Faculty

• Militello, Jennifer

  

  Program Director, MFA in Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding 203, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2309
  Email: jmilitello@nec.edu
  Professional Website: jennifermilitello.com

  Recent Press

  • The Pact, Tupelo Press, 2021
  • Knock Wood, Dzanc Books, 2019
  • A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press, 2016
  • Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press, 2013
  • Flinch of Song, Tupelo Press, 2009
  • Anchor Chain, Open Sail, Finishing Line Press, 2006

   

  Other notable press:
  Knock Wood featured at NHPR

  “Opinion” in The Nation Reading at Georgetown University

  “The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another” in Best American Poetry 2020

  Educational Background
  PhD, Bath Spa University
  MFA, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  BA, University of New Hampshire

  Bio
  Jennifer Militello is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction, including, most recently, The Pact and Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. Her work has been called “positively bewitching” by Publishers Weekly and “contemplative and fascinating” by Booklist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has called her “one of the best poets of her generation.”

  Her work appears in such journals as American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and Tin House, as well as in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. She has been awarded the Barbara Bradley Award, the Yeats Poetry Prize, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, the Betty Gabehart Prize, and the 49th Parallel Award, as well as grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

  Militello taught at Brown University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Rhode Island School of Design before joining the faculty at New England College. She lives in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

• Paige Ackerson-Kiely

  

  Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of three books of poetry, In No One’s Land (Ahsahta, 2007), My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer (Ahsahta, 2012) and Dolefully, A Rampart Stands (Penguin, 2019) and other works of poetry and prose. Poems have appeared in journals such as jubilat, Ninth Letter, Bellingham Review, Verse, and Copper Nickel. She’s received grants and fellowships from such places as Poets & Writers, Boomerang, Vermont Arts Council, and others.

• Chen Chen

  

  Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books has just released the UK edition. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and GESUNDHEIT! (with Sam Herschel Wein and out now from Glass Poetry Press). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Best American Poetry (2015 & 2019), and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2017). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, MA with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

• Anaïs Duplan

  

  Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and St. Joseph’s College.

  His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2021. As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He works as Program Manager at Recess.

• Leah Johnson

  

  Leah Johnson is the author of the young adult novels You Should See Me in a Crown (June 2020), recently named a Junior Library Guild selection, and Rise to the Sun (2021), which are both forthcoming from Scholastic. She received her MFA in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College, where she currently teaches in their undergraduate writing program. Leah is a staff contributing editor at Catapult Magazine and a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. She resides in Brooklyn, New York (but will always be a Midwesterner at heart).

• Andrew Morgan

  

  Andrew Morgan is a professor, poet, editor and volunteer whose work can be found in magazines such as Conduit, Verse, Slope, Stride, Fairy Tale Review, New World Writing, Post Road, Pleiades (as part of a “Younger American Poets” feature) and is the recipient of a Slovenian Writer’s Association Fellowship which sponsored a month long writing residency in the country’s capital city of Ljubljana. Currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at New England College, his first book, Month of Big Hands, was published by Natural History Press in 2013.

• Anna Qu

  

  Anna Qu is a Chinese American writer. Her debut memoir, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor is forthcoming this August with Catapult. Publisher’s Weekly hailed the memoir as “the arrival of a new voice,” and Time has called it a must-read for the summer.  Her work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Kweli, Vol.1 Brooklyn, among others. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches workshops at Catapult and Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop.

• David Ryan

  

  David Ryan is the author of the short story collection, Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press) and Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked (Ig Publishing). His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Tin House, BOMB, Fence, Denver Quarterly, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others, and has been anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton); Boston Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Books); and The Mississippi Review: 30 Years. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, BOMB, BookForum, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Fiction (Oxford University Press), and others. A founding editor of the literary magazine, Post Road, he currently edits the Fiction and Theatre sections.

• Alison Titus

  

  Allison Titus is a poet and fiction writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry: Instructions from the narwhal (Bateau Press, 2007), Topography of Tears (Artifact Press, 2017), and Sob Story (forthcoming from Barrelhouse Press, 2018); two books of poetry: Sum of every lost ship (Cleveland State University Press, 2010), and The True Book of Animal Homes (Saturnalia Press, 2017); and a novel, The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing To Do With Fire (Etruscan Press, 2014). In 2011, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her poetry.