Master of Fine Arts

Past and Present Visiting Writers

 

Visiting Faculty for Spring of 2012

Stacy Tintocalis – (MFA Iowa Writers' Workshop, PHD University of Missouri) has taught fiction writing and creative nonfiction writing for over ten years. Her debut short-story collection entitled "The Tiki King" was recently published by Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press. Currently she is completing a textbook that is under contract with Pearson Longman entitled How Fiction Works: From Scene to Story. Her fiction has won The Journal’s annual short-fiction award and the Santa Clara Review editor’s choice prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle, Crazyhorse, The Literary Review, Fiction, and Post Road, among others. http://stacytintocalis.weebly.com/index.html.

Howard Schwartz – (MA Washington University) is a widely regarded folklorist, author, poet, and editor of dozens of books. He has won the international Koret Jewish Book Award,[1] for the book "Before You Were Born", and won the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism.  He has published four books of poetry, most recently, "Breathing in the Dark".  http://www.umsl.edu/~schwartzh/


Current and Recent Visiting Writers / Poets in our UMSL Reading Series

Eric Puchner - is the author of the story collection "Music Through the Floor" and the novel "Model Home", which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a California Book Award for fiction.  His work has appeared in GQ, Tin House, Zoetrope: All Story, Best New American Voices,and Glimmer Train.  He has received a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.  He is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.   http://www.ericpuchner.com/index.html

Kevin Wilson - Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times Bestselling novel, "The Family Fang" (Ecco, 2011) and the story collection, "Tunneling to the Center of the Earth" (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award.  His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has appeared in four volumes of the New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best anthology. http://www.wilsonkevin.com/

Eric Pankey - Eric Pankey (M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1983) is the author of eight collections of poetry. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Antaeus, The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, New Republic, The New Yorker, The Quarterly, Shenandoah, and many others publications. Winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Pankey has received numerous grants supporting his work, including fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  http://www.ericpankey.com/ 

Other recent visiting writers and poets:

Fiction: Andrew Foster Altschul, Ethan Canin, Tony D’Souza , John Dufresne, Margot Livesey, Erin McGraw 

Poetry:  Carl Dennis, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones , Joy Katz, Randall Mann, Adrian Matejka
 Arthur Sze

Non-fiction: Gary Geddes