Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola revised their highly popular textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction for a 3rd edition, published by McGraw-Hill in August 2019. In the past year, Brenda’s essays and poems appeared in such venues as Fusion, Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Her book of collaborative essays, written with MA Alum Julie Marie Wade, called Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for an Essay Collection, chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib, in 2019, and it will be published by Cleveland State University Press in 2021. She also has forthcoming a collection of her “writing on writing,” called A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, with University of Michigan Press in 2021. Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com
Bruce Goebel
Bruce Goebel helped establish a new ELL/English major for future K-12 educators and published “ENG 1: Humor for Teachers,” English Journal, Vol. 109, No. 4, March 2020.
Suzanne Paola
Suzanne Paola has had three books accepted for publication this year: one, The Devil’s Castle (nonfiction), is in the writing stage and appearing in 2022 from Counterpoint Press. Two are finished and in the publication process— Entangled Objects: A Novel in Quantum Parts (Slant Books, fiction) and The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here (OSU 21st Century Essay series, nonfiction)— both appearing in 2021. She has published poetry in the South Carolina Review and essays in Signal Mountain Review, the UK Independent, and the New York Times. Additionally, she has published the critical article “Speculative Nonfiction” in the AWP Chronicle and contributed a chapter, “The Truth in Schreber’s Delusions,” to the scholarly work The Futures of Neurodiversity, forthcoming from Modern Language Association Books.
Brenda Miller
Brenda Miller, with her colleague Suzanne Paola, has been hard at work on the updates for the Third Edition of Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, scheduled for release this summer. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such venues as Tupelo Quarterly, Jet Fuel Review (with alum Julie Marie Wade), and Psaltery & Lyre (edited by alum Dayna Patterson). Brenda’s essay “The Shape of Emptiness,” originally published in Brevity, received recognition as a “Notable Essay of 2018” in Best American Essays. Her article “The Fine Art of Containment in Creative Nonfiction” appeared in the March issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. In her teaching, she developed a new course focused solely on “Hermit Crab Essays” for ENG 458: Topics in Nonfiction Writing, and a graduate course (ENG 598) exploring the assumptions and practices of creative writing pedagogy.
BA, 1978: Robert Stothart
Robert Stothart (BA, 1978) won the 2018 Conger Beasley, Jr. Award in Nonfiction from the journal New Letters for his essay “Cataract Surgery.”