Anne-Dyer Stuart, Ph.D.

Teaching and Research Interests

Anne-Dyer Stuart won the Henfield/Transatlantic Prize from the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation for her fiction; her nonfiction was selected by Joshua Harmon for New South journal’s prose prize; her poetry was selected by Steve Almond for the Best of the Web anthology; and her prize-winning one-act was produced in The Rocky Mountain Playwrighting Festival in Telluride, Colorado. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, Fiction Southeast, New World Writing, Third Coast, Pembroke Magazine, The Louisville Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Poet Lore, Lake Effect, Exit 7, storySouth, and elsewhere.

She has served as writer-in-residence at The Columbia Training School, a juvenile prison for girls in Mississippi, and won the Ben Mounger Rawls Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she taught before joining the English Department at Bloomsburg University.

Courses Taught

• ENGL151 - Introduction to Literature
• ENGL152 - Literature and Society
• ENGL204 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL280 - Literature and Ethnic Identity
• ENGL290 - Short Story
• ENGL292 - Creative Non-fiction
• ENGL300 - Fiction Workshop
• ENGL301 - Poetry Workshop
• ENGL470 - Young Adult Literature
• ENGL491 - Senior Seminar
• WRIT103 - Foundations in Composition

Scholarship

Anne Dyer Stuart recently published eight poems in several literary journals: “Infected” in North American Review;“ “Vigilance and Carousel” in Jelly Bucket;  “In the Squeak,” “Deep Winter,” and “Snow Child” in December; and “Local News” and “Moving Day” in SLANT.  She was also profiled in SLANT along with the publication of her work.  

Anne Dyer Stuart was invited to read her work at the Mid-America College Art Association (Virtual) Conference’s first poetry panel, for which she read “What Girls Learn: Lessons from the Delta” alongside esteemed poets Jessica Jopp, Celeste Gainey, and Nicole Santaluccia. She also read her work (“Inheritance: Poems in Progress”) at The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore.

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work Volume 15, the first issue that she co-edited, was recently published; it includes two of her poetry reviews, “Artemas & Ark: The Ridge and Valley Poems by Jerry Wemple and The History of a Voice by Jessica Jopp.