Creative Writing

 Folger Adam Jr.’s eyes were drawn to the bronze plaque hanging over the fireplace in the dining room. “In honor of the brothers of the Illinois chapter Alpha Delta Phi who rendered service...

 “There’s a thread you follow,” William Stafford wrote in the poem “The Way It Is,” and for Dipali V. Apte, that thread may be poetry, a quiet, persistent line running through childhood, through...

 English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship....

Illinois English professor and author David Wright Faladé was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. The honor society...

Poet Ángel García examines his disrupted family lineage in his new collection of poetry, seeking answers about where he came from...

David Wright Faladé examines race, class, and gender through the eyes of a young college woman spending time in her small Texas...

David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker. ...

David Miller has earned a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Miller earned his MFA in creative writing this spring from the Department of English’s Creative Writing...

Janice Harrington, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, has won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her poetry collection, “Yard Show.”The award, which is presented by the...

Two graduate students and one professor in the Department of English have been awarded Humanities Research Institute fellowships. The three were among fourteen selected for this year’s fellowship...

Three English professors were recently honored at the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick and Robert Schaefer investiture ceremony at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. A crowd of almost 80 people showed...

An LAS alumna has published her first novel that explores the idea of being able to literally shape your ideal partner from scratch. Maggie Su (BA, ’13, creative writing/English) is the assistant...

Creative writing professor Janice Harrington’s poetry collection, Yard Show, has earned a spot on the National Book Critics...