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Faculty

• Andrew Morgan

  

  Andrew Morgan is a professor, poet, editor, and volunteer whose work can be found in magazines such as Conduit,听Verse,听Slope,听Stride,听Fairy Tale Review, New World Writing,听Post Road, Pleiades听(as part of a “Younger American Poets” feature)听and听is the recipient of a听Slovenian Writer’s Association Fellowship, which sponsored a month-long writing residency in the country’s capital city of Ljubljana. Currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at New England College, his first book, Month of Big Hands, was published by听Natural History Press听in 2013.

• Dr. Bryan Partridge

  

  Professor, Writing
  Phone: 603.428.2388
  Email: bpartridge@nec.edu

  Educational Background
  PhD in Humanities from Union Institute and University
  MA in Creative Writing, Dartmouth College
  BA, The College of Wooster

  Research Interests

  • Nature writing
  • Travel writing
  • School climate
  • Choice theory

   

  Bio
  Bryan Partridge came to NEC in 2004 as the first professional mentor in NEC鈥檚 Mentoring program. After three years of developing the program, Bryan transitioned to an assistant professor in the Writing Department. Bryan has been a professor for 17 years and spent three academic years revamping and overseeing the Composition Program.鈥疕e has also led students on Study Away trips to places like Cuba, India, Australia, the Galapagos Islands, Patagonia, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras.

  His professional career outside of academia includes doing extensive education consulting for the Center for School Climate and Learning鈥攈elping educators develop and implement data-driven action plans to improve school climate, prevent bullying and school violence, reduce dropouts, and re-engage disengaged learners.鈥疊ryan鈥檚 literary passions are travel and nature writing, but he also loves to write fiction and creative nonfiction.

  Outside of professional interests, he travels widely, spends weeks on New England鈥檚 lakes and hiking trails, writes, gardens, and enjoys living with his wife, Kt, and his family in Etna, New Hampshire.

• Maura MacNeil

  Professor, Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding 204, Henniker Campus
  Phone 603.428.2304
  Email: mmacneil@nec.edu

  Expertise, Awards, and Recent Press
  Awards:

  • NEC Kilgore Faculty of the Year Award, 2007
  • New Hampshire College and University Council鈥檚 Outstanding Teaching in Postsecondary Education Award, 2013
  • Periclean Faculty Leadership Grant from the Lang Foundation for the development of the course titled 鈥淐ommunity in Our Towns: The NH Town Meeting鈥� with Professor Inez McDermott

   

  Books:

  • This Last Place, Dancing Girl Press, 2019
  • Lost Houses, Kelsay Books, 2016
  • A History of Water, Finishing Line Press, 2007

   

  Founder/Editor: off the margins, offthemargins.com

  Educational Background
  MFA, Vermont College of the Arts
  BA, New England College

  Research Interests

  • Creative nonfiction and memory narrative
  • Hybridity, Contemporary American Poetry, and Poetics
  • Feminist literature and revisionist mythology

   

  Bio
  Maura MacNeil is a professor, writer, and editor who is the author of the poetry collections. Her poetry, prose, and critical writing have been published and anthologized both nationally and internationally in numerous publications. She is the founder and editor of Off the Margins, a website 鈥渢hat pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience.鈥� Her poetry has been nominated four times for the prestigious Pushcart Award. She was a founding member of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project and co-founder and editor of鈥疎ntelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas and currently serves on the board of the Monadnock Writers鈥� Group. She is committed to community-based creative collaboration and is an active presenter for the NH Humanities to Go Program with her program titled 鈥淔amily, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories.鈥