University of North Texas 
UNT Faculty ProfileBruce Bond, Ph.D. (University of Denver, 1987)Regents Professor
bond@unt.edu 213A AuditoriumBruce Bond is the author of fifteen books, most recently Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy (Etruscan, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (LSU, 2008). His forthcoming books include For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, University of Tampa Press), Gold Bee (Crab Orchard Open Competition Prize, University of Southern Illinois Press), Sacrum (Four Way Books), The Other Sky (poems in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfeld, intro by Stephen Dunn; Etruscan Press), and a book of literary criticism: Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (University of Michigan). He has won numerous recognitions for his poems, including the Allen Tate Award, the TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Knightville Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. At UNT, he has won the Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching, the Toulouse Scholars Award, the Creative Impact Award, and the inaugural Eminent Faculty Award. Presently he is poetry co-editor for American Literary Review and co-judge for the annual Rilke Book Award.
UNT Faculty ProfileB.H. Fairchild, Ph.D. (University of Tulsa, 1975)
Professor Emeritus
Bertram.Fairchild@unt.eduDr. B. H. Fairchild's most recent book, Usher (Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection of poetry. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has earned numerous awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the Arthur Rense Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the California Book Award, the PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, and The Sewanee Review. He is also the author of Such Holy Song: Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake.
Professor Emeritus
Bertram.Fairchild@unt.eduDr. B. H. Fairchild's most recent book, Usher (Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection of poetry. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has earned numerous awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the Arthur Rense Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the California Book Award, the PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, and The Sewanee Review. He is also the author of Such Holy Song: Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake.
Personal Website Bonnie Friedman, M.F.A. (University of Iowa, 1984)
Associate Professor
bonita.friedman@unt.edu 206B AuditoriumBonnie Friedman writes both creative nonfiction--focusing on the personal essay and memoir--and fiction. She is the author of the Village Voice bestseller Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life (HarperCollins), which has been anthologized in six different writing textbooks. She is also the author of the memoir The Thief of Happiness (Beacon). Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and magazines including O. The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, The Ladies Home Journal and Self. Her writing has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best of O., The Oprah Magazine.
Associate Professor
bonita.friedman@unt.edu 206B AuditoriumBonnie Friedman writes both creative nonfiction--focusing on the personal essay and memoir--and fiction. She is the author of the Village Voice bestseller Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life (HarperCollins), which has been anthologized in six different writing textbooks. She is also the author of the memoir The Thief of Happiness (Beacon). Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and magazines including O. The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, The Ladies Home Journal and Self. Her writing has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best of O., The Oprah Magazine.
UNT Faculty Profile Corey Marks, Ph.D. (University of Houston, 2000)Distinguished Teaching Professor | Director of Creative Writing
coreymarks@att.net 214 Auditorium 940-565-2126Corey Marks is the author of The Radio Tree (New Issues Press, 2012), winner of the Green Rose Prize, and Renunciation (University of Illinois Press, 2000), a National Poetry Series selection. His poems have appeared in New England Review, The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute for Letters, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review.
Personal Website Ann McCutchan, M.F.A. (University of Houston, 1998)
Associate Professor
annmmc@earthlink.net 216 AuditoriumAnn McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994), The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999), Circular Breathing: Meditations from a Musical Life (Sunstone, 2011) and River Music: An Atchafalaya Story (TAMU Press, 2011). Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as Boulevard, Image, Cimarron Review and The Best American Spiritual Writing. Ann has received grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Vogelstein Foundation, the National Park Service, Lancaster Theological Seminary, and others. Her current book project is titled Of Earth and Sky: A Personal History of Florida's Space Coast.
UNT Faculty Profile
Associate Professor
annmmc@earthlink.net 216 AuditoriumAnn McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994), The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999), Circular Breathing: Meditations from a Musical Life (Sunstone, 2011) and River Music: An Atchafalaya Story (TAMU Press, 2011). Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as Boulevard, Image, Cimarron Review and The Best American Spiritual Writing. Ann has received grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Vogelstein Foundation, the National Park Service, Lancaster Theological Seminary, and others. Her current book project is titled Of Earth and Sky: A Personal History of Florida's Space Coast.
