Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Three Authors Join Our Faculty This Fall!

The UA Programs in Creative Writing and Translation are proud to announce that three dynamic, talented writers will join our faculty this fall! Fiction writers Toni Jensen and Padma Viswanathan and poet Geffrey Davis will join our program as tenure-track assistant professors in August.

Toni Jensen is the author of From the Hilltop, which was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories delve into the intertwined lives of Native characters outside the reservation. Always complex, her characters defy stereotype in favor of their own truths about life and tradition.

Novelist, playwright, and essayist Padma Viswanathan is the author of The Toss of a Lemon (2008) and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published this month by Random House Canada. Her novels dig deeply into issues of culture, memory, history, and identity to reveal characters complex in both their emotional and interpersonal connections.

Geffrey Davis is the author of Revising the Storm, recently published by BOA Editions and winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide and won numerous awards, including the Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

For full details on these exciting new hires, read the news release here.


Toni Jensen
Padma Viswanathan
Geffrey Davis