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Curriculum Vitae
Wayne Morris Creech, Jr.
Department of English and Foreign Languages
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609
Office Phone: 337-475-5194
Home Phone: 337-263-0290
Home Address: 1128 A Hodges Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601
e-mail: wcreech@mcneese.edu; morri65237@yahoo.com
Books:
Field Knowledge. Waywiser Press, 2006.
The Book of Life. 21 st Press, 2005.
Listening to the Earth. 21 st Press, 2004.
Publications
Paper Cathedrals. Kent State University Press, 2001.
Poems in Journals and Magazines:
“Letter from the Coast,” The New Criterion, forthcoming 2009.
“The Apples of Recollection” The Indiana Review 31.2 (December 2009, forthcoming).
“The Trouble.” The New Criterion 27 (September 2008): 30.
“Elegy for a Small Town Psychic.” Yale Review 95.4 (July 2007): 42.
“For the Rebel Angels.” Southwest Review 92.1 (Winter 2007):
“Suspension.” Sewanee Review 113.3 (Summer 2005): 368-370.
“Listening to the Earth.” Sewanee Review 113.3 (Summer 2005): 368-370.
“The Wife of Job.” Southern Review 40.3 (Summer 2004): 419-20. Reprinted on-line at
Verse Daily.
“Discourse on Desire.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography VI (2004): 35-7.
“In the Orchards of Science.” Southern Review 40.3 (Summer 2004): 421.

“World Enough.” Southern Review 40.3 (Summer 2004): 422-3.
“The Canto of Ulysses.” The New Republic 230.8 (March 8, 2004): 24.
“Discourse on Desire.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography VI (2004): 35-7.
“The Resurrection of the Body.” Southern Review 39.1 (Winter 2003): 20-22. Reprinted
on-line at Verse Daily.
“Regarding the Windmaker.” Southeast Review 6 (2003): 37-9.
“Firstfruits.” Hudson Review 56.3 (Autumn 2003): 455-6.
“Field Knowledge.” Sewanee Review 110.3 (Summer 2002): 366-9.
“Noli Me Tangere.” Critical Quarterly 43.2 (July 2001): 98.
“Charles Darwin and the Theology of Natural Science.” American Literary Review 12.1
(Winter 2001): 17.
“The Pilgrimage of Lazarus.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography 3 (2001):
71.
“Night Blooming Cereus.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography 3 (2001): 148.
“The Testament of Judas.” Sewanee Review 108.2 (Spring 2000): 206-15.
“Engine Work: Variations.” The New Criterion 19.3 (November 2000): 43-4.
“The Music of Farewell.” The New Criterion 19.3 (November 2000): 45.
“Chesapeake Revelation, 1786.” Southern Review 36.1 (Winter 2000): 10-12.
“The Garden in Solitude.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography 2 (2000):
141.
“Broken Glass.” Literary Review 42.2 (Winter 1999): 268-9.
“The Gardener.” Southern Review 35.2 (Spring 1999): 210.
“A Parable of the Body.” Southern Review 35.2 (Spring 1999): 211.
“On the Nature of Starlings.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 34.
“The Heaven of Memory.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 35.

“Vernacular.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 36.
“Landscape of Heaven.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 37. Reprinted on-line at
Verse Daily.
“Honey and John the Baptist.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 38.
“Dogwood.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 39.
“Provision.” Missouri Review 22.1 (Winter 1999): 40.
“Driftwood Table.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography 1 (1999): 135.
“A Parable of the Body.” Image 6.1 (1998): 31.
“The Judas Tree.” Image 6.1 (1998): 32.
“Second Harvest.” Laurel Review 32.2 (Spring 1998): 18.
“Summer Birds.” Laurel Review 32.2 (Spring 1998): 19.
“Photograph: the Geese.” Laurel Review 32.2 (Spring 1998): 20.
“Snakebite.” Sewanee Review 106.1 (Winter 1998): 34.
“Distillations.” Sewanee Review 106.1 (Winter 1998): 35.
“Engine Work.” Sewanee Review 106.1 (Winter 1998): 36.
“Dream of the Burning.” Tar River Poetry 37.1 (Fall 1998): 28-9.
“Re-imagining the Scene: Photograph of My Mother Taken During My Childhood,
Several Years after the Death of Her First Child.” Crazyhorse 51 (1996): 30.
“Letter to Rilke.” Cimmaron Review Issue 115 (1996): 82.
“Late Rehearsal.” Cimmaron Review Issue 115 (1996): 83.
“An Old Story.” Plum Review 4.2 (Spring 1996): 41.
“The Book of Absences.” Plum Review 4.2 (Spring 1996): 42.
“Childhood.” Visions International 47 (1995): 13.

