cwri faculty

Visiting Writers--Fall 2004

Robyn Art will be teaching WRI 206-01 in the fall. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University in 2003. Her chapbook of poems, Degrees of Being There, was a finalist for the Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared widely in such journals as Convergence, The New Delta Review, Conduit, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Green Hills Literary Review, The Cream City Review, and many others. Robyn has taught creative writing and English at New Jersey City University and NYU, and she's been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Her work was also included in "Spontaneous Art" and "Peaceworks," two mixed-media exhibits at the Times Square Lobby Gallery, NYC, as well as in "Crossing Borders," an improvisational concert performed by the Newcastle University Opera House in Newcastle, Australia. Robyn Art lives in Brooklyn. If you'd like to read one of Robyn's poems, click here.

Amy Benson will be teaching WRI 206-02 and -03 in the fall. Amy earned her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Alabama in 1996. Her memoir, The Sparkling Eyed Boy, is just out from Houghton Mifflin. The book was chosen by Ted Conover as the winner of the 3003 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize in Creative Nonfiction, sponsored by Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Her work (both prose and poetry) has appeared in Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Connecticut Review, Literal Latte, Quarterly West, Fourth Genre, among others. Amy has taught creative writing and English at Northwest Missouri State University, Rutgers University, and The University of Alabama. She's also a former coeditor of the literary magazine, The Laurel Review. Amy Benson lives in New York City. If you'd like to read Amy's work, click here.

Dan Pope will be teaching WRI 306 and 406 in the fall. Dan earned his MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Iowa in 2002. His first novel, In the Cherry Tree, was published in 2003 by Picador. His short fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Witness, Descant, and elsewhere. He taught fiction workshops at Iowa and was the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Award, a fellowship sponsored by the International Institute of Modern Letters, the highest award given the the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Dan makes his home in West Hartford, CT, and is currently at work a second novel. If you'd like to find out more about Dan Pope or read his work, click here.

Cathy Day’s short-story cycle, The Circus in Winter, is forthcoming from Harcourt (Summer 2004). Other work has been published in New Stories from the South, Story, and Shenandoah.

Lahna Diskin has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her poems have appeared in Santa Barbara Review, Third Wind, and The English Journal, among others. She is a former chair of the TCNJ English Department.

Frank Hannold has taught screenwriting at TCNJ for many years. He is also the advisor to The Lion’s Eye, one of TCNJ’s student literary magazines.

Lincoln Konkle has published work in Scrivener, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. His critical interests include the work of Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder, and Edward Albee.

Catie Rosemurgy’s book of poetry, My Favorite Apocalypse, was published in 2001 by Graywolf Press. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.