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Miles Waggener

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Miles Waggener

Miles Waggener

  • Professor
  • Unit Coordinator, Writer's Workshop
  • MFA in Writing Faculty Mentor

email:
mwaggener@unomaha.edu
office phone:
402.554.2151
fax:
402.554.3436
area of focus:
  • Poetry

Additional Information

Biography

Miles Waggener is the author of four volumes of poetry: Phoenix Suites, Sky Harbor, Desert Center, and most recently Superstition Freeway, published by The Word Works of Washington DC. He has been the recipient of The Washington Prize as well as individual grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council. His poems have appeared widely in such journals as The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Cutbank, Gulfcoast, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. A recipient of an Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award, he has been a Writer’s Workshop faculty member since 2006.

Research and Creative Activity Interests

Poetry, poetry translation, creative nonfiction

Scheduled Teaching

Poetry Writing Studio, Form and Theory: Poetry in Tanslation, Creative Nonfiction Writing Studio, Contemporary Writers in-Print and in-Person, Poetry Fundamentals, Introduction to Creative Writing, Literary Journal

Additional Information

Biography

Miles Waggener is the author of four volumes of poetry: Phoenix Suites, Sky Harbor, Desert Center, and most recently Superstition Freeway, published by The Word Works of Washington DC. He has been the recipient of The Washington Prize as well as individual grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council. His poems have appeared widely in such journals as The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Cutbank, Gulfcoast, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. A recipient of an Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award, he has been a Writer’s Workshop faculty member since 2006.

Research and Creative Activity Interests

Poetry, poetry translation, creative nonfiction

Scheduled Teaching

Poetry Writing Studio, Form and Theory: Poetry in Tanslation, Creative Nonfiction Writing Studio, Contemporary Writers in-Print and in-Person, Poetry Fundamentals, Introduction to Creative Writing, Literary Journal

Additional Information

Biography Research and Creative Activity Interests Scheduled Teaching

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