Kyle Dargan Assoc Professor CAS - Literature
Kyle G. Dargan is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently ANAGNORISIS (Northwestern, 2018), HONEST ENGINE (UGA, 2015) and LOGORRHEA DEMENTIA (UGA,2010). His debut, THE LISTENING (UGA 2…
Creative Writing Faculty
Stephanie Grant Assoc Professor CAS - Literature
Stephanie Grant is an author of fiction and creative nonfiction. She has written two novels, The Passion of Alice (Houghton Mifflin 1995) and Map of Ireland (Scribner 2008) and sever…
David Keplinger Professor CAS - Literature
A professor of Literature at AU since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2022 American University Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most re…
Patricia Park Assoc Professor CAS - Literature
Patricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2015), named The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and American Library Association’s Best Boo…
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Assoc Professor CAS - Literature
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels: Wench and Balm. *USA Today* called Wench "deeply moving" and "beautifully written." *People* called it "a devastatingly bea…
Rachel Louise Snyder Professor CAS - Literature
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of the nonfiction books Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade and No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About D…
Selected Faculty Books
- Anagnorisis: Poems
by Kyle Dargan - Re Jane
by Patricia Park - What We've Lost Is Nothing
by Rachel Louise Snyder - The Most Natural Thing
by David Keplinger - Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez: 2011 First Novelist Award from the ALA Black Caucus
- Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann: 2005 John C. Zacharis Award Winner; 2006 PEN/Robert Bingham Award Finalist
- The Passion of Alice
by Stephanie Grant