Email at IU; Find. People Directory; Jobs at IU;

  9. Directory

    Professor of English Director of English Graduate Studies. Department: English, Creative Writing, Literature, Women's Studies. (317) 274-9831. [email protected]. Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 503U.

  10. Master of Fine Arts Degree

    Those teaching in W103 Introductory Creative Writing are required to take W554 in their first semester of teaching. This is a practicum on the theory and practice of teaching the writing of poetry and fiction at the college level, with attention to matters of curricular design and classroom technique.

  11. Faculty

    Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is an Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn ...

  12. INTRODUCTORY CREATIVE WRITING at IU Bloomington

    Introduction to the art of creative writing. Short assignments, independent work, and classroom discussion of the fundamentals of writing fiction, poetry, and drama. ... Indiana University. 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Services. Canvas; One.IU; Email. Exchange; About Email at IU; Find. People Directory; Jobs at IU;

  13. People (Faculty and Staff)

    Amy Ash directs the Indiana State University Creative Writing Program. She serves as the faculty advisor for the Creative Writing Society of ISU and for our student-run literary journal, Allusions. Ash holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas. Her teaching and research interests ...

  14. Master of Fine Arts at IU Bloomington

    Creative Writing. Master of Fine Arts. Home; Degrees & Majors; Creative Writing; Offered at IU Bloomington by College of Arts and Sciences. ... Indiana University. 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Services. Canvas; One.IU; Email. Exchange; About Email at IU; Find. People Directory; Jobs at IU;

  15. Creative Writing

    Welcome! The Creative Writing Program at IU South Bend is an active community of student and faculty writers who meet both in class and in the community to share our passion for writing.Courses are offered at the B.A. and M.A. levels, and we offer a Minor in Creative Writing. M.A. students may pursue a creative thesis project in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or screenwriting.

  16. Minor in Creative Writing : Academic Bulletin

    The Creative Writing Minor is an excellent complement to any major. Students write original stories, poems, and personal essays; read and analyze important works of literature; and develop practical skills in editing and publishing. ENG-W 130 and ENG-W 131 do not count toward the minor. All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise noted.

  17. Creative Writing, Master

    Overview. Our award-winning faculty works hands-on with candidates throughout a three-year Creative Writing program offered by Indiana University Bloomington focused on the learning, application, and integration of craft concepts and the generation and workshopping of original student poetry and fiction.

  18. Creative Writing

    With a diverse background of writing skills, our faculty can show you how to make your poems memorable or your short story cohesive and entertaining. Multiple writing workshop courses will help you improve your writing, while literature courses will allow you to explore various genres. Students can also add a creative writing minor to any degree.

  19. Creative Writing Faculty

    Courses: W303 and W403 Advanced Poetry Writing, W513 Graduate Poetry Writing, W203 Intro to Creative Writing; A190/A399 Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity: Poetry; W280 Literary Editing and Publishing Specialty: Poetry

  20. Campus Writing Program

    Instructors can request a class visit to introduce WTS to their students, or arrange a course-specific tutor by emailing [email protected]. The Campus Writing Program also regularly investigates the effectiveness of the tutoring provided in Writing Tutorial Services by surveying students, interviewing faculty members whose students use WTS, and ...

  21. Creative Writing

    Additionally, the Southern Indiana Reading Series, coordinated by creative writing faculty, brings to campus 2-3 highly acclaimed writers each semester. These writers often visit creative writing classes, so students get to interact with them in a classroom setting, an invaluable experience. As a creative writing student, you'll not only ...

  22. Creative Writing : Indiana University Southeast

    Creative Writing. All courses and prerequisites fulfilling the requirements for minors or certificates in English must be completed with a grade of C or higher. The overall GPA for any English minor or certificate must be 3.0. English majors may count no more than two online and/or correspondence courses toward the minor or certificate.

  23. Creative writing workshops begin October 1

    Creative writing faculty from the Indiana University East School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) will host creative writing workshops the first Saturday of every month from 2-3:30 p.m. at IU East's Room 912, located at 912 E. Main St. in Richmond. ... Creative Writing Workshops Schedule Workshops are the first Saturday of each month ...

  24. IU Northwest: Indiana University

    IU Northwest opens spring theater season with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Actors rehearse in the IU Northwest Black Box classroom/performance space. (Left-to-right): Freshman theatre major Gabriel Ashbach, community theatre stalwart Grant Fitch and freshman theatre major Alexander Eddy. Production, set to open April 4, includes cast of students ...

  25. Writing a Personal Statement

    A creative writing piece (it can be creative, though) ... Your personal goal statement is an important part of the review process for our faculty members as they consider your application. ... (Indiana University Bloomington - M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education). Your autobiographical essay/personal statement is a narrative that outlines ...

  26. Empowering women strengthens IU, our state, and our nation

    Sixty years ago, the late Suzanne Knoebel became the first female cardiology faculty member at her alma mater, the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she pioneered the use of technology, including telephones, computers, and 3D imaging, to improve medical care. She rose to become the first woman president of the American College of Cardiology and an inspiration to female medical ...