Poems in Anthologies:
“Broken Glass.” Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. Ed. R. S. Gwynn. 4 th ed. New York:
Penguin, 2005. 446.
“Broken Glass.” Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. Ed. R. S. Gwynn
and April Lindner. 4 th ed. New York: Penguin, 2005. 361.
“World Enough.” Poetry Calendar 2007: 365 Classic and Contemporary Poems. Selected
by Shafiq Naz.
Essays on Contemporary Photographers:
“Josephine Sacabo and the Lens of Revelation.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary
Photography 5 (2003): 27-8.
“Keith Carter’s Hymn to Beauty.” 21 st : The Journal of Contemporary Photography 5
(2003): 98-100.
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
2009 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to attend the Sewanee Writer’s Conference.
2006 nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Field Knowledge, a collection of
poems.
2006 received a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
2006 Field Knowledge named a Booklist Editor’s Choice.
2005 received the first annual Anthony Hecht Prize, $3000 and book publication,
for Field Knowledge. Judged by J. D. McClatchy.
2004 received a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem, “The Resurrection of the Body.”
2001 First Place Press Award for Best Original Poetry from the Catholic Press Association
awarded for “Triptych,” published in Commonweal.
2000 Paper Cathedrals, a collection of poems, named a finalist for the Association of Great
Lakes Colleges First Book Award.
2000 received the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, $2,000 and book publication by Kent
State University Press, for Paper Cathedrals. Judged by Li-Young Lee.

1999 received $5,000 Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
1998 received first place, Joy Scantlebury Prize in Poetry.
1998 received a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem, “Summer Birds.”
1997 awarded a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship for Young Poets by Poetry Magazine.
1997 received first place, Joy Scantlebury Prize in Poetry.
Invited Readings
December 2009. University of Hartford. Hartford, Connecticut (upcoming).
January 2009. Queens University. Charlotte, N.C.
November 2008. Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington D.C.
November 2008. Park Roads Books, Charlotte, N.C.
October 2008. Charleston Poetry Society: Main Charleston Library, S.C.
April 2007. McNeese State University, Lake Charles.
March 2007. Lamar State University, Texas.
November 2006. Florida State University, Florida.
November 2006. Chapters Books in Washington, D.C. as part of the 2 nd
Annual D.C. International Book Festival.
February 2004. West Chester University, Pennsylvania.
October 2004. Brigham Young University, Utah.
November 2004. Kent State University, Ohio.
October 2003. Winthrop University, South Carolina.
September 2002. Washburn State University, Kansas.
October 2001. Lamar State University, Texas.
November 2001. Kent State University, Ohio.

March 2001, Associated Writing Program Conference. Part of the “Here in Louisiana”
Reading, New Orleans LA.
March, 2001. McNeese State University, Louisiana.

July 1998
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Specialization: Poetry
Thesis: The Judas Tree
McNeese State University
July 1998
M.A. in English
McNeese State University
May 1994
B.A. in English
Minor: History
Winthrop University
Education
Academic Positions
McNeese State University:
Associate Professor of English (Tenured), Fall 2006 to Spring 2008.
Assistant Professor of English, Fall 2000 to Spring 2006.
Visiting Lecturer, Fall 1998 to Spring 2000.
Queens University of Charlotte:
Assistant Professor of English, Fall 2008 to present.
2000-2008 (McNeese)
Teaching
Courses:
English 673: Graduate Creative Writing Workshop.
English 671: Form and Theory of Poetry I (Graduate).
English 672: Form and Theory of Poetry II (Graduate).
English 529: Twentieth Century Poetry (Graduate).
English 513: Contemporary Poetry (Graduate).
English 461: Twentieth Century Poetry (Undergraduate).
English 407: Contemporary Poetry (Undergraduate).
English 361: Advanced Composition (Undergraduate).
English 202: Survey of British Literature II, 1799 to Present (Undergraduate).
English 102: English Composition II (Undergraduate).
English 101: English Composition I (Undergraduate).
English 090: Remedial English Composition (Undergraduate).

