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On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Ohio University Creative Writing Program hosts Visiting Poet Claire Bateman for a reading at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel. A reception follows the event, which is free and open to the public. Bateman’s books include Scape (New Issues Poetry & Prose), Locals: A Collection of […]

On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Ohio University Creative Writing Program hosts Visiting Poet Claire Bateman, for a reading at 7:30 p.m., at Galbreath Chapel.* By Morgan Cappel, intern for the Office of Special Programs The poet Claire Bateman’s most recent collection of poetry, Scape, is enamored of the world. For her, […]

  Priyadarshini Gupta‘s doctoral work on literary representations of Islam in the post-9/11 world took her to the New York Public Library this summer. A doctoral student of English, Gupta was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]

Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life and The Object Parade. She serves as the senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Lenney will give a reading […]

by Kristin M. Distel Elizabeth Tran, a doctoral student in creative writing at Ohio University, has won Prairie Schooner’s 2016 Summer Nonfiction Contest for her essay “Miss Saigon.” Tran’s essay discusses her mother’s experience of escaping the Vietnam War, as well as Tran’s personal and familial experience of surviving Hurricane […]

Dr. Linda J. Rice, Professor of English and Director of the Master of Arts in English Online for High School Teachers, presented at the Lilly National Conference in Traverse City, MI, in October. The conference covers areas such as: community is cornerstone to improved student learning; participants are life-long learners; […]

Kelly Sundberg, a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University, worked on an upcoming memoir on her trip to Belgium, where she participated in an artist’s residency. She was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]