Martin Lammon, MFA Program Coordinator and Fuller E. Callaway/Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing, has won awards for both his poetry and creative nonfiction. His collection of poems, News from Where I Live, won the Arkansas Poetry Award, and his poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The Gettysburg Review, Hotel America, The Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets and Writers, and The Southern Review. Poems published in Nimrod were awarded a Pablo Neruda Prize. His essays about living in Costa Rica have been published in The Iowa Review (runner-up for the Iowa Literary Nonfiction award), Zone 3 (named a “notable essay” in Best American Essays 2009), and The Chattahoochee Review (winner of the Lamar York Prize for Creative Nonfiction). In 2007, he was selected for GCSU’s Distinguished Professor Award.

David Muschell  is an award-winning playwright who teaches Scriptwriting and the seminar on Teaching Creative Writing. His plays have received over a dozen national and regional awards, including New York's MultiStages New Play Festival, Buffalo's Alleyway Theatre's New Play Award, The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's Marilyn Hall Award, and the Southern Playwrights Competition. His work has been produced by many theatre companies and university theatres, including Polaris North in New York, Colorado Christian University in Denver, and St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Allen Gee, Associate Professor of English, teaches Fiction Workshops, Prose Forms, other Creative Writing seminars, and Multicultural Literature classes. He edits fiction and nonfiction for Arts & Letters. He has received fellowships from Yaddo and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He is currently working on a novel called Paul & Julia that will be represented by Gail Hochman. His most recent stories appear in Ploughshares and Juked.  Other work appears or is forthcoming in: the Crab Orchard Review, Lumina, the Rio Grande Review, Gulf Coast, the Concho River Review, THIS Literary Magazine, the Newtown Literary Journal, Slab, and elsewhere.   An essay on teaching will appear in the forthcoming anthology Creative Writing in the Community by Continuum. Gee received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston

Laura Newbern  is a poet whose work has appeared in such magazines and journals as The Atlantic Monthly, The Oxford American, TriQuarterly, and several other of the nation's top literary venues. Her work was also selected for Best New Poets 2007, for which she was featured at the Spring 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book. She recently won the 2010 First Book Award from Kore Press for her book of poems, Love and the Eye, as well as a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and she also holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from New York University.

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, and several children’s books. His memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist’s Memoir, was short-listed for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize. His most recent novel, The Water Master, was awarded the Pirate’s Alley/William Faulkner Society Prize for best novel. Other honors include the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, a Dana Award for the Essay, and a Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference Award for his full-length play, A God in the House, based on Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College and State University and teaches at Antioch University’s MFA Creative Writing Program.