Author Archive
It is with great joy that we announce the 2020-2021 Grisham Writer-in-Residence: Maurice Ruffin!
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was published by One World Random House. The novel is a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work […]
Dr. Aimee Nezhukumatathil Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
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2019 Creative Writing Award Winners Announced!
2019 Writing Award Winners! EVANS HARRINGTON CREATIVE WRITING SCHOLARSHIP Andrew J. Hill, fiction. $2,000 scholarship. Judge, Linda Masi Read Andrew’s submission “The Guard” HERE. ELLA SOMERVILLE CONTEST Dustin Wright, poetry. $200 prize. Judge, Michael Martella Read Dustin’s submission “The Flood” HERE. Blake Pratt, fiction. $200 prize. Judge, Sarah Huddleston Read Blake’s submission “Lap of the Gods” HERE. […]
Sarah Margaret Pittman
B.S.B.A., Finance, University of Arkansas Research interests include Victorian literature, gender studies, Gothic literature, political economy smpittma@go.olemiss.edu
Joshua Nguyen
he/him/his M.F.A., The University of Mississippi B.S.A., The University of Texas at Austin Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, hybrid historial retellings, and the contemporary quotidian www.joshua-nguyen.com
Stuart Mullet
Stuart Mullet B.A. in English from Grace College Research interests include mid-20th century Southern literature, particularly texts by women writers, the body in literature, disability studies, and environmental criticism
Elisa Bryant
B.A., The University of Mary Washington 19th-Century American literature, specifically female writers, Women and Gender Studies, and Film theory and criticism