MFA Faculty
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Keith Kopka
Program Director / Poetry Faculty
Keith Kopka is the recipient of the Tampa Review Prize for his collection of poems, Count Four. He is also the author of the critical text, Asking a Shadow to Dance: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry.
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Erin Belieu
Poetry Faculty
Erin Beliue is the author of five poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press. Her latest collection is Come-hither Honeycomb. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and founder of the literary resistance network Writers Resist.
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Laurie Foos
Fiction Faculty
Laurie Foos is the author of five novels including Ex Utero, Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, and Before Elvis There Was Nothing. Her work has been adapted for the stage and translated into more than a half a dozen languages.
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Emma Eisenberg
Nonfictiom / Fiction Faculty
Emma Eisenberg is the author of Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia which was named a NYT Notable Book and Editor's Choice. Her newest book Housemates will be published by Penguin Random House later this year.