Creative Writing Faculty & Staff
Lisa Jane Ampleman Warren
Managing Editor, A&S English
369B ARTSCI
Chris Bachelder
Professor, Director of Creative Writing, A&S English
101C ARTSCI
Michael Griffith
Professor, A&S English
214C ARTSCI
Griffith's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, New England Review, Five Points, Oxford American, Pleiades, Salmagundi, Golf World, Shenandoah, and many other periodicals, and his puzzles--crosswords, acrostics, and hink pinks--have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, and in other places. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (2007-08), the National Endowment for the Arts (2004), the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2001), the Louisiana Division of the Arts (2001), and others. Griffith was founding editor of the Yellow Shoe Fiction series for Louisiana State University Press (2005-2021) and Fiction Editor of Cincinnati Review. Griffith was the recipient in 2005 of the English Department's Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, and in 2012 he was awarded UC's university-wide Doctoral Mentoring Award. Since 2013 he has been a Fellow of the Graduate School.
Jennifer L Habel
Coordinator of Creative Writing, A&S English
101B ARTSCI
Jennifer Habel is the author of two full-length poetry collections—The Book of Jane, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition—and a chapbook, In the Little House, which won the Copperdome Prize. Her writing has received three Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, and has appeared in journals such as The Sewanee Review, The Believer, Gettysburg Review, and Gulf Coast.
Kristen Iversen
Professor, A&S English
214B ARTSCI
Rebecca K Lindenberg
Area Director of Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, A&S English
248 ARTSCI
Aditi P Machado
Assoc Professor, A&S English
229D ARTSCI
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, 2023-
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages & LIteratures, 2020-
Assisant Professor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, 2020-2023
Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Department of English, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2018-2020
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Denver, 2019
MFA, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2012
BOOKS
Emporium. Nightboat Books, 2020. James Laughlin Award 2019 from the Academy of American Poets.
Emporio. Slimbook Editorial [Argentina], 2022. (translation into Spanish by Guadalupe Alfaro and Tomás Fadel)
Some Beheadings. Nightboat Books, 2017. The Believer Poetry Award 2018.
Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali. Action Books, 2016. (novel translated from the French)
CHAPBOOKS & PAMPHLETS
now. Sputnik & Fizzle, 2022. (poetry)
The End. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020. (essay)
Rhapsody. Albion Books, 2020. (poetry)
Prologue | Emporium. Garden-Door Press, 2018. (poetry)
This Touch. Belladonna*, 2018. (essay)
Route: Marienbad. Further Other Book Works, 2016. (poetry)
The Robing of the Bride. Dzanc Books, 2013. The Collagist Chapbook Contest, 2012. (poetry)
Selected journal publications are listed on my personal website.
Matthew S O'Keefe
Associate Editor of The Cincinnati Review, A&S English
369 ARTSCI
Michael Christopher Peterson
Asst Professor - Research, A&S English
ARTSCI
Research interests include twentieth century avant garde poetries, postwar mimeograph and print culture, lyric acoustics and psychoacoustics, alignments of audio technologies, recording techniques, and lyric innovation in the twentieth century, archival praxis, participatory curation, and oral history.
James A Schiff
Professor, A&S English
229C ARTSCI
Felicia Marie Zamora
Assoc Professor, A&S English
ARTSCI