Coe College English Department Faculty

Ann Struthers, Writer-in-Residence
and Visiting Associate Professor of English
B.A., Morningside College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Dr. Struthers is the author of several books of poems, including The Alcott Family Arrives. She reviews poetry for the Des Moines Register and other publications. She has strong interests in writing, modern literature, and foreign literatures, especially the modern Near East.

Gordon Mennenga,
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., University of Northern Iowa
M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop

Gordon Mennenga is a fiction writer whose short story, "Peepers." won a Nelson Algren Award. He has written monologues for Garrison Keillor and a film based on a monologue was released in 1999. Gordon is interested in film and screenwriting as well as hip hop music and popular culture.

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