Fiction
Patrick O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe's collection of long stories, The Hill Road (Viking Penguin), received the 2005 Story Prize. He was a Barnes and Noble Discovery pick and received a Whiting Award for fiction writing. His work has appeared in the Irish Times, Doubletake, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. A novel, The Visitors (Viking Penguin), was published in 2013.
Nonfiction
Eric LeMay
LeMay is the author of Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese , and The One in the Many . His work has appeared in The Nation , The Harvard Review , The Paris Review , Gastronomica , Poetry Daily , and the Best Food Writing series.
Poetry
Mark Halliday
Halliday is the author of five books of poetry, including Keep this Forever , Jab , Selfwolf , and Tasker Street . A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Halliday has published numerous essays on contemporary poets.
Special Programs & Visiting Writers
David Wanczyk
Wanczyk is a graduate of Ohio University's Ph.D program in nonfiction and has published essays, poems, and reviews in several journals, including Alimentum , Brevity , and Quarter After Eight . He coordinates the department's special programs, including the Spring Literary Festival and visiting writers? series.