Coe College Writers' Workshop Faculty

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

She has published her poems widely in journals including Poetry, Hudson Review, The American Scholar, North American Review, and others. She is the author of two collections and two chapbooks. Her latest chapbook, What You Try to Tame, has just been released. She spent the academic year 2002-2003 as Fulbright Fellow in Sri Lanka, and this island is the locale for her latest book.

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

Mennenga's fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Northwest Magazine, SEEMS, Folio and other magazines. Since 1987, Gordon has written for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Good Evening. He was a 1995 recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction. A film, Everyday, based on a monologue Gordon wrote for A Prairie Home Companion, is currently in release.

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