DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Biography

Sheila P. Donohue (she/her) received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was the Randall Jarrell Fellow and served as poetry editor and production manager for The Greensboro Review. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and subsequently taught there for several years as the Jones Lecturer in Poetry. She recently won second place in The Masters Review novel excerpt contest for a section from her novel-in-progress, Curious Monster. Other fiction, essays, and poems have been published widely in literary magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, The Seneca Review, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, TriQuarterly, and Epoch. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and has received several nominations for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry and fiction in the undergraduate major and has twice been elected to the SAG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll. She is currently serving as the Director of Weinberg Academic Advising.

Specializations

Creative Writing Fiction, Creative Writing Nonfiction