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Writer's Workshop Faculty

RICHARD DUGGIN, Director and Founder of University of Nebraska MFA in Writing, was raised in New England and received his bachelor’s degree in literature and writing from the University of New Hampshire. He received his MFA degree in fiction writing from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and he has taught fiction writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for the past forty years. He is founder of the UNO Writer’s Workshop, a BFA degree program in creative writing within the College of Fine Arts. Duggin’s published work includes the novel The Music Box Treaty and numerous short stories which have appeared in such periodicals as American Literary Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Sun, Playboy, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and he has been awarded several artist’s residencies at Ragdale, Yaddo and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has recently finished his third novel and is currently at work on a stage play.

ART HOMER was raised in the Missouri Ozarks and the Pacific Northwest. He worked on forest trail crews, as an animal caretaker, and as a journeyman ironworker before finishing his education at Portland State University and the University of Montana Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He worked for two years in the Montana Poets in the Schools, has edited Portland Review, CutBank, SmokeRoot Press, and The Nebraska Review—and has taught at several colleges and universities. Since 1982, he has taught poetry and nonfiction writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writer’s Workshop, where he was named a Regents Professor in 1995. Homer’s most recent of four poetry collections, Sight is No Carpenter, was published by WordTech Press in November 2005. His nonfiction book, The Drownt Boy: An Ozark Tale (University of Missouri Press, 1994) was a finalist for the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. His books have been reviewed in The Bloomsbury Review, Iowa Review, L.A. Times Book Review, Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, Des Moines Register, Kansas City Star, Western American Literature, Western Humanities Review and elsewhere. His awards include a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. He and his wife, poet & fine press printer Alison Wilson, are growing grapes in a corner of their 80 acres. They have built their own house in the opposite corner. Art is the proud owner of an old pickup and a young chocolate Lab to ride in the back.

ANNA MONARDO's second novel, Falling In Love With Natassia, was published by Doubleday in May 2006. Her first novel, The Courtyard of Dreams (Doubleday, 1993; reprinted by iUniverse.com, 2000), has been translated into German, Norwegian, and Dutch. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Salon.com, The Sun, Indiana Review, Redbook, Other Voices, Clackamas Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, McCall's; and anthologized in A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers (University of Nebraska Press), The Dream Book Anthology of Writing by Italian-American Women (Schocken Books) and The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (Berkley Books). Her fiction has also been included in the NPR reading series, "Selected Shorts." She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she has been awarded several University Creative Research grants. Before moving to Nebraska, Monardo taught in the MFA Program at Eastern Washington University and in various writing programs in New York City, including the Writer's Voice of the West Side Y, New York University School of Continuing Education, and Marymount Manhattan College Courses for Adults. Originally from Pittsburgh, she received her BA from St Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana) and her MFA from Columbia University. She has also worked as an editor at McCalls, Time, and Random House. She is a 2000 and 2003 recipient of Merit Awards from the Nebraska Arts Council.

MILES WAGGENER was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and studied Spanish and English at Northern Arizona University before earning an MFA from the University of Montana, where he received the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship. His poems have appeared in such journals as Crazyhorse, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. He was awarded an individual creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in 2003 and a prize from the Academy of American Poets at the University of Montana. Before joining the faculty of the Writer's Workshop at University of Nebraska Omaha, he taught creative writing and Latin American literature at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. His collection Phoenix Suites won the Washington Prize and was published in 2003 by The Word Works. He lives in Omaha with his wife and fellow poet, Megan Gannon.