To enhance our strong program in creative writing, the Department of English established the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing.
The annual fellowship is designed to support writers completing their first books. It provides a generous stipend, office space, and an intellectual community for the recipients, who spend the academic year at Colgate. In return, each fellow teaches a creative-writing workshop each semester and gives a public reading of his or her work.
For additional information about the fellowship and the application process, please contact us at
englishdept@colgate.edu or 315-228-7262.
Amy Butcher
Amy Butcher is a graduate of Gettysburg College and the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her essays and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in
The Indiana Review, The Colorado Review, Brevity, The Rumpus, and
Hobart, among others, and she is a recent recipient of a Stanley Grant for International Research. She is the managing editor of
Defunct and a former intern for the
Gettysburg Review, and is currently at work on a book-length essay that meditates on the historic battlefield town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and a murder that recently occurred there. The book considers the nature of friendship and the parameters inherent in the relationships we seek.
Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo received her BS from Penn State University, her MA from Rutgers University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in
Granta, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, The Coffin Factory, Conjunctions, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Iowa, where she served as a Dean's Fellow and subsequently as the Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer for Fiction. Her short story collection
will be published in 2013, followed shortly by her debut novel, tentatively entitled
Under The Udara Trees.