Department Chair & Professor: Poetry
910.962.3331
coxm@uncw.edu
Department Administrator
910.962.7063
hubbardm@uncw.edu
MFA Program Assistant
910.962.3070
bertinil@uncw.edu
Administrative Associate: Lookout / Ecotone
Kenan Hall 1102
910.962.2333
daughertys@uncw.edu
MFA Coordinator
Assistant Professor: Poetry
910.962.3436
crowem@uncw.edu
Professor: Fiction
Write Wilmington Founder and Coordinator
Associate Professor: Creative Nonfiction/Fiction
Assistant Professor: Fiction
Associate Editor: Ecotone
Writers in Action Coordinator
Assistant Professor: Prose
Editor: Lookout Books
Assistant Professor: Publishing Arts
Internship Coordinator
Editor: Chautauqua
Lecturer
Editor-in-Chief: Ecotone
Professor: Creative Nonfiction
BFA Coordinator
Lecturer
Associate Professor: Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Professor: Poetry
Associate Professor: Fiction
mottj@uncw.edu
Editor: Ecotone
Editor: Lookout Books
Assistant Professor: Publishing, Poetry
910.962.7651
phillipsal@uncw.edu
Art Director: Ecotone
Assistant Professor: Creative Nonfiction
ramosm@uncw.edu
Director: The Publishing Laboratory
Founder and Publisher: Lookout Books
Associate Professor: Publishing, Creative Nonfiction/Poetry
910.962.7401
smithel@uncw.edu
Assistant Director: The Publishing Laboratory
Assistant Art Director: Ecotone
Lecturer: Prose
Professor Emeritus: Creative Nonfiction
Co-editor: Chautauqua
Professor Emeritus (pending): Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
The department's permanent faculty is augmented annually by a diverse and accomplished group of visiting writers. The dozen or so visiting writers and readers each year share their work with graduate and undergraduate students, conduct workshops and seminars, and offer advice about the craft of writing and the business of publishing. Guests have included winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Walt Whitman Award.
Spring 2025
Gabrielle "Gaby" Calvocoressi, poetry
Parneshia Jones, publishing & writing
Fall 2024
Meg Day, poetry
Writers Week 2024: Justin Torres, keynote
Spring 2024
Mensah Demary, publishing
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, creative nonfiction <interview>
Fall 2023
Eduardo C. Corral, poetry
Writers Week 2023: Hanif Abdurraqib, keynote
Spring 2023
Mesha Maren, fiction
Megha Majumdar, publishing
Fall 2022
Melissa Faliveno, creative nonfiction
Writers Week 2022: Imani Perry, keynote
Spring 2022
Kazim Ali, poetry
Wiley Cash, fiction
Fall 2021
Writers Week 2021: Sandra Cisneros, keynote
Spring 2021
Ladee Hubbard, fiction
Fall 2020
Toni Jensen, fiction
Writers Week 2020: Natalie Diaz, keynote
Spring 2020
Kim Barnes, nonfiction
Fall 2019
Meg Day, poetry
Writers Week 2019: Ayana Mathis, keynote
Spring 2019
Taylor Brown, fiction
Camille T. Dungy, poetry
Fall 2018
Nickole Brown & Jessica Jacobs, poetry
Writers Week 2018: Camille T. Dungy, keynote
Spring 2018
Patricia Smith, poetry
Fall 2017
Jason Mott, fiction
Miriam Parker, publishing
John Jeremiah Sullivan, creative research
Writers Week 2017: Ross Gay, keynote
Spring 2017
Virginia Holman, creative nonfiction
Duncan Murrell, creative nonfiction
Jason Mott, poetry
Fall 2016
Jill McCorkle, fiction
