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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of English

Zachariah McVicker

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Contact Information

EB 315

Office Hours

SP 2025: Monday, 1-2pm
Senior Lecturer

Biography

Zachariah McVicker received his MFA in Poetry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. He has published poems in the Birmingham Poetry Review as well as 32 Poems, and has been anthologized in Best New Poetry from the Midwest - 2014.  Prose has appeared in Ninth Letter  and online for 32 Poemsa nd The Volta Blog. In 2014, his poetry was  selected by Roger Reeves for the Carol Kyle Award for Poetry at UIUC. He is the Editor of Ninth Letter's Web Editions for Summer 2024 and previous summer editions

Education

MFA: Poetry (2016)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL


BA: English (2012)
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

 

Awards and Honors

English Department Undergraduate Teaching Award 

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students:
Fall 2014, Spring 2015, FA2015, SP2016, FA2017, SP2018, FA2018, SP2019

Carol Kyle Award for Poetry, judged by Roger Reeves, 2014

 

Courses Taught

BTW250
BTW250 OL
BTW 279
BTW285

CW100
CW106
CW200
CW243
CW455
CW460

RHET 101
RHET 102
RHET105

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of English

608 South Wright Street

MC-718

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-2391

Email: english@illinois.edu

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