Margot Singer is a Professor of English at Denison and the Director of the Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement. She is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award; the short story collection The Pale of Settlement, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction, a collection of critical essays. Her work has been recognized with the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship for Prose. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, an M.Phil. from Oxford (where she was a Marshall Scholar), and a B.A. from Harvard. 

Peter Grandbois is the author of eight books, including two novels, The Gravedigger and  Nahoonkara; a hybrid memoir, The Arsenic Lobster; a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Disturbances; three novella “monster double features”: Wait Your Turn, The Glob Who Girdled Granville, and The Girl on the Swing; and the poetry collection, This House That. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over ninety magazines and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. Peter holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, an M.F.A. from Bennington College, and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Colorado. Previously, he taught at California State University in Sacramento and is currently an associate professor at Denison University.    

Michael Croley was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Corbin, Kentucky. He won an NEA Fellowship in Literature for 2016 as well as an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Croley’s work has appeared in Lit Hub, Narrative, Kenyon Review Online, The Paris Review Daily, Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. He teaches creative writing at Denison University.  

Alison Stine, an alumna of Denison, was a student in the inaugural Reynolds Young Writers Workshop and has been a member of the Reynolds faculty since 2002. She is the author of five books: a novella, The Protectors; a YA novel, Supervision, two award-winning books of poetry: Wait and Ohio Violence; and a poetry chapbook, Lot of My Sister.  She has taught at Fordham University, Gettysburg College, at the University of Maryland, where she received her MFA, and at Ohio University, where she received her PhD in English. She works as a freelance writer/reporter in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. 

Anne Barngrover is the author of Brazen Creature (2016 Akron Poetry Prize Editor’s Choice, forthcoming, University of Akron Press), Yell Hound Blues (Shipwreckt Books, 2013) and co-author, with poet Avni Vyas, of the chapbook Candy in Our Brains (CutBank, 2014). Anne earned her BA from Denison University, her MFA from Florida State University, and her PhD from University of Missouri, where she served as Contest Editor for The Missouri Review. Anne teaches English and creative writing at the University of St. Leo in Tampa, Florida. 

The Reynolds Young Writers Workshop Teaching Associate Staff are recent Denison graduates or current creative writing majors. Many participated in the Reynolds Workshop when they were in high school.  All are accomplished poets and writers with substantial teaching experience. Recent TAs have studied creative writing at Stanford University, Purdue, the University of Missouri, the University of Michigan, and other top graduate programs. TAs work closely with faculty in leading workshops, coaching participants, compiling the Reynolds Workshop Anthology, coordinating program activities, and supervising residential life.