Writers Week 2016: Mei Fong & Chinelo Okparanta, keynote
Spring 2016
Bill Roorbach, creative nonfiction
Nikky Finney, poetry
Fall 2015
Michael Taeckens, publishing
Writers Week 2015: Jill McCorkle, keynote
Spring 2015
Patricia Hampl, creative nonfiction
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poetry
Fall 2014
Karen E. Bender, fiction
Writers Week 2014: Kathryn Miles, keynote
Spring 2014
Hope Edelman, creative nonfiction
A. Van Jordan, poetry
Nikky Finney, Buckner Lecture Series
Fall 2013
Jason Mott, fiction
Writers Week 2013: Natasha Tretheway, keynote
Tim O'Brien, The Big Read Lecture
Spring 2013
Cristina García, fiction
Fall 2012
Cynthia Huntington, poetry
Bob Reiss, creative nonfiction
Writers Week 2012: Bill Roorbach, keynote
Spring 2012
Mary Reufle, poetry
Edith Pearlman & John Rybicki, Chancellor's Installation
Fall 2011
Steve Almond, fiction
Scott Cairns, nonfiction
Writers Week 2011: Steve Almond, keynote
Spring 2011
Paul Lisicky, fiction
Peter Makuck, poetry
Fall 2010
John Jeremiah Sullivan, creative nonfiction
Writers Week 2010: Denis Johnson, keynote
Joyce Carol Oates, Buckner Lecture Series
Spring 2010
Diana Hume George, creative nonfiction
Karen Volkman, poetry
Fall 2009
Ben Fountain, fiction
Michael Thomas, fiction
Writers Week 2009: Allan Gurganus, keynote
Spring 2009
Zelda Lockhart, fiction
Melanie McGrath, creative nonfiction
Fall 2008
Jack Myers, poetry
Peter Trachtenberg, creative nonfiction
Writers Week Fall 2008: Jack Myers, keynote
Spring 2008
Elizabeth Kostova, fiction
A. Van Jordan, poetry
Writers Week Spring 2008: Yusef Komunyakaa, keynote
Fall 2007
Haven Kimmel, creative nonfiction
John Updike, Buckner Lecture Series
Spring 2007
Joy Williams, fiction
Gerald Stern, poetry
Writers' Week 2007: Susan Orlean, keynote
Fall 2006
Bob Reiss, creative nonfiction
George Singleton, fiction
Spring 2006
Virginia Holman, creative nonfiction
ZZ Packer, fiction
Charles Siebert, creative nonfiction
Writers' Week 2006: Jonathan Franzen, keynote
Fall 2005
Jill McCorkle, fiction
John Sullivan, creative nonfiction
Ken Burns, Buckner Lecture Series
Spring 2005
Robert Creeley, poetry
Donna Tartt, fiction
Writers' Week 2005: Robert Creeley, keynote
Fall 2004
Rick Bass, creative nonfiction
Bob Reiss, creative nonfiction
Randall Kenan, fiction
Spring 2004
Mark Doty, poetry
Writers' Week 2004: Tracy Kidder, keynote
Fall 2003
Daniel Robb, creative nonfiction
Spring 2003
Jan DeBlieu, creative nonfiction
Writers' Week 2003: Andrea Barrett, keynote
Fall 2002
Sharon Bryan, poetry
David Wright, creative nonfiction
Spring 2002
Allan Gurganus, fiction
Denise Gess, fiction
Writers' Week 2002: Galway Kinnell, keynote
Fall 2001
Karen Bender, fiction
Timothy Liu, poetry
Spring 2001
Richard Bausch, fiction
Albert Goldbarth, poetry
First Annual Writers' Week Symposium: William Least Heat-Moon, keynote
Fall 2000
Daniel Wallace, fiction
Heather McHugh, poetry
Spring 2000
Terry Tempest Williams, creative nonfiction
Carolyn Forche, poetry
Bob Reiss, fiction
Fall 1999
Bret Lott, fiction
Spring 1999
Alison Lurie, fiction
Fall 1998
Bob Reiss, fiction
Jorie Graham, poetry
Spring 1998
Mark Strand, poetry
Philip Levine, poetry
Clyde Edgerton, fiction
Dennis Sampson, poetry