Creative Writing Faculty & Staff
Lisa Jane Ampleman
Managing Editor, A&S English
369B ARTSCI
Lisa Ampleman is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Mom in Space (LSU Press, 2024), Romances (LSU Press, 2020), and Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013), as well as the chapbook I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State UP, 2012). Her poems have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, Ecotone, Colorado Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah and Southern Review, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is managing editor of the Cincinnati Review and poetry series editor at Acre Books.
Chris Bachelder
Professor, Director of Creative Writing, A&S English
101C ARTSCI
Chris Bachelder is the author of four novels, including The Throwback Special, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize. Dayswork, a novel written collaboratively with Jennifer Habel, was published in 2023. Bachelder has taught fiction writing at UC since 2011.
Michael Griffith
Professor, A&S English
214C ARTSCI
Michael Griffith's books of fiction are Spikes (Arcade, 2001), Bibliophilia (Arcade, 2003), and Trophy (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011), which was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books for that year. His book of nonfiction, The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell, appeared from the University of Cincinnati Press in 2021. He is working on a novel tentatively called Grimster & the Cruciverbalist.
Griffith's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, New England Review, Five Points, Oxford American, Pleiades, Salmagundi, Golf World, Shenandoah, and many other periodicals, and his puzzles--crosswords, acrostics, and hink pinks--have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, and in other places. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (2007-08), the National Endowment for the Arts (2004), the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2001), the Louisiana Division of the Arts (2001), and others. Griffith was founding editor of the Yellow Shoe Fiction series for Louisiana State University Press (2005-2021) and Fiction Editor of Cincinnati Review. Griffith was the recipient in 2005 of the English Department's Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, and in 2012 he was awarded UC's university-wide Doctoral Mentoring Award. Since 2013 he has been a Fellow of the Graduate School.
Griffith's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, New England Review, Five Points, Oxford American, Pleiades, Salmagundi, Golf World, Shenandoah, and many other periodicals, and his puzzles--crosswords, acrostics, and hink pinks--have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, and in other places. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (2007-08), the National Endowment for the Arts (2004), the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2001), the Louisiana Division of the Arts (2001), and others. Griffith was founding editor of the Yellow Shoe Fiction series for Louisiana State University Press (2005-2021) and Fiction Editor of Cincinnati Review. Griffith was the recipient in 2005 of the English Department's Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, and in 2012 he was awarded UC's university-wide Doctoral Mentoring Award. Since 2013 he has been a Fellow of the Graduate School.
Jennifer L Habel
Coordinator of Creative Writing, A&S English
101B ARTSCI
Jennifer Habel is the author of two full-length poetry collections—The Book of Jane, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition—and a chapbook, In the Little House, which won the Copperdome Prize. Her writing has received three Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, and has appeared in journals such as The Sewanee Review, The Believer, Gettysburg Review, and Gulf Coast.
Kristen Iversen
Professor, A&S English
214B ARTSCI
Kristen Iversen holds a Ph.D in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver (1996). She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literary nonfiction and fiction, and also serves as Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review and faculty editor of the undergraduate journal Short Vine. Her work includes the books Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012, paperback/audio 2013; selected by universities around the country for their First Year Experience/Common Read programs); Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth (1999, third edition 2018); Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (2004); and two edited anthologies, Doom with a View (2020) and Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen (2020). Essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others. Several documentaries have been based on her work, including a new documentary Full Body Burden (forthcoming 2023) and an option for a tv series. In 2020-2021, she was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar for the University of Bergen, Norway (temporarily postponed due to Covid). Forthcoming books are Friend and Faithful Stranger: Nikola Tesla in the Gilded Age and Wide and Generous World: New and Published Essays. See www.kristeniversen.com
Rebecca K Lindenberg
Area Director of Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, A&S English
248 ARTSCI
Rebecca Lindenberg is a poet, essayist, translator, and literary editor. She is the author of Love, an Index (McSweeney's) and The Logan Notebooks (Mountain West Poetry Series), winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award. Her third poetry collection, Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in Fall 2024. Her work also appears in many national magazines and literary journals including POETRY, The Believer, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Seneca Review, Iowa Review, and many more. She is the recipient of several grants and awards including an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, a seven-month fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and residencies at the MacDowell Arts Colony, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a writer, she is the Poetry Editor of the Cincinnati Review.
Aditi P Machado
Assoc Professor, A&S English
229D ARTSCI
I work as a transnational poet and scholar with abiding interests in translation theory & practice; global avant-gardes; serial/longform poetics; the poetry of philosophy; prosody; the sentence; docu- and eco-poetics; literatures of witness; multilingual and haptic literacies. I also write nonfiction and translate from the French. I read across time periods but my research tends to focus on US and Anglophone transnational literatures onwards from the mid-twentieth century. Pronouns: she/her.
