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MFA Faculty
Click on the audio links to hear MFA faculty readings from
Celebration of the Book, hosted by The UMSL Libraries,
Alumni Association, and Bookstore.
This reading took place January 21, 2005 in the Thomas
Jefferson Library Lobby.
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John Dalton (MFA
University of Iowa) is the author of Heaven
Lake, published
by Scribner, and the winner of the Barnes and Noble
2004 Discover Award.
Heaven
Lake was also awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize
for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. John’s short fiction has appeared
in Western Humanities Review, Story,
and Alaska Quarterly Review. He has received
a James Michener / Paul Engle fellowship, and fellowships
at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
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STEVEN SCHREINER
(MFA University of Iowa, Ph.D. Wayne State University)
is the author of Too Soon To Leave,
a book of poetry. His poems have appeared
in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review,
Malahat Review, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Poetry
Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Poet
and Critic, and other journals.
Several have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
He is the Founding Editor of Natural Bridge.More
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HOWARD SCHWARTZ
(MA Washington University) has published three
books of poems: Vessels, Gathering the Sparks,
and Sleepwalking Beneath the Stars, as
well as several books of fiction, including The
Captive Soul of the Messiah, Adam's Soul, and
The Four Who Entered Paradise. He
has also edited a four-volume set of Jewish folktales
for Oxford University Press. He has been
awarded a D.H.L. from the Spertus Institute of
Judaica. More
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Tree
of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
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NAN SWEET (PhD University of Michigan) has published two poetry chapbooks, Mix of Securities (2005) and Rotogravure (2006). Nan co-edited Breathing Out (2004), a collection by the St. Louis women’s poetry workshop, Loosely Identified, and guest-edited Natural Bridge 16 featuring Writing Responding to Women Writers. Her poems have appeared in Confrontation, Ascent, River Styx, Delmar, etc. Publishing widely on Romanticism, she co-edited Felicia Hermans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (2001).
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MARY TROY
(MFA University of Arkansas) is the author of
Cookie
Lily, 2004, The
Alibi Café and other
stories, 2003, and Joe
Baker Is Dead, 1998, which was nominated
for a PEN/Faulkner Award. She has published
stories widely in The Greensboro Review,
Sou'wester, The American Literary Review, Boulevard,
and the Chicago Tribune. She
won a Nelson Algren Award, and had thrice been
nominated for Pushcart Prizes. More
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Lily |
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EAMONN WALL
(Ph.D. City University of New York) is the author
of three collections of poetry: The
Crosses (2000), Iron
Mountain Road (1997), and Dyckman-200th
Street (1994). His book of personal
and literary essays, From
the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the
New Irish, was co-winner of the Durkan
Prize for 2000, given by the American Conference
for Irish Studies. Eamonn is a Jefferson Smurfit
Professor of Irish Studies at UMSL. |
Refuge
at DeSoto Bend
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