Faculty

Hilene Flanzbaum - Professor, MFA Program Director
(317) 940-9860
hflanzba@butler.edu
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Hilene Flanzbaum earned her BA from Brandeis, MA from Johns Hopkins, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is the editor of the Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, and The Americanization of the Holocaust, published by Johns Hopkins UP in 1999.  Her essays and poetry have been widely published in venues such as O, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and Tikkun.

Dan Barden - Professor
(317) 940-9688
dbarden@butler.edu
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Dan Barden received his BA from UC-Berkeley and his MFA from Columbia University.  He is the author of John Wayne: A Novel, published by Doubleday (1997), and The Next Right Thing (Dial Press, 2011). His essays have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Details, and Poets and Writers, among other journals and anthologies.

Chris Forhan - Associate Professor
(317) 940-9865
cforhan@butler.edu
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Chris Forhan earned an MA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Forgive Us Our Happiness (1999), co-winner of the Bakeless Prize; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (2003), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Black Leapt In (2009), winner of the Barrow Street Press Book Prize and the Best Book of Indiana Award.  Forhan's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and in Poetry, Paris Review, New England Review, and other journals, and he has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes.

Andrew Levy - Professor
(317) 940-9803
alevy@butler.edu
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Andrew Levy received his BA from Brown, MA from Johns Hopkins, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The First Emancipator (2005), winner of the Slatten Prize for biography, and A Brain Wider Than The Sky: A Migraine Diary (2009), co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction (1997), and co-author of the textbook Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion (1995).  His essays and reviews have appeared in Best American Essays, Harper's, the American Scholar, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere.

Alessandra Lynch - Continuing Instructor
(317) 940-9500
ajlynch1@butler.edu

Alessandra Lynch holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers's Workshop. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and other journals.  She is the author of of Sails the Wind Left Behind (2002), winner of the Alice James Books New England / New York Competition, and It was a terrible cloud at twilight (2008), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize.

Susan Neville - Professor, Director of Creative Writing
(317) 940-9676
sneville@butler.edu
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Susan Neville is the author of four works of creative nonfiction: Indiana Winter; Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning; Twilight in Arcadia; Iconography: A Writer's Meditation; and Sailing the Inland Sea. Her short fiction includes In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize and listed as a 'Notable Book' by the Chicago Tribune, and Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology and in Extreme Fiction (Longman) and The Story Behind the Story (Norton.) In November 2010, Indiana University Press released her Butler's Big Dance, a