Melora Wolff

Professor and DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE WRITING

BA, English, Brown University
MFA, Fiction, Columbia University 

Office: Palamountain 323
Phone: (518) 580-5197
Email: mwolff@skidmore.edu

Personal Website

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Fiction
• Expository Writing
• Film
• Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Essay
• Writing About Theater and Drama

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: Body Narratives; Transformations; Bad Boys: Rebel Artists; Fantastic Imagination; Realms of the Unreal
• EN 105: Fantasy and Film
• EN 105H: Childhood Dramas; Childhood in Cinema
• EN 205: Personal Experience & the Critical Voice; The Poetry of Prose
• EN 213: Poetry
• EN 211: Fiction
• EN 228: Informal Forms: The Personal Essay
• EN 229: Words and Images
• EN 229W: Childhood in Cinema
• EN 280: Nonfiction/Personal Voice; Nonfiction/Lyric Essays
• EN 281: Introduction to Fiction Writing
• EN 364: Personal Essays; Reading and Writing Memoir
• EN 377: Reading for Writers/Nonfiction
• EN 378: Nonfiction: Influence as Essay
• EN 378: Nonfiction: Lyric Essays
• EN 378: Nonfiction: Lyric and Narrative Essays
• EN 379: Nonfiction: Landscape and Memory
• EN 380: Fiction Workshop
• EN 381: Advanced Projects in Nonfiction
• HF 100: Honors Forum: Visual Autobiography
• TA 251: Writing About Drama
• Theater 334 Writing About Theater
• Theater 334 Honors: Essays About Theater

Select Publications:

Book: Bequeath: Essays (LSU Press, Fall 2024), Best American Fantasy, Brick, Speculative Nonfiction, The Chronicle Review, The New York Times, The Normal School, The Southern Review, Every Father's Daughter: 24 Women Writers Remember Their Fathers,  The New Brick Reader

Selected Honors:

• Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award in Nonfiction, Southern Indiana Review
• Notable Essay of the Year, Best American Essays (three)
• Selected Prose, Best New Writing
• Special Mentions in Nonfiction, Pushcart Prize (two)
• Fellowship in Nonfiction, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts
• Eli Cantor Fellowship in Nonfiction, Corporation of Yaddo
• Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing, Bucknell University
  
• Artists' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts