Creative Writing

Department Chair & Staff

Mark Cox

Mark Cox, professor & department chair
poetry

coxm@uncw.edu
910.962.3331

Megan Hubbard

Megan Hubbard, department administrator

hubbardm@uncw.edu
910.962.7063

Lisa Bertini

Lisa Bertini, MFA program assistant

bertinil@uncw.edu
910.962.3070

Siobahn Daugherty, administrative associate for Lookout / Ecotone

daughertys@uncw.edu
910.962.2333
Kenan Hall 1102

Faculty Profiles

Tim Bass

Tim Bass, senior lecturer;
BFA coordinator & internship coordinator
creative nonfiction/fiction

basst@uncw.edu
910.962.7711

Wendy Brenner

Wendy Brenner, associate professor
fiction/creative nonfiction

brennerw@uncw.edu
910.962.3782

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Melissa Crowe, assistant professor;
MFA coordinator
poetry

crowem@uncw.edu
910.962.3436

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Nina de Gramont, professor
fiction

degramontm@uncw.edu
910.962.3426

Sayantani Dasgupta, assistant professor
creative nonfiction/fiction

dasguptas@uncw.edu 
910.962.7305

Michelle Donahue, assistant professor;
associate editor of Ecotone
prose

donahueml@uncw.edu
910.962.0579

Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton, professor and recipient of
Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship
fiction/creative nonfiction

edgertonc@uncw.edu

KaToya Ellis Fleming, assistant professor of publishing arts;
editor, Lookout Books

flemingk@uncw.edu

Jill Gerard

Jill Gerard,
Chautauqua co-editor

gerardj@uncw.edu
910.962.3650

David Gessner

David Gessner, professor;
Ecotone editor-in-chief
creative nonfiction

gessnerdm@uncw.edu
910.962.7489

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Rebecca Lee, associate professor
fiction/creative nonfiction

leer@uncw.edu
910.962.3266

Melody Moezzi

Melody Moezzi, visiting associate professor, 2019-2023
creative nonfiction

moezzim@uncw.edu
910.962.7775

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Malena Mörling, professor
poetry

morlingm@uncw.edu
910.962.7841

Jason Mott
winner, National Book Award
ongoing Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell, assistant professor;
editor & art director, Ecotone;
editor, Lookout Books


phillipsal@uncw.edu
910.962.7651

Michael Ramos, lecturer;
outreach coordinator;
assistant director of The Publishing Laboratory;
art director, Ecotone;
creative nonfiction

ramosm@uncw.edu
910.962.7775

Robert Siegel

Robert Anthony Siegel, associate professor
fiction/creative nonfiction

siegelr@uncw.edu
910.962.7596

ELS

Emily Louise Smith, assistant professor;
director of The Publishing Laboratory;
publisher, Ecotone and Lookout Books
creative nonfiction/poetry

smithel@uncw.edu
910.962.7401

Michael White

Michael White, professor
poetry

whitem@uncw.edu
910.962.3519

Professors Emeriti

Philip Furia

Philip Furia, professor emeritus
creative nonfiction

Philip Gerard

Philip Gerard, professor emeritus (pending)
Chautauqua co-editor
fiction/creative nonfiction