Creative Writing at WVU: Wild, Wonderful Writing

Creative Writing Faculty

Mary Ann, Elesa, and Emily

Fiction
Mark Brazaitis
Emily Mitchell
Poetry
James Harms
Mary Ann Samyn
Nonfiction
Ellesa Clay High
Kevin Oderman
Ethel Morgan Smith

Recent Achievements

Mark Brazaitis won the ABZ Press Poetry Prize for his first book of poems The Other Language. Read more…

James Harms’ sixth book of poetry, After West, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Read more…

Mary Ann Samyn’s book of poetry Beauty Breaks In will be published this fall by New Issues Press.

Read Their Work

Mark Brazaitis The Boy Behind the Tree
James Harms On Beauty and West Virginia at the Blue Moose Caf�©
Emily Mitchell Vanishing Bicycle
Kevin Oderman A House Fitting
Mary Ann Samyn Poems from Beauty Breaks In
Ethel Morgan Smith Mother