Faculty

Michael Blumenthal | Luisa A. Igloria | John McManus | Michael Pearson
Janet Peery | Sheri Reynolds | Tim Seibles

Michael Blumenthal

Michael Blumenthal's seventh book of poems, And, will be published in early 2009. He is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers, the novel Weinstock Among The Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, and a collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House.

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Luisa A. Igloria

(previously published as Maria Luisa Aguilar-Cariño)
Poetry and Nonfiction; Associate Professor (tenured); author of 10 books including most recently Juan Luna's Revolver (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize); Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005; Co-Winner, 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry); Encanto (Anvil, 2004); and In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995).

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John McManus

John McManus is the author of the novel Bitter Milk and two collections of short fiction, Born on a Train and Stop Breakin Down. Born in Knoxville and raised in Maryville, Tennessee, he has been the recipient of fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers and the Camargo Foundation. In 2000 he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award.

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Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson is the author of the books Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America (A New York Times Notable Book of 1992), Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999), Innocents Abroad Too (2008) and the novel Shohola Falls (2003). He has written dozens of essays and reviews for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Southern Journal, Creative Nonfiction, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has taught on two Semester at Sea voyages around the world and led three travel writing summer study abroad programs in Europe.

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Janet Peery

A finalist for the National Book Award in l996, Janet Peery is the author of Alligator Dance, The River Beyond the World, and What the Thunder Said. Her stories appear in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Southwest Review, Chattahoochee Review, Black Warrior Review, Southern Review, Pushcart Prize anthologies, Best American Short Stories l993, and others. A fellow of the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, she has been the recipient of the Whiting Award and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Sheri Reynolds

Sheri Reynolds is the author of the novels Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (a #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Bookclub selection), A Gracious Plenty Firefly Cloak and The Sweet In-Between. Her play Orabelle's Wheelbarrow won the Women Playwrights' Initiative Award in 2005 and was produced by Orlando Repertory Theatre.

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Tim Seibles

poetry, author of Body Moves, Hammerlock, and Buffalo Head Solos among others

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