Creative Writing Faculty & Staff
Lisa Jane Ampleman Warren
Managing Editor, A&S English
369B McMicken Hall
Christopher H Bachelder
Professor, A&S English
350G McMicken Hall
John P. Drury
Professor
Books of Poems
Sea Level Rising, Able Muse Press, 2015
The Refugee Camp, Turning Point Books, 2011
Burning the Aspern Papers, Miami University Press, 2003
The Disappearing Town, Miami University Press, 2000
Chapbooks of Poems
The Stray Ghost, State Street Press, 1987
Fire in the Wax Museum, The Press at Colorado College, 1980
Books about Poetry
The Poetry Dictionary, revised second edition, Writer’s Digest Books, 2006
The Poetry Dictionary, Story Press, 1995
Creating Poetry, Writer’s Digest Books, 1991
Poems in the Following Magazines
Able Muse, The American Journal of Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Antioch Review, Ascent, The Baltimore Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, The Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia, Contemporary Ghazals, The Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, The Gettysburg Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Hudson Review, Inertia, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The Journal, Kansas Quarterly, Laurel Review, Light, The Literary Review, Main Street Rag, Measure, The Missouri Review, The New Republic, North American Review, Open Places, The Paris Review, Passager, Pequod, Phoebe, Ploughshares, Poet & Critic, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Now, Quarterly West, The Raintown Review, River Styx, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Shenandoah, Smartish Pace, Southern Indiana Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Sou’wester, Tampa Review, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse, Western Humanities Review, Willow Springs, and Xanadu
Narrative Prose
“My Mother’s Choice,” Alligator Juniper XXI (May 2017).
“Heading for a Total Eclipse,” Ploughshares Solos 3.8 (May 19, 2015) and reprinted in Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 3 (2015).
“Interrogator’s Guide,” The Evansville Review (Volume XXV, 2015).
“The House That She Designed,” The Gettysburg Review (Summer 2011).
Michael Griffith
Professor, A&S English
214C McMicken Hall
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 McMicken Hall
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 McMicken Hall
Rebecca K Lindenberg
Area Director of Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, A&S English
101C McMicken Hall
Aditi P Machado
Assistant Professor, A&S English
229D McMicken Hall
Some additional interests that make their way into my teaching and writing: Beowulf, Old English and Latin, television and cinema, cooking, walking, fashion, and the baroque.
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Denver, 2019
MFA, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2012
EMPLOYMENT
Assisant Professor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, 2020-present
(also: Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures)
Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Department of English, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2018-2020
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English & University Writing Program, University of Denver, 2016-2018
BOOKS
Emporium. Nightboat Books, 2020. James Laughlin Award 2019 from the Academy of American Poets. (Poetry Collection)
Some Beheadings. Nightboat Books, 2017. The Believer Poetry Award 2018. (Poetry Collection)
Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali. Action Books, 2016. (Hybrid Novel translated from the French)
CHAPBOOKS & PAMPHLETS
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)
More about my publications can be found at my personal website.
Matthew S O'Keefe
Associate Editor of The Cincinnati Review, A&S English
369 McMicken Hall
Michael Christopher Peterson
Program Coordinator, A&S English
McMicken Hall
James A Schiff
Professor, A&S English
229C McMicken Hall
Leah Stewart
Department Head, Professor, A&S English
248 McMicken Hall
Felicia Marie Zamora
Assistant Professor, A&S English
McMicken Hall