Creative Writing Faculty & Staff
Lisa Jane Ampleman Warren
Managing Editor, A&S English
369B ARTSCI
Lisa Ampleman is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Romances (LSU Press, forthcoming in 2020) and Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013), as well as the chapbook I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State UP, 2012). Her poems have appeared recently in journals such as Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, 32 Poems, Image, and Southern Review, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is managing editor of the Cincinnati Review and poetry series editor at Acre Books.
Chris Bachelder
Director of Creative Writing, A&S English
350G ARTSCI
Chris Bachelder is the author of four novels, including The Throwback Special, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize. Dayswork, a novel written collaboratively with Jennifer Habel, is forthcoming in 2023. Bachelder has taught fiction writing at UC since 2011.
Michael Griffith
Professor, A&S English
214C ARTSCI
Michael Griffith's books of fiction are Spikes (Arcade, 2001), Bibliophilia (Arcade, 2003), and Trophy (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011), which was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books for that year. His book of nonfiction, The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell, appeared from the University of Cincinnati Press in 2021. He is working on a novel tentatively called Grimster & the Cruciverbalist.
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.
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
Kristen Iversen holds a Ph.D in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver (1996). She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literary nonfiction and fiction, and also serves as Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review and faculty editor of the undergraduate journal Short Vine. Her work includes the books Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012, paperback/audio 2013; selected by universities around the country for their First Year Experience/Common Read programs); Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth (1999, third edition 2018); Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (2004); and two edited anthologies, Doom with a View (2020) and Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen (2020). Essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others. Several documentaries have been based on her work, including a new documentary Full Body Burden (forthcoming 2023) and an option for a tv series. In 2020-2021, she was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar for the University of Bergen, Norway (temporarily postponed due to Covid). Forthcoming books are Friend and Faithful Stranger: Nikola Tesla in the Gilded Age and Wide and Generous World: New and Published Essays. See www.kristeniversen.com
Rebecca K Lindenberg
Area Director of Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, A&S English
248 ARTSCI
Rebecca Lindenberg is a poet, essayist, translator, and literary editor. She is the author of Love, an Index (McSweeney's) and The Logan Notebooks (Mountain West Poetry Series), winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award. Her work also appears in many national magazines and literary journals including POETRY, The Believer, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Seneca Review, Iowa Review, and many more. She is the recipient of several grants and awards including an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, a seven-month fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and residencies at the MacDowell Arts Colony, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a writer, she is the Poetry Editor of the Cincinnati Review.
Aditi P Machado
Assistant Professor, A&S English
229D ARTSCI
I am a poet, translator, and scholar whose work draws on translation and transnational literatures; experimental writing methods; historical prosodies and theories of the sentence. While I read across time periods, my research tends to focus on twentieth- and twenty-first century US and transnational poetries with particular emphases on global avant-gardes; the poetry of philosophy; literatures of migration and displacement; ecocriticism; serial/longform poetics; literatures of witness and documentary poetics; and the haptic.
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.
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 ARTSCI
Michael Christopher Peterson
Asst Professor - Research, A&S English
ARTSCI
James A Schiff
Professor, A&S English
229C ARTSCI
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Jim Schiff received his B.A. from Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. He is the author or editor of five books on contemporary American fiction, including John Updike Revisited, Understanding Reynolds Price, Updike's Version: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter, and Updike in Cincinnati. He was named by the John H. Updike Literary Trust to edit a volume of Updike's letters, which will be published in 2022. His essays and interviews have appeared in American Literature, Critique, Missouri Review, Southern Review, South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Fiction, Tin House, and elsewhere. He reviews books for newspapers, magazines and journals, and serves as the editor of the John Updike Review as well as a consulting editor of Critique and Philip Roth Studies. He has served on various boards, including the Duke University Trinity Board of Visitors, the University of Cincinnati Foundation, The Seven Hills School, the Community Learning Center Institute (CLCI), WCET-TV, and the Mercantile Library.
Felicia Marie Zamora
Asst Professor, A&S English
ARTSCI
Felicia Zamora (she/her/hers) is a poet, educator, and editor. She is the author of six books of poetry including, Quotient (Tinderbox Editions, 2022), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in poetry, Body of Render, Benjamin Saltman Award winner (Red Hen Press, 2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press),and Of Form & Gather, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, and Tin House. She won the 2020 C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Guernica, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, West Branch, and others. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review.