Margot Singer is the Dominick Consolo Professor of English and the Director of Denison’s Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement. She is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue; 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. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, an M.Phil. from Oxford, and a B.A. from Harvard.

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. She has taught classes in composition, creative writing, and literature to high school or college students in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. Anne currently lives in Nashville.

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.