Lecturer, Associate Director of Composition
2446 Dunford Hall
dwalla19@vols.utk.edu
Research
- Creative Writing
- Fiction Pedagogy
- Artistic Anxiety
Education
- Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2016
- M.F.A., Rutgers Camden
- B.A., University of Warwick
Publications
- “The Hills Will Melt Like Wax” (story) Tampa Review
- “An Open Letter to Canonical Authors,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Awards, Honors & Grants
- John C Hodges Graduate Creative Writing Prize, Fiction, 2015
- Toni Brown scholarship winner, Poetry and Prose Winter Getaway, 2012
Conference Presentations
- “A Thread Through the Labyrinth: a panel on plot” AWP, 2015
- “Creativity in the International Classroom,” TnCIS student abroad conference, Memphis 2015