Lecturers

Lecturers

Melissa Burley

Lecturer

mburley@miami.edu

(305) 284-4673
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Areas of Interest: Visual Rhetoric, Photography, Creative Writing Melissa Burley received her MFA in fiction from the University of Miami after studying art history at the Université de Paul Valery, in Montpellier, France, and graduating with a B.A. in history from the College of William and Mary. Her poetry, prose poetry, an interview,...
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Judy G Hood

Senior Lecturer

j.hood1@miami.edu

(305) 284-4673
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Judy Hood studied at Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany, graduated from Stetson University, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami. Her work ranges from non-fiction to poetry and has been published in The Southern Quarterly, Mangrove Literary Magazine, and the Miami Herald. She contributed to the college...
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Mia Angela Leonin

Senior Lecturer

mleonin@miami.edu

(305) 284-2114
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Mia Leonin is the author of four poetry collections: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child (BkMk Press), Braid, Unraveling the Bed, and Chance Born (Anhinga Press), and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). Leonin has published poetry and creative nonfiction in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Indiana Review,...
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Martha E. Otis

Senior Lecturer

motis@miami.edu

(305) 284-4673 x4675
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Martha Otis has an MFA from the University of Florida, an MA from Stanford University, and a BA from the University of Chicago. Her interests include poetry and all genres of narrative storytelling. She teaches composition 105, 106 and 107, and moonlights in creative writing 209 and 406.
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Peter Schmitt

Senior Lecturer

pschmitt@miami.edu

(305) 284-2175
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Peter Schmitt is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books), Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press).  He has also published two chapbooks: Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices,...
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