Creative Writing and Literature - Faculty
Mark Behr
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
B.A., B.A. Hons, Stellenbosch University
M.A., M.A., M.F.A., University of Notre Dame
Mark Behr is the author of the novels The Smell of Apples, Embrace, and Kings of the Water. His work is translated to ten languages and has received literary awards from the Los Angeles Times, The British Society of Authors and the South African Academy of Arts & Sciences.
A former research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Norway, he has taught literature and international peace studies in Africa, Europe and the USA.
An Associate Professor of World Literature and Fiction Writing, he teaches Post-Colonial Literature, the Contemporary Novel, Literary Theory, Queer and Gender Theory, African and African American Literature. He travels annually between the USA and South Africa.
Read a review of his book, Kings of the Water, in The Guardian.
Matt Donovan
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Department Chair
B.A., Vassar College
M.A., Lancaster University
M.F.A., New York University
Matt Donovan is the author of Vellum, a collection of poems which won the Bakeless Literary Publication Prize in Poetry, and the 2008 Larry Levis Reading Prize. His poems have been published in many literary journals, including Poetry, Agni, The American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review and Ontario Review.
Donovan has been the recipient of both a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.
Matt Donovan joined the College of Santa Fe in 2003.
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