Current Creative Writing Grad Students
Creative Nonfiction and Fiction MFA Students
Matthew Boyarsky
BA, Bloomsburg State College
boyarsmj@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: short fiction, flash fiction, magic realism, humor, and gender studies
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
Samuel Gutelle
BA, Northwestern University
gutellsm@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: digital media, internet-age issues, narrative journalism, historical studies, cultural curiosities, and food writing
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
Chris Murphy
BA, Lafayette College
murph109@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: the short story, war writing, medical humanities
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
Louisa Pavlik
BA, Loras College
pavlikln@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: investigative & immersion journalism, humor, political & social commentary, memoir
Jen Sammons
M.Ed, Antioch University
BA, Ohio Wesleyan University
sammonjh@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: creative/literary nonfiction, lyric essay, hybrid forms, poetry, sound writing, writing as activism, and critical pedagogy
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
AZ Zahoor
BA, Forman Christian College
zahoora@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: narrative stylistics; prose poem; rhetoric of fiction; poetics of Charles Baudelaire
Poetry MFA Students
Sarah 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
Dylan Ecker
BA, The Ohio State University
eckerdj@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: Spliced+chopped form, contemporary Japanese poetry, orogenesis, love letters, video game discourse, ornithological onomatopoeia, the temperature of language
Nathan Hoil
BA, University of Iowa
hoiln@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests:
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.
Trevor Root
BA, Duquesne University
roott@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: experimental poetry, procedural poetics, radical politics and philosophy, and film studies
Low Residency MFA Students: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry
Letta Cartlidge
BA, St. Olaf College
cartlile@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: nonfiction, fiction and poetry
Tyler Elston
BA, Cleveland State University
elstontr@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: contemporary fantasy, historical fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, and young adult fiction; with interest in societal and cultural expectations and character psychology
Ray Engle
M.Ed, Wright State University
BA, Wright State University
englerb@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: horror, realistic fiction, memoir, young adult fiction, travel writing
Brian Frazier
MA, Wayne State University
BA, Oakland University
frazieb@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: writing fiction with a poetic slant; grey characters, and exploring beauty and individuals within more economically depressed areas/neighborhoods
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
Jordan King
kingj4@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: Sci-fi, transgressive fiction, horror and absurdism
Scott Krave
Matthew Ludwig
BS, US Military Academy, West Point
ludwigma@MiamiOH.edu
Andy Lindenfeld
BS, Miami University
lindena2@MiamiOH.edu
Roy Nickerson
nickerrc@MiamiOH.edu
Whitney Shupert
BA, College of Wooster
shuperwe@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests:
John Spiegel
BS, Cedarville College
spiegejc@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: poetry, fiction, prose poetry, and creative nonfiction. Finding the beautiful and poetic within the mundane and everyday.
Andrea Surova
BA, Boston College
surovaal@MiamiOH.edu
Creative and Research Interests: historical fiction and literary fantasy, songwriting, foreign language acquisition, early child development, and the history of communism and Eastern Europe
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
