Introducing a new 15-credit hour Creative Writing Minor! Click on “Minor” for details.
Creative Writing courses for Fall 2009:
Kelcey Parker will teach W511 Graduate Fiction Writing and A190.
David Dodd Lee will teach W203 Intro to Creative Writing and W303 Advanced Poetry.
Nancy Botkin will teach A190: The Magic of Image.
Clayton Michaels will teach A190: Of (Super)Men and Myths: Writing for Comic Books.
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Here are profiles of IU South Bend faculty members who currently teach creative writing courses:
Nancy Botkin–W203 Intro to Creative Writing, A190 Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity: The Image
Nancy began teaching at IUSB in 1991 and is currently a senior lecturer in the English department. She teaches primarily freshman composition, but also teaches creative writing and, in Fall 2007, a new general education course, Art, Aesthetics & Creativity. Over the years, Nancy has been an active member of multiple committees that deal with developmental writing issues such as curriculum, course goals, textbook selection, handbook selection, and placement test. In 1999 she was awarded a TERA, Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.
In addition to teaching, Nancy is a working poet with publications in journals such as Poetry, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and American Literary Review. Her chapbook, Signs of Life, was published in 1999 by No Exit Press. Her full-length collection of poems, Parts That Were Once Whole, was published by Mayapple Press in April, 2007. She won the 2005 Maize First Place Poetry Prize sponsored by the Writers’ Center of Indiana. Her poem, “Geometry,” was selected by Ted Kooser for his national newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. She is currently at work on her second collection.
David Dodd Lee: W303/W513 Advanced and Graduate Poetry Writing, W203 Intro to Creative Writing; A190 Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity: Poetry
David is the Series Editor for IU South Bend’s new Wolfson Poetry Prize, which awards $1000 and book publication to the best full-length poetry manuscript. He is the author of the forthcoming collection The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2009),as well as four other books of poems–Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000), and Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues, 1997). Editor of the anthology SHADE, (versions 2004 & 2006), & poetry editor in the nineties at Third Coast & Passages North.
His poems have appeared on Verse Daily, in Nerve, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Jacket, Verse, Conduit, Marlboro Review, Perihelion, POOL, Laurel Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street,Best of the Net 2006 (Sundress Publications), Caffeine Destiny, Massachusetts Review, Washington Square, Slope, Quarterly West, Many Mountains Moving, Natural Bridge, Sycamore Review, Cutbank, etc. Fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Crowd, Sou’wester, & Controlled Burn. He has completed a book of Ashbery Erasure poems, Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, & two other full-length poetry manuscripts–The Coldest Winter on Earth, & A Small Thing But My Own. Also he’s the publisher of Half Moon Bay chapbooks, including titles by Hugh Seidman & Franz Wright.
Kelcey Parker–W615 Grad. Creative Nonfiction; W511 Graduate Fiction Writing; W301 Adv. Fiction Writing; W203 Intro to Creative Writing; A190 Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity
Kelcey has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati and has been teaching at IUSB since 2006. Her collection of stories, For Sale By Owner, is forthcoming in 2010 from Kore Press. Her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Image, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Western Humanities Review, and a number of other literary journals. She has recently completed a novel, Prague Spring, in which the narrator-cum-tour guide, Angela, interprets her own life through various events in the history of Prague.
Clayton Michaels–A190: Of (Super)Men and Myths: Writing for Comic Books.
I’m a teacher, poet, and all-around malcontent. My poems have appeared or will soon appear in Slipstream, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, LiteraryMary, Breadcrumb Scabs, Makeout Creek, and The Chiron Review. I’m happiest during baseball season and Wednesday afternoons on my way home from the comic book shop.
