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Years at Knox: 2012 to present
Education
Ph.D., English/Creative Writing, 2011, Western Michigan University.
M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry, 2007, Purdue University.
B.A., English, 2001, Hope College.
Teaching Interests
Creative writing.
Honors/Grants
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Western Michigan University, 2011.
Herbert Scott Award, Western Michigan University, 2010.
Frostic Creative Writing Award, Western Michigan University, 2008.
Barriss and Iola Mills Award, Purdue University, 2007.
Publications
"Knife-grinder: Principle of Flickering (1913)" and "Once in the door of." Cimarron Review (2012.)
Nocturne - Schumann's Letters, in chapbook form by Finishing Line Press (2010.)
"Wintering (January)" and "Foal." Flyway 14.2 Spring (2012.)
"Saint Reparata" Weave Winter (2012.)
"The Bathers." Sakura Review 3 Fall (2011.)
"Driving Home to Sirens." Third Coast 33 Fall (2011.)
"Glider Boathouse." Controlled Burn XVII Spring (2011.)
"Bridal." DIAGRAM 9.3
"Anamnesis" and "Possum." DMQ Review Spring (2009.)
"Late Winter," Matins," "Mozart," "Sleeping," "The Piano," and "Unlatching." Poetry East 64/65 Spring (2009.)
"Notes on the Appositive," in Cider Press Review 10 Spring (2009.)
"Toccata or Fugue," in The Portland Review 54.2 Winter (2008.)
"Darwin's Finches." Cimarron Review 165 Fall (2008.)
Presentations
Participant, Literary Publishing Panel: "When Change is the Only Constant." AWP Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2012.
"Beyond Confession: The Feminist Poetics of Rich, Plath, Sexton, Lorde & Swenson." Northeast MLA Conference, Rochester, New York, 2012.
Co-led Presentations and Workshops: "Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetry: Description and Desire," and "Writing the Midwest." Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2010.
Guest Lectures, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2008 and 2009.
Featured Reader (Poetry) Third Coast Reading Series, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2007 and 2008.
"Below the Good Angel," MFA Thesis Reading, Wells Community Cultural Center, Lafayette, Indiana, 2007.
Featured Reader (Poetry) Sycamore Review Reading Series, Lafayette, Indiana, 2006.
Contact
309-341-7195
lkdonnelly@knox.edu
Leading up to a worldwide event -- Gun Control Theatre Action Week, May 27 through June 2 -- a play by Knox College theatre professor Neil Blackadder was selected for a new collection, "24 Gun Control Plays."
Rana Tahir, a double major in creative writing and political science, wrote dozens of poems and created 29 paintings after interviewing Kuwaiti residents about the 1990 Iraqi occupation.
Knox College awarded more than $1,750 in prizes in the 2013 Al Young Art Show. Organizing 200 art works in an array of media is a challenge, according student Katie O'Connor, who helped arrange the entries.
