James Cushing (Ph.D., UC Irvine, 1983), who joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1989, w as the California Faculty Association Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-05 and Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo for 2008-2010. Prior to moving to California, Coffman was an Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona and has twice been a Visiting Professor at Deep Springs College. Her work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, and has appeared in journals including The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid American Review and River City, and in the anthologies Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee A Fine Excess and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. She has won grants for her poetry from the National Endowments for the Arts, the PEW Charitable Trusts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. in creative writing, New York University, 1989) is the author of two full-length collection of poems, Less Obvious Gods (Iris Press, 2013) and Likely (Kent State University Press, 1996). All instructors in creative writing are not only dedicated teachers but continually productive artists. Kevin Clark and Todd Pierce, lead faculty in poetry and fiction respectively, have each won teaching awards, have published widely, and have written creative writing textbooks.
The creative writing faculty at Cal Poly believes that the professor's job is to help students identify and enhance that which is idiosyncratically best in their writing while also providing opportunity and suggestions for new areas of exploration.
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