Current Creative Writing Grad Students
Creative Nonfiction and Fiction MFA Students
J.R. Allen
MA, Central Michigan University
BA, Central Michigan University
hollenjr@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: fiction writing, hybrid genres, fragmented narratives, city literature, genre fiction, horror narratives, contemporary Marxism, semiotics, and pop culture rhetorics.
Dalanie Beach
BA, Saint Mary's College
beachdn@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: fiction writing and creative writing; multimodal and cross-disciplinary texts; and studying the relationship between the personal lives of writers and their work.
Laura Gaddis
MS, Loyola College
BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison
gaddislk@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay, braided essays
Rachel Giesel Grimm
BA, Allegheny College
gieselre@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: novel writing, short fiction, identity literature, feminism, magical realism, hybrid forms, experimental storytelling
Madison Krob
BFA, Chatham College
krobmm@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: digital humanities, constructed realities, interactive & immersive mediums, accessible and engaged pedagogy, landscapes of rurality & identity, virtual media and the space of storytelling
Daniel Massett
BA, Le Moyne College
massetd@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: postmodernism, surrealism, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, American gothic, the Western.
Lloyd Mullins
BA, Indiana University East
mullinlb@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: novels, Russian Decembrist Revolution, 19th Century Buryat Mongol life/culture, American Civil War in the West, Indian wars, esp. Sand Creek Massacre and Nez Perce War, Johnson County War
Frenci Nguyen
BA, University of North Texas
nguyenfm@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: hermit crab essays, cultural identity, cultural diaspora, LGBT studies/issues, personal narrative essays, and memoirs
Kelsey Timmerman
BA, Miami University
timmerkw@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: globalization, agriculture, oral histories, and how writing can be used to build community
Brianna Verdugo-Chow
MA, California State University
BA, California State University
verdugb@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: ghosts, ghouls, and goblins; Karl Marx and the devil
Sofia Voet
BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
voetsc@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests:
Poetry MFA Students
Sara Baxter
MA, Indiana University East
BA, Indiana University East
baxters@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: 20th-century American poets and the New York School of Poetry
Ariel Clark-Semyck
BA, University of Notre Dame
semyckac@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: gurlesque and confessional poetry, gender studies, therapeutic writing, performance writing, camp, and parody
Nathan Hoil
BA, University of Iowa
hoiln@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests:
Hanna Litwinowicz
BA, SUNY Purchase College
litwinh@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: surreal poetry, persona poetry, and the intersection of the human and natural world
Jack Nachmanovitch
BA, Pratt
nachmaj@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: Poetries of excess, overflow, estrangement, new and old. Surreal writing. Experimental writing. Post-conceptual writing. Evolution, geology, cosmogony. Feedback loops between micro and macro.
Diego Nguyen
BS, Trinity University
nguye148@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: interlinks between myth and history with the modern, poetics of violence and persona poetry
Vanessa West
BA, Michigan State University
westz@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: relationships, intimacy, and nuance
Low Residency MFA Students: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry
Kari Arnett
BS, Manchester University
arnettkn@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: literary fantasy, young adult fantasy, poetry, creative nonfiction, technical writing, and digital marketing
Luke Durling
BA,Siena Heights University
durlinlh@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: poetry, pop culture, animation, integration of pop culture into poetry, normalization and recognition of fan-based writings and pop culture inspired pieces, free verse, confessional poetry, parody, poetry regarding disabled and/on underprivileged perspectives.
Kim Grier
BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
grierkc2@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: literary fiction, exploring dysfunctional family relationships, creative nonfiction, science, medicine, and hospice, and anything associated with the way society relates to death.
Bing Hinton
MD, Medical University of South Carolina
BA, Bucknell University
hintonr2@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: creative nonfiction, memoir, hybrid forms, narrative approaches
Andy Lindenfeld
BS, Miami University
lindena2@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: personal essays, literary journalism, fiction; particular interest in worldbuilding, discussing and unpacking mental health issues, and writing fantasy and science fiction (esp. for tabletop games)
David Scherer
BA, The Ohio State University
scheredm@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: writing novels and screenplays that tell the journey of complicated, human characters typically in science fiction and adult high fantasy. Exploring the possibilities of interactive storytelling using video games, where the player is the protagonist.
Whitney Shupert
BA, College of Wooster
shuperwe@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests:
Sally Ziph
MLS, University of Michigan
BA, University of Wisconsin
ziphsw@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: experimental poetry, the prose poem, flash fiction; with a particular interest in humor and surrealism