One of the first universities in the country to offer a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, Ohio University continues as home to a thriving, widely respected graduate program with an award-winning faculty with expertise in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Our Creative Writing Faculty
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Patrick O'Keeffe — FictionO'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.
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Casey Plett — FictionCasey Plett is the author of the books On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, the feature-length script So Rachel Might Leave the City, and the screen adaptation for Little Fish. She is the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers and the Publisher at LittlePuss Press. Her work has won the Amazon First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and the Firecracker Award for Fiction. Casey is originally from the Canadian Prairies, Treaty 1 Territory.
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Eric LeMay — NonfictionLeMay 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.
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Mark Halliday — PoetryHalliday 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.
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David Wanczyk — Special Programs & Visiting WritersWanczyk 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.
Our Literary Journals
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New Ohio ReviewNew Ohio Review is a nationally recognized literary journal featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, features, and interviews published by Ohio University's English Department.
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Quarter After EightQuarter After Eight is devoted to the exploration of innovative writing. We celebrate work that directly challenges the conventions of language, style, voice, or idea in literary forms.
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SphereSphere Magazine is Ohio University's only undergraduate literary magazine, publishing student fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. The student organization is run by students, for students.
Our Annual Spring Literary Festival
Faculty in the News
David Wanczyk: Breaking Barriers with Beep Baseball
Wanczyk partnered with the U.S. Embassy and embarked on an inspiring trip to Senegal, where he taught poetry classes and introduced beep baseball.