Faculty
Fiction
Gary Fincke, Ph.D., Kent State University Writers Workshop coordinator, is the Writers Workshop coordinator and director of the Writers’ Institute at Susquehanna University. He is winner of the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the 2003 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize. Fincke has twenty-one books in print, including The Fire Landscape (poems), 2008; Standing around the Heart (poems), 2005: Sorry I Worried You (stories), 2004; Amp'd (nonfiction), 2004; The Stone Child (stories), 2003; Writing Letters for the Blind (poems), 2003; Blood Ties (poems), 2002; and Emergency Calls (stories), 1996.
Full Profile
Tom Bailey, Ph.D., SUNY at Binghamton; M.F.A., the Iowa Writers’ Workshops, teaches creative writing at Susquehanna University. Tom Bailey's first novel, The Grace that Keeps this World, was published as a Shaye Areheart book in the fall of 2005. Cotton Song was published in the fall of 2006. He is the author of Crow Man, a collection of short stories, and two books from Oxford University Press, A Short Story Writer's Companion (2001) and On Writing Short Stories (2000). The Grace that Keeps this World earned him the 2006 Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Prize.
Creative Nonfiction
Glen Retief, Ph.D., Florida State University; M.F.A., University of Miami, joins Susquehanna from Eastern Kentucky University, where he taught introductory writing and English courses and creative nonfiction. Building upon his publications of short stories, essays, and articles, Retief is developing a memoir from The Chameleon's Home Country, a collection of personal essays about art, literature, politics, apartheid, and sexuality.
Poetry
Karla Kelsey, Ph.D., University of Denver; M.F.A., University of Iowa, teaches poetry writing, editing and publishing, and related courses at Susquehanna University. Kelsey’s book of poetry, Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, was chosen by Carolyn Forche to win the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. The book was published by Ahsahta Press in early 2006. Also the author of the chapbook Little Dividing Doors in the Mind (Noemi Press 2005). From 2003 --05 she was Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly. Her new collection of poems, Iteration Nets, will be published in 2010, by Boise State University's Ahsahta Press.
Guest Writers
Rebecca Warner, M.F.A., Bennington College, is the author of a poetry collection, Northwest Passage (Orchises Press, 2005), and has published in periodicals including The Worcester Review, Notre Dame Review, and The Writer's Chronicle. A former Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University, she currently teaches in the English and Creative Writing Department at Susquehanna.
Susan Perabo, M.F.A., University of Arkansas, has published a collection of short stories, Who I Was Supposed to Be (Simon & Schuster, 1999), and a novel, The Broken Places (2001). Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and New Stories from the South and have appeared in Story, Glimmer Train, and Triquarterly. She currently teaches creative writing at Dickinson College.
