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Center Staff and Contact Information Director of Creative Writing and Piper Center Domestic Initiatives
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Artistic Director for Piper Global Engagement
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Director of Communication
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Program Coordinator
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Director, Master of Liberal Studies Program (MLSt)
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T. R. Hummer is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, Useless Virtues (2001) and Walt Whitman in Hell (1996), both from Louisiana State University Press. Hummer has edited The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Georgia Review.
Sean Nevin was named assistant director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing in July of 2008. A familiar face to the Arizona State University creative writing community, Sean also serves as director of the Young Writer’s Program at ASU and is co-editor of 22 Across: a Review of Young Writers. He holds an MA from Queens (NY) College and an MFA in creative writing from ASU. His literary awards include: an Academy of American Poets Prize, The Alsop Review Poetry Prize and The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Eastern Frontier Education Foundation. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, 5AM, JAMA, and anthologies including, Family Matters: Poems of Our Families (Bottom Dog Press, 2005) and Beyond Forgetting: Prose and Poetry about Alzheimer's (Kent State University Press 2008). He is the author of A House That Falls, winner of the 2005 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize and Oblivio Gate, which won the 2007 Crab Orchard Award Series First Book Prize (Southern Illinois University Press 2008).
Amanda Monrad hails from Lafayette, Indiana, and moved to Phoenix in 1997, receiving her B
Tom McDermott joined the Piper Center for Creative Writing staff in August of 2007 after spending 17 years as sports information director at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H. While at SNHU he was responsible for promoting the school's 15 intercollegiate athletic teams. While new to the arts community, he brings with him nearly two decades of communication and marketing experience, having also previously worked for Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology and the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He is a native of Buffalo, New York and a graduate of SUNY-Brockport.
Elizabyth Hiscox holds an MFA in creative writing from ASU and is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the online journal 42 Opus, as well as an advisor for The Superstition Review. She was 2007 Poet-in-Residence at St. Chad's College of Durham University, England; and prior to a return to the Piper Center for Creative Writing in July of 2008, she instructed composition, literature, and creative writing at ASU’s Polytechnic Campus. Her work has most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Foundation, and The Journal of Modern Literature, and is currently featured as part of the Seventh Avenue Streetscape in central Phoenix.
Paul Morris holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Goucher College, plus an MA in Humanities from Southern Oregon University. He is a well-published writer with many poems, translations, essays, and articles. He has taught creative writing at ASU for more than 14 years. He is interested in nature writing and mundane studies (which contemplates ordinary things, examines their social, literary, and natural histories as a way to rediscover the world around us). He is a published travel writer with a focus on food writing. If you have questions about the MLSt program or about nonfiction writing in general, call 480-727-0819.
Matthew Brennan 
Marqueshia Wilson graduated from Boston University with a BA in English. Before joining the Piper Center for Creative Writing staff she taught first-year composition and writing reflective essays as part of Writing Programs. She is a fiction student in the MFA program at ASU, a 2007 Piper Travel Fellow to Canada, a 2008 Piper Travel Fellow to China, and an aspiring novelist. Marqueshia tutors small and smaller children during the smallest amount of free time, and regularly donates blood.
Kristina Morgan received a BA in English and Women Studies from Stephens College and earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from ASU.