Marjorie Maddox Hafer
- Title(s)
- Professor/English and Creative Writing
- Education
Cornell University, MFA (Sage Graduate Fellowship)
University of Louisville, MA in English
Wheaton College, BA in Literature
- Contact Information
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- 570-484-2044
- Send an Email
- Personal Website
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403 Raub Hall - Lock Haven Campus
Courses Most Commonly Taught
- Poetry Writing
- Fiction Writing
- Honors Composition and Literature
- Dimensions of Literature
- Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
- Our Own: Pennsylvania Authors
- Modern Poetry
- Four Poets: Moore, Bishop, Plath, Sexton
- Composition
- Indep. Studies and MLA Theses and in Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Novel Writing
- Literary Scholarship
- Ethnic American Literature
Areas of Expertise
- Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, children’s literature)
- Pedagogy
- Pennsylvania Literature
- Sports Literature (particularly baseball)
- Children’s Literature
- Book reviews
- Scholarly essays
Courses Developed
- Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
- Our Own: Pennsylvania Authors
- Modern Poetry
- Four Poets: Moore, Bishop, Plath, Sexton
Programs Developed
- Pennsylvania Authors Reading Series
- UpWrite Reading Series, which emphasizes diversity from a number of different angles
- WriteNow: Community Conversations with Contemporary Authors
Research Areas
- Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, children’s literature)
- Pedagogy
- Pennsylvania Literature
- Sports Literature
- Children’s Literature
Books Published
- Eleven collections of poetry, a short story collection, and four children’s books, and co-editor of an anthology
- What She Was Saying (Fomite Press 2017, short stories)
- Wives' Tales (Seven Kitchens' Press Editors' Series 2017)
- A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experiment (Zing! Schoolwide 2017, middle-grade biography)
- Inside Out: Poems on Writing Poems with Insider Exercises (Zing! Schoolwide 20017, middle-grade mentor book)
- True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series 2016, Cascade Books; Illumination Book Award Medalist in Education)
- Co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005)
- Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013)
- Weeknights At The Cathedral (an Editions Selection 2006)
- Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize)
- Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award)
- When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner)
- Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999)
- Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press 1997)
- How to Fit God into a Poem (Painted Bride Contest Winner)
- Nightrider to Edinburgh (Amelia Contest Winner 1986)
- Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005), co-editor with poet Jerry Wemple
- A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (WordSong 2008)
- Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (WordSong 2009).
Articles Published
Over 500 poems, stories, and creative and scholarly essays published in national literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and newspapers.
In the News
Poetry Moment: Marjorie Maddox and 'The Difference Between Women and Men'