UNT Faculty ProfilePersonal Website Miroslav Penkov, M.F.A. (University of Arkansas, 2009)
Associate Professor | Editor, American Literary Review
miroslav.penkov@unt.edu 213B AuditoriumMiroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to America in 2001 and eventually completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. Published in over a dozen countries, his debut collection East of the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) was a finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish his first novel, Stork Mountain, in March 2016. In 2014-15 he was the literature protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, working with mentor Michael Ondaatje. He is currently editor-in-chief of American Literary Review.
UNT Faculty ProfileBarbara Rodman, Ph.D. (University of Denver, 1985)
Associate Professor | Associate Department Chair
brodman@unt.edu 112 Auditorium 940-565-2850Dr. Barbara Rodman specializes in contemporary short fiction; she has published in a variety of literary journals including Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Dickinson Review and others. She is past editor of the Katherine Anne Porter series in short fiction and is currently co-editor of fiction for the American Literary Review. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in fiction as well as Form and Theory of Prose.
UNT Faculty ProfileJohn Tait, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 2002)
Associate Professor
tait@unt.edu 206A AuditoriumJohn Tait specializes in creative writing (fiction writing) as well as post World War II American fiction and film. His short stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere and have been reprinted in New Stories from the Southwest and cited in Best American Short Stories. He has been the recipient of Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Writers and has also received the Tobias Wolff Fiction Award as well as first prize in the H. E. Francis Literary Competition, the Dogwood Fiction Awards and the River City Fiction Awards. He is currently at work on a novel, Poplar Crescent.
UNT Faculty Profile Jill Talbot, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jill.Talbot@unt.eduDr. Jill Talbot specializes in the personal essay, memoir, and genre-defying work. She is the author of The Way We Weren't: A Memoir (Soft Skull, 2015) and Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal, 2007). She co-edited The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together (U of Texas, 2008) and edited Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa, 2012). Her essays have appeared in such journals asBrevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, The Normal School, Passages North, The Paris Review Daily, The Pinch, Seneca Review, and listed in the Notable Essays section of Best American Essays 2014. She is also the nonfiction editor for BOAAT Press.
Associate Professor | Editor, American Literary Review
miroslav.penkov@unt.edu 213B AuditoriumMiroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to America in 2001 and eventually completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. Published in over a dozen countries, his debut collection East of the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) was a finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish his first novel, Stork Mountain, in March 2016. In 2014-15 he was the literature protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, working with mentor Michael Ondaatje. He is currently editor-in-chief of American Literary Review.
UNT Faculty ProfileBarbara Rodman, Ph.D. (University of Denver, 1985)Associate Professor | Associate Department Chair
brodman@unt.edu 112 Auditorium 940-565-2850Dr. Barbara Rodman specializes in contemporary short fiction; she has published in a variety of literary journals including Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Dickinson Review and others. She is past editor of the Katherine Anne Porter series in short fiction and is currently co-editor of fiction for the American Literary Review. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in fiction as well as Form and Theory of Prose.
UNT Faculty ProfileJohn Tait, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 2002)Associate Professor
tait@unt.edu 206A AuditoriumJohn Tait specializes in creative writing (fiction writing) as well as post World War II American fiction and film. His short stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere and have been reprinted in New Stories from the Southwest and cited in Best American Short Stories. He has been the recipient of Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Writers and has also received the Tobias Wolff Fiction Award as well as first prize in the H. E. Francis Literary Competition, the Dogwood Fiction Awards and the River City Fiction Awards. He is currently at work on a novel, Poplar Crescent.
UNT Faculty Profile Jill Talbot, Ph.D.Visiting Assistant Professor
Jill.Talbot@unt.eduDr. Jill Talbot specializes in the personal essay, memoir, and genre-defying work. She is the author of The Way We Weren't: A Memoir (Soft Skull, 2015) and Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal, 2007). She co-edited The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together (U of Texas, 2008) and edited Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa, 2012). Her essays have appeared in such journals asBrevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, The Normal School, Passages North, The Paris Review Daily, The Pinch, Seneca Review, and listed in the Notable Essays section of Best American Essays 2014. She is also the nonfiction editor for BOAAT Press.