Creative Writing
Kara Oakleaf directs the Fall for the Book festival and teaches creative writing and literature in the English department. She has worked with the festival since 2010 and became its director in 2015. She received her M.F.A. at George Mason University and her work appears in Best Small Fictions 2020, Bloomsbury's Short-Form Creative Writing, and journals including Matchbook, Booth, Wigleaf and SmokeLong Quarterly.
"Inked." Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, 2020.
"Rumors of Ice." Fiction, Booth, 2020.
"On Fire." Fiction, Matchbook, 2019.
"The Mermaids Grow Old." Fiction, Pithead Chapel, 2019.
"The Magician." Fiction, Wigleaf, 2018.
"View of the End of the World from the Holiday Inn Express - Salina." Fiction, Jellyfish Review, 2018.
"Gravity, Reduced." Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017.
"Baby In Light." Fiction, Postcard Poems and Prose, 2017.
"Origin Story." Nonfiction, Tahoma Literary Review, 2016.
"The Astronauts' Baseball League." Fiction, Monkeybicycle, 2016.
ENGH 201 Reading and Writing About Texts
ENGH 355 Recent American Fiction
ENGH 392 Forms of Fiction
ENGH 396 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGH 398 Fiction Writing
M.F.A., George Mason University
B.A., Denison University