2025

Dewey Fox is a 2025 Fulbright Scholar.

2024

Candace Walsh is the author of Iridescent Pigeons (Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2024) and is an assistant professor at Central Washington University.

2023

Eric Stiefel is the author of Hello, Nothingness (Main Street Rag, 2022).

Morgan Rose-Marie is an assistant professor at Utah Valley University.

Abigail Rose-Marie is the author of The Moonflowers: A Novel (Lake Union Publishing, 2024).

2022

Christine Adams graduated in 2022. Her dissertation was “Methods of Concealment”.

Melanie Ritzenthaler is a professor at Doane University.

Zoë Bossiere is the author of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir (Abrams Books, 2024) and managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.

Kirk E. Wisland is the author of The Melancholy of Falling Men (winner of 2015 Iron Horse Chapbook Prize).

2021

Derek JG Williams is the author of Reading Water (Lightscatter Press, 2025).

Hugh Martin is the author of In Country (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2018), The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013), and So, How Was The War? (Kent State University Press, 2010), and is an assistant professor at the United States Air Force Academy.

2020

E.M. Tran is the author of Daughters of the New Year (Harper Collins, 2022).

2019

Derek Robbins is a professor at the University of South Florida.

Sarah M. Minor is the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press, 2016). She is a professor at the University of Iowa.

2018

Claire Eder is Claire’s poems and translations have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, the Colorado Review, the Cincinnati Review, and The Common, among other publications. She is of the production coordinator of the University Press of Kentucky. Read more about her here.

Michelle L. Pretorius is the author of The Monster’s Daughter (Melville House, 2016).

Madeline Ffitch is the author of Stay and Fight (Picador, 2020) and Valparaiso, Round the Horn (Publishing Genius Press, 2015).

Kelly Sundberg is the author of The Answer is in the Wound: Trauma, Rage, and Alchemy (Roxane Gay Books, 2025) and Goodye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival (Harper Collins, 2018).

2017

Katherine Berta is the author of retribution forthcoming (Ohio University Press, 2024) and is a professor at Arizona State University.

Maggie Messitt is the author of The Rainy Season (The University of Iowa Press, 2015) and newspaper (Bloomsbury Press, 2024).

Jennifer Pullen is a professor at Ohio Northern University.

2016

Brad Aaron Modlin is the author of Everyone at This Party Has Two Names (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and His Surviving in Drought (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2017). He is a professor at the University of Nebraska Kearney.

Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and is a professor at UT Chattanooga.

Wes Roj graduated in 2016. His dissertation was “Ten Impossible Things Before Daylight”.

Patrick R. Swaney is the author of Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World (YesYes Books, 2025) and is a professor at Catawba College).

Jason L. Jordan graduated in 2016. His dissertation was “On the Merits of Fascism: a Manifesto Novel”.

2015

James M. Miranda graduated in 2015. His dissertation was “Step Right up”.

Sarah Green is the author of Earth Science (Publishing Genius Press, 2016) and is a professor at St. Cloud State University.

2014

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson is the author of My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (Press 53, 2011) and is a professor at Ohio University.

Jolynn C. Baldwin graduated in 2014. Her dissertation was “The Secrets We Hide”.

2013

Alison A. Stine is the author of Dust (Macmillan, 2024), Trashlands (Mira Books, 2022), Road Out of Winter (Mira Books, 2020), The Protectors (Little A, 2016), Wait (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), Ohio Violence (University of North Texas, 2009), and Lot of My Sister (The Kent State University Press, 2001).

Steve Coughlin is the author of Another City (FutureCycle Press, 2015) and Deep Cuts (Finishing Line Press, 2021). He is a professor at Western Colorado University.

2012

Geri Lipschultz currently teaches writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is the author of Grace Before the Fall, (DarkWinter Press, 2025). Read more about her here.

Liz Stephens is the author of The Days Are Gods (University of Nebraska Press, 2013).

2011

Jackson Connor graduated in 2011. His dissertation was “And the Mountains Shall Labor and Bring Forth . . .”

Kathryn Nuernberger is a professor of creative writing in the MFA program at University of Minnesota. Her latest work is Held: Essays in Belonging, available for pre-order now. Read more about her here: https://kathrynnuernberger.com/.

Joseph Plicka’s work has appeared in Booth, Brevity, Hobart, Psaltery and Lyre, Ekstasis (now Inkwell), and other venues. He is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University Hawaii.

