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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Poetry Faculty
Corrine Clegg Hales is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Separate Escapes, winner of the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002). Her previous books are Out of This Place (March Street Press, 2001), January Fire (Devil's Millhopper Press), and Underground (Ahsahta Press). Her poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and many other journals. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and won first place in the River Styx Poetry Prize for 2000.
Tim Skeen earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1993. His collection, Kentucky Swami, is the winner of the John Ciardi Prize and was published in 2001 by BkMk Press at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His poems have appeared in such journals as New Letters, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, and the Antioch Review. He has received a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology at the 10th Annual Conference on College Teaching and Learning.
Fiction Faculty
Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in suburban Los Angeles. He has worked as a used appliance salesman, a cashier and egg candler on a chicken ranch, and a retail manager while pursuing his BA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. He went on to earn his MFA in Writing from the University of California, Irvine, and served as the editor of their literary journal, Faultline. His first novel, Still Water Saints (Random House, 2007), which has been released simultaneously in Spanish, has been named a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection for Spring, 2007. Alex is currently at work on his next novel.
Creative Nonfiction Faculty
John Hales has published essays in numerous journals and anthologies, including Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Southern Review, Hudson Review, Ascent, and On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors. His work has been cited numerous times in Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing, and has twice been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors Prize. He was recently awarded a Pushcart Prize. His book, Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West was published in 2005 by the University of Missouri Press.
Steven Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record (Simon & Schuster, 2005), and won the 2005 Colorado Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. He was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned his BA in Philosophy at the University of Kansas and his MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. His essays and stories have been published in or are forthcoming from the Colorado Review, North American Review, Interim, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Post Road, Quarterly West, and others. His work has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.