Marjorie Maddox Hafer

403 Raub Hall

(570) 484-2044

Courses Most Commonly Taught

Poetry Writing
Fiction Writing
Honors Composition and Literature
Dimensions of Literature
Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
Our Own: Pennsylvania Authors
Modern Poetry
Four Poets: Moore, Bishop, Plath, Sexton
Composition
Indep. Studies and MLA Theses and in Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Novel Writing
Literary Scholarship
Ethnic American Literature

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Pennsylvania Authors Reading Series
UpWrite Reading Series, which emphasizes diversity from a number of different angles
WriteNow: Community Conversations with Contemporary Authors

Eleven collections of poetry, a short story collection, and four children’s books, and co-editor of an anthology
What She Was Saying (Fomite Press 2017, short stories)
Wives' Tales (Seven Kitchens' Press Editors' Series 2017)
A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experiment (Zing! Schoolwide 2017, middle-grade biography)
Inside Out: Poems on Writing Poems with Insider Exercises (Zing! Schoolwide 20017, middle-grade mentor book)
True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series 2016, Cascade Books; Illumination Book Award Medalist in Education)
Co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005)
Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013)
Weeknights At The Cathedral (an Editions Selection 2006)
Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize)
Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award)
When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner)
Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999)
Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press 1997)
How to Fit God into a Poem (Painted Bride Contest Winner)
Nightrider to Edinburgh (Amelia Contest Winner 1986)
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005), co-editor with poet Jerry Wemple
A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (WordSong 2008)
Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (WordSong 2009).

Over 500 poems, stories, and creative and scholarly essays published in national literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and newspapers.