Writing Center Coordinator
- Leslie Dennen Leslie Dennen coordinates the Writing Center and is an Associate Professor in the Rhetoric and Language Department at USF. She received her Masters degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (MATESL) and Certificate in Composition from San Francisco State University. She received her Doctorate in Education from USF in May 2007.
E-mail: dennenL@usfca.edu
Phone: 415-422-6011
Writing Center Consultants
- Julie Bruck Julie Bruck has an
MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for
Writers, and has taught widely, both in and out of university
settings. Her poetry and prose have been published widely, appearing
in magazines such as The New Yorker, MS., and Time. Her books
include, The Woman Downstairs (1993), The End of Travel (1999), and
Monkey Ranch (2012), which received Canada's 2012 Governor General's
Award for Poetry.
- Lily Iona MacKenzie A Canadian by birth, Lily Iona MacKenzie has a M.A. in Creative Writing as well as a M.A. in the Humanities from San Francisco State University. She has taught expository and creative writing, the humanities, and English, at the University of San Francisco and other Bay Area colleges for over 20 years. She also was co-creator of a radio show for children on the former KTIM in Marin County for two years. In addition, she has been a Marin Poetry Center board member and has served on other Marin non-profit boards. Her poetry collection All This was published in November 2011 and can be found in the USF Gleeson Library. Her poetry, critical and personal essays/articles, travel pieces, and short fiction have appeared in numerous U.S. and Canadian publications. She also has completed four novels that are currently seeking publishers. Keeping a journal, gardening, dabbling in the visual arts (sculpting and painting), writing daily, riding her bike, and working out at the gym help to fill up her spare time. Blog address: http://lilyionamackenzie.wordpress.com
- Michael Hammond
- Onllwyn Dixon
- Bernadette Pedagno
- Cynthia Schultes
- Eleni Stecopoulos
- Tom Lugo
- Kat Winter Kathleen (“Kat”) Winter holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MA in Literature from Boston College and law degree from University of California, Davis. She practiced law for several years before becoming a teacher. Winter’s first collection of poems, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, won the Antivenom Prize and was published by Elixir Press in 2012. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, FIELD, Memorious, Tin House, VOLT, New American Writing, Anti-, 32 Poems and other journals.
- Dan Chomko
- Veronica Andrew
- Regina Arnold
- Vincent Chandler
- Susan Leong
- Ben Linzer
- Robert Rohr
- Eleni Stecopoulos
- Amy Timko
