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Dr. Leah McCormack's story collection Fugitive Daydreams was published in 2023 (Cornerstone Press, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point). She is also editor of Creative Strategies: A Multi-Genre Guide to Writing Feedback on Student Manuscripts (Routledge, 2025). Her creative and scholarly work has appeared in numerous journals, including New England Review, Redivider, and Prairie Fire. Her novel Contingent Contingencies was a finalist for multiple awards, including the AWP Prize for the Novel, the Nilsen Literary Prize for the First Novel, and the Dzanc Prize for Fiction. She is currently working on her second novel [c]o[r]pus.
Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction, & Screenwriting); Graphic Narratives; Memoir; 20th & 21st century American literatures (with special interest in ethnic American literatures).
Courses taught at USD: ENGL 782 Writing Fiction; ENGL 784 Writing Nonfiction; ENGL 781 Writing the Novel; ENGL 792 Narrative Theory & Method; ENGL 476/576 Creative Writing: Fiction; ENGL 475/575 Creative Writing: Nonfiction; ENGL 492/592 Nonfiction Graphic Narratives; ENGL 482/582 Creative Writing II: Screenwriting; ENGL 489 Senior Capstone: Memoir; ENGL 283 Introduction to Creative Writing.
Creative Writing (Fiction & Nonfiction); Nonfiction Graphic Narratives; Memoir; Hybridity; Historiographic Metafiction; Magical Realism; Ethnic American Literatures; Transnational American Literatures; Postcolonial Theory; Trauma Studies.