2010

David Wanczyk is an assistant professor of creative writing, editor of New Ohio Review and coordinator for special programs at Ohio University. He is the author of Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind (Ohio University Press, 2018). 

Jaswinder Bolina is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Miami University. He is the author of the chapbook, The Tallest Building in America (2014), and several poetry collections, including English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023). Read more about him on his website: https://www.jaswinderbolina.com/.

Megan Lobsinger graduated in 2010. Her dissertation was, “The Last Chance Texaco”.

Rachel Burgess graduated in 2010. Her dissertation was, “Dementure”.

2009

Iver Arnegard works as a work as a fiction and poetry editor and ghostwriter. His book, Whip & Spur, was published by Gold Line Press after winning their fiction award. Read more about him here: https://www.iverarnegard.com/consulting.

Rachael Peckham is an associate professor of English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She is the author of Alight: Flights of Prose (UnCollected Press, 2022) and the chapbook Muck Fire: Prose Poems (Spring Garden Press 2011), which won the Robert Watson Prize.

2008

Kelley Evans graduated in 2008. Her dissertation was, “Body Composition”.

Sherman Sutherland graduated in 2008. His dissertation was, “Diary of the Coolville Killer”.

2007

Michelle Disler’s work has appeared in places like The Laurel Review, Seneca Review, and Columbia, where her essay received the Essay Prize.

Carrie Oeding works in the Teaching and Learning Technologies department as a Learning Designer at Providence College in Providence, RI. Her 2023 Poetry collection, If I Could Give You a Line, won the 2021 Akron Poetry Prize. Read more about her and her work here: https://www.carrieoeding.com/.

2006

Nathan Anderson graduated in 2006. His dissertation was, “I Don’t Think I’m Right in There.”

Hayley Haugen is currently a Professor of English at Ohio University Southern campus. She is the founding editor and director of the non-profit literary journal and small press, Sheila-Na-Gig Inc.

Jennifer Dunning graduated in 2006. Her dissertation was “Far Hills.”

Ellie Williams graduated in 2006. Her dissertation was, “The Divine and Miss Johanna.”

2005

David Bruzina currently teaches reading and writing at the University of South Carolina at Aiken and directs the “Area II” Intellectual History and Critical Thinking program at the North Carolina Governor’s School.

2004

Desirae Matherly graduated in 2004. Her dissertation was, “Aggregaria.”

Patrick Madden is a creative writing professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of three essay collections: Disparates (Nebraska, 2020), Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (2010).

Eric Freeze is a tenured professor at Wabash College in Indiana. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction, and his most recent work is entitled French Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France, (Slant Books, 2020).

2003

Scott Gallagher graduated in 2003. His dissertation was, “Do As I Say, Not As I Do.”

Tony Viola graduated in 2003. His dissertation was, “It Used to Mean Something to Be Italian.”

2002

Tom Conroy graduated in 2002. His dissertation was, “All of Us Lovers.”

Christina Veladota is an associate professor of English Composition and Literature at Washington State Community College, in Marietta, Ohio. She has written two chapbooks, Clutch & Brood (Aldrich Press, 2016) and The Girl & Her Lions (Finishing Line Press, 2010),

Shannon Lakanen is an essayist and professor in Otterbein’s English department and Integrative Studies program.

2001

Cornelius W. Browne was a professor of American literature at Oregon State University.

Michael J. Danko graduated in 2001. His dissertation was, “Educations.”

2000

John Gallaher is an American poet and assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review.

Thomas Noyes is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent publication is The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Novel (Slant, 2021).

1998

Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, most recently Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and he currently teaches English at Colorado State University.

1994

Joseph Bonomo is an American essayist and music writer and currently teaches creative nonfiction and literature at Northern Illinois University.

1992

Kate Fox is the author of The Company Misery Loves (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024) and two poetry chapbooks: The Lazarus Method (Kent State University Press) and Walking Off the Map (Seven Kitchens Press, 2015).

Amy Newman is a translator, American poet, and professor. She is a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of six collections of poems, the most recent being An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness, (Persea Books).

1985

Scott Minar is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University. Scott’s first book of essays, Lunch at Mark Twain’s Grave is in manuscript and may be available soon. His work can be viewed on https://www.scottminar.com/.

1975

Bin Ramke’s books include Theory of Mind, Aerial, and Missing the Moon.