MTSU Write Director and Faculty

 

AmieWhittemore

         

 Amie Whittemore, Director

Amie Whittemore is the author of Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and Star-Tent: A Triptych ( Tolsun Books). She is the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow.

A lecturer at Eastern Illinois University, she holds degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.A.), Lewis & Clark College (M.A.T.), and Southern Illinois University Carbondale (M.F.A.). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Cold Mountain Review, and elsewhere.

Mary Leoson

 

Mary Leoson, Assistant Director

Mary Leoson is a lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University and the author of YA novel The Butterfly Circle (Manta Press). She is also a Pushcart Nominee, Member of the Horror Writers Association, and Co-Host of Horror Writing Podcast Exhuming the Bones. Her short fiction can be found in anthologies and literary magazines such as Coffin Bell Journal. When she’s not teaching or writing about ghosts, you will likely find her in the garden or on the couch with her husband and two very spoiled dogs. You can learn more at maryleoson.com


MTSU Write Faculty

Given the intensity of one-on-one mentoring, we cannot promise that all mentors listed here are available to you in any given trimester, but please make your request known and we will do the best we can to secure the mentor of your choice. 

We have mentors in the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's literature (YA and Middle Grade Fiction), and writing for the stage and/or screen. You can go directly to the genre of interest to by using the links below:

Interested in becoming a mentor? We are open to reviewing mentor applications on a rolling basis from high quality, well-published writing mentors. If this sounds like you, send a letter of interest, CV, and contact info for two references to mtsuwrite@mtsu.edu.

Fiction & Nonfiction Mentors