Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Bios of College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Writers

Reading, Thursday, September 13, 2007, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. He is author of nine books of fiction, recently a novel, Five Skies (Viking) and his selected stories, A Kind of Flying (W.W. Norton). Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he directs the MFA in Fiction Program.

Reading, Thursday, September 27, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Gary Gildner

Gary Gildner, who has won two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, received the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize, and won the Robert Frost fellowship. Gildner has also given readings of his work at the Library of Congress, lectured in both Poland and Czechoslovakia, has been writing for over 40 years, and published 20 books, including Somewhere Geese are Flying: New and Selected Stories (Michigan State University Press) and Blue Like the Heavens (Pitt Poetry Series).

Reading, Thursday, October 18, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Judith Mitchell

Judith Mitchell is author of a novel, The Last Day of the War (Pantheon). Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Stories and Scribners’ The Best of the Fiction Workshop. She has been awarded the James Michener/Copernicus Society of America Prize, the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an Artist's Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also Director of the MFA program.

Reading, Thursday, January 24, 2008, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Tony Barnstone

Tony Barnstone, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer, will read. For biographical information, click here.

Reading, Thursday, February 14, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Tony Barnstone

Tony Barnstone, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer, will lecture. For biographical information, click here.

Reading, Thursday, March 20, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Martha Collins

Martha Collins is author of Blue Front (Graywolf) Press, a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old in Cairo, Illinois, as well as four collections of poems, two books of co-translations from the Vietnamese, and a recent chapbook of poems. Her awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Witter Bynner Foundation. Collins founded the Creative Writing Program at UMass-Boston, and since 1997 has taught at Oberlin College, where she is Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and one of the editors of FIELD magazine and Oberlin College Press.