Meet the Faculty . . .

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
• M.A., Poetry, Ohio University.
• He is the founding editor of Al in aelon Kein:  The Marshall islands Literary Review and former theatre director and Humanities professor of the College of the Marshall Islands. 
• He is the faculty advisor for Backroads, UPJ's student-run literary journal.
• Read a selection of his poems at www.myideaoffun.org

• Associate Professor of Writing
• M.F.A., Poetry, Univ. of Iowa Writers' Workshop.; Ph.D., Creative Writing, Ohio Univ.
• Author of Whittling Lessons ( published by Finishing Line Press )
• Author of The Saint of Withdrawal (Custom Words Press, 2006).
• His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Fence , Northwest Review , Elixir , Third Coast , The Journal , Quarter After Eight , and the Laurel Review.
• read a poem #1
• read a poem #2

• Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
• Ph.D., English, The University of Iowa.
• He is the author of a play, Cowboy Love, produced by the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. He has recently published poems inMelange, 5 AM, Salt River Review, and The Louisville Review.
• Recipient of the Chancellor's Teaching Award, he is the innovator of the popular Freshman Seminar in Imaginative Writing, the Playwriting workshop, and the annual Galgonooza student play festival.

Dr. Michael W. Cox, Coordinator of Professional Writing
mwcox@pitt.edu
233B Biddle Hall, (814)-269-7159

• Assistant Professor of Writing
• MA, English, Univ. of Florida; PhD, English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
• He has published short stories, essays, and critical articles in such venues as Passages North, Salt Hill, South Asian Review, the New York Times Magazine, Best American Essays, and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction.
• He teaches Fiction, Nonfiction, and Professional Writing.  He has degrees in psychology and social science and more than a decade of full-time work experience in business and in medical research.

• Professor of Humanities and Spanish
• MA, Romance Languages, Univ of North Carolina; PhD, University of Kentucky.
• His translations have appeared in many literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, Carolina Review, Chicago Review, and Sonora Review.
• He has published five books of translations of the poetry of Costa Rican poet Laureano Alban, and has translated several novels.
• Listen to Dr. Fornoff read with Laureano Alban. Click on "Laureano Alban" at:  http://www.thepoetryforum.org/poets.html
• He has served as President of the American Literary Translators Association.

• Associate Professor of Journalism.
• MA, Penn State University.
• He has a distinguished career as a professional newspaperman, serving as a daily newspaper reporter, Bureau Manager, correspondent business manager, and deputy metro editor.
• The advisor of UPJ's student newspaper, The Advocate, he serves as writing consultant and coach for newspapers and is a daily newspaper columnist and magazine writer.
• In the last 11 years, UPJ's Journalism program graduates have won 35 statewide awards for their professional work.