Graduate Faculty
Fiction
Joan Connor
Most Recent Book:
The World Before Mirrors,
Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Connor has published hundreds of stories and essays in an array of journals. Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons, won the AWP award for short fiction, and her collection of essays, The World Before Mirrors, won the River Teeth award.
Zakes Mda
Most Recent Book:
Cion,
Picador, 2007.
A novelist and playwright, Zakes has received every major South African prize for his work, which includes The Heart of Redness, Ways of Dying, She Plays with the Darkness, and most recently, Cion.
Nonfiction
Eric LeMay
Most Recent Book:
Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese,
Free Press, 2010.
LeMay is the author of Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese, and The One in the Many. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Harvard Review, The Paris Review, Gastronomica, Poetry Daily, and the Best Food Writing series.
Dinty W. Moore
Most Recent Book:
Between Panic and Desire,
University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Moore is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire and four other books. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Utne Reader, and many other venues.
Poetry
Mark Halliday
Most Recent Book:
Keep this Forever,
Tupelo Press, 2008.
Halliday is the author of five books of poetry, including Keep this Forever, Jab, Selfwolf, and Tasker Street. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Halliday has published numerous essays on contemporary poets.
J. Allyn Rosser
Most Recent Book:
Foiled Again: Poems,
Ivan R. Dee, 2007.
Rosser’s newest poetry collection, Foiled Again, won the 2007 New Criterion Poetry Prize. She has received other awards for her work, among them the Morse Poetry Prize, the Peter I. B. Lavan Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, the Crab Orchard Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Special Programs & Visiting Writers
David Wanczyk
Recent Publications in:
American Literary Review, The Awl, and Woolf Studies Annual.
Wanczyk is a graduate of OU's Ph.D program in nonfiction and has published essays, poems, and reviews in several journals, including Alimentum, Brevity, and Quarter After Eight. He coordinates the department's special programs, including the Spring Literary Festival and our visiting writers’ series.
