Professor of Creative Writing

Helen Wallace's collection of poetry, Shimming the Glass House, is the winner of the 2007 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize and will be published October 2008 by Ashland Poetry Press. Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, and Discipline Coordinator for creative writing in the PEL program, Wallace is the co-editor of the poetry anthology Isle of Flowers published by Anhinga Press, and has published poems in The Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Cumberland Review, Nimrod International, Tampa Review, and other journals. She's received a McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award, The dA Center for the Arts Poetry Award, a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Wiliams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She earned her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from The Florida State University, and currently serves as the faculty adviser of the literary magazine, Eckerd Review.