BOOKS (as sole author)
Material Witness, Nightboat, 2024 (poetry)
Emporium, Nightboat, 2020, reprint: 2022 (poetry)
James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets
translated into Spanish as Emporio [Slimbook Editorial, 2022] by Guadalupe Alfaro and Tomás Fadel
Some Beheadings, Nightboat, 2017 (poetry)
The Believer Poetry Award
BOOKS (as translator/collaborator)
Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen et al., Sarabande, 2025 (collaborative experimental translations)
Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali, Action, 2016 (novel translated from the French)
CHAPBOOKS
now, Sputnik & Fizzle, 2022 (poetry)
The End, Ugly Duckling, 2020 (essay)
Rhapsody, Albion, 2020 (poetry)
Prologue | Emporium, Garden-Door, 2018 (poetry)
This Touch, Belladonna*, 2018 (essay)
Route: Marienbad, Further Other Book Works, 2016 (poetry)
The Robing of the Bride, Dzanc, 2013 (poetry)
C.V. IN BRIEF
2024-current: Advisory Poetry Editor, The Paris Review
2023-current: Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
2020-2023: Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
2018-2020: Visiting Poet-in-Residence, Washington University in St. Louis
2011-2019: Poetry Editor, Asymptote
2019: PhD, University of Denver
2012: MFA, Washington University in St. Louis
Further information upon request. Contact: aditi.machado@uc.edu
BOOKS (as sole author)
Material Witness, Nightboat, 2024 (poetry)
Emporium, Nightboat, 2020, reprint: 2022 (poetry)
James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets
translated into Spanish as Emporio [Slimbook Editorial, 2022] by Guadalupe Alfaro and Tomás Fadel
Some Beheadings, Nightboat, 2017 (poetry)
The Believer Poetry Award
BOOKS (as translator/collaborator)
Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen et al., Sarabande, 2025 (collaborative experimental translations)
Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali, Action, 2016 (novel translated from the French)
CHAPBOOKS
now, Sputnik & Fizzle, 2022 (poetry)
The End, Ugly Duckling, 2020 (essay)
Rhapsody, Albion, 2020 (poetry)
Prologue | Emporium, Garden-Door, 2018 (poetry)
This Touch, Belladonna*, 2018 (essay)
Route: Marienbad, Further Other Book Works, 2016 (poetry)
The Robing of the Bride, Dzanc, 2013 (poetry)
C.V. IN BRIEF
2024-current: Advisory Poetry Editor, The Paris Review
2023-current: Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
2020-2023: Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
2018-2020: Visiting Poet-in-Residence, Washington University in St. Louis
2011-2019: Poetry Editor, Asymptote
2019: PhD, University of Denver
2012: MFA, Washington University in St. Louis
Further information upon request. Contact: aditi.machado@uc.edu
Matthew S OKeefe
Associate Editor of The Cincinnati Review, A&S English
369 ARTSCI
Michael Christopher Peterson
Asst Professor - Research, A&S English
ARTSCI
Michael C. Peterson curently serves as the Curator of the George Elliston Poetry Room and Archive, located in Langsam Library on the Uptown Campus. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, the Kenyon Summer Writer's Institute, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His poems have appeared in journals such as the Boston Review Online, Kenyon Review Online, Southern Review, Blackbird, Fence, Bat City Review, Laurel Review, american letters & commentary, New American Writing, and in the anthologies They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (eds. Muench, Simone and Dean Rader; Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and Of Rivers: Poems After Langston Hughes (eds. Brown, Jericho and Sandra Lim, et al; Southern Humanities Review, 2015). He's been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, The Berkshire Prize, and Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Since 2021 he has been working on an edition of poems by Black American poet Tom Postell, forthcoming under the title Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an Unsung Master (Pleiades Press/Unsung Masters, forthcoming 2024).
Research interests include twentieth century avant garde poetries, postwar mimeograph and print culture, lyric acoustics and psychoacoustics, alignments of audio technologies, recording techniques, and lyric innovation in the twentieth century, archival praxis, participatory curation, and oral history.
Research interests include twentieth century avant garde poetries, postwar mimeograph and print culture, lyric acoustics and psychoacoustics, alignments of audio technologies, recording techniques, and lyric innovation in the twentieth century, archival praxis, participatory curation, and oral history.
James A Schiff
Professor, A&S English
229C ARTSCI
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Jim Schiff received his B.A. from Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. He is the author or editor of five books on contemporary American fiction, including John Updike Revisited, Understanding Reynolds Price, Updike's Version: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter, and Updike in Cincinnati. He was named by the John H. Updike Literary Trust to edit a volume of Updike's letters, which will be published in 2022. His essays and interviews have appeared in American Literature, Critique, Missouri Review, Southern Review, South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Fiction, Tin House, and elsewhere. He reviews books for newspapers, magazines and journals, and serves as the editor of the John Updike Review as well as a consulting editor of Critique and Philip Roth Studies. He has served on various boards, including the Duke University Trinity Board of Visitors, the University of Cincinnati Foundation, The Seven Hills School, the Community Learning Center Institute (CLCI), WCET-TV, and the Mercantile Library.
Felicia Zamora
Assoc Professor, A&S English
ARTSCI
Felicia Zamora (she/her) is a poet, educator, and editor. She is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and two chapbooks including, Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2025), Quotient (Tinderbox Editions, 2022), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, Body of Render, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award (Red Hen Press, 2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press),and Of Form & Gather, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, and Tin House. She won the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review, the 2020 C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and a Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2022 and 2024. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Orion, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, West Branch, and others. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and poetry editor for the Colorado Review.