2008-present (Queens University of Charlotte)
Courses:
English 206: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 308: The Writing of Poetry
Low Residency M.F.A. Graduate Workshop: Poetry
Craft Seminars:
M.F.A. Craft Seminar: The Principles of Poetic Composition (January 2009)
M.F.A. Craft Seminar: Sound in Poetry (May 2009)
Directed:
Thesis Committees (2000-2008, McNeese)
John Anderson, Spring 2007 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Bill Sroufe, Spring 2006 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Joshua Falleaf, Spring 2006 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Jennifer Frayer-Griggs, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Wendy Whelan-Stewart, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Hillary Joubert, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Tabitha Hibbs, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Jacob Elison, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Anne-Christine Rudholm, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Susan Schaffer, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Brett Myhren, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Daniel Westover, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Toni Goodwin, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Susan-Marie Balding, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Suzanne Bayard, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Summer Mauldin, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Summer Mauldin, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Misti Lackey, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Jeanne Owens, Fall 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Brian O’Leary, Spring 2001 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Matt Lany, Spring 2001 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Poetry])
Served on Committee:
Charles Heiner, Fall 2007 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Dara Boudreaux, Spring 2007 (M.A., English) McNeese
Kelly Williams, Spring 2007 (M.A., English) McNeese
Julia O’Carroll, Spring 2007 (M.A., English) McNeese
Chris Lowe, Spring 2007 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese

Joshua Canipe, Spring 2007 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Casie Cobos, Spring 2006 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Michelle Reed, Spring 2006 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Carol Palay, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Marymarc Armstrong, Spring 2005 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Jessica Pitchford, Spring 2004 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Shonell Bacon, Spring 2004 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Billy Merck, Spring 2004 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Matt Hobson, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Judd McDonald, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Darren Dillman, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Corliss Badeaux, Spring 2003 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Michael Horner, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Camron Buss, Spring 2002 (M.F.A. Creative Writing [Fiction]) McNeese
Other Professional Activities and Services
(2000-2008, McNeese State University)
Reading Series: coordinated all visiting poets, scheduled and administrated student
conferences with visiting poets, and delivered introductions at readings, 2000 to 2008.
Admissions: recruited M.F.A. Poetry candidates, reviewed all applications for M.F.A.
Poetry Program, selected all candidates for the Poetry Workshop, 2000 to 2008.
Advising: served as Academic Advisor to all M.F.A. Poetry Candidates, 2000 to 2008.
Committees: served on McNeese Athletic Committee, 2000 to 2001; served on Faculty
Senate, 2001to 2004; served on Withdrawal Appeals Committee, 2004 to
2008.
(2008-present, Queens University of Charlotte)
Reading Series: coordinate all visiting poets and fiction writers for the Queens Under-
graduate Reading Series; deliver introductions for visiting poets, Fall 2008 to present.
Deliver ninety minute craft seminars to M.F.A. students during residencies, twice a year,
January 2009 to present.

J. D. McClatchy
Yale University
Department of English
New Haven, CT 06520
Office: 203-432-2633
Home: 212-535-9131
Greg Williamson
The Writing Seminars
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
Office: 410-516-4876
Home: 678-474-9733
Cell: 678-471-7496
X. J. Kennedy
22 Revere Street
Lexington, MA 02420-4424
Home: 781-862-2606
References
Neil Connelly
Director, Master of Fine Arts Program
Department of English and Foreign Languages
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609
Office: 337-475-5497
Home:337-474-5579
Maggie Anderson, Coordinator
Wick Poetry Program
Department of English
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
Office: 330-672-2101
Home: 330-673-2270
Dr. John Wood
P. O. Box 218
Saxtons River, VT 05154
Home: 802-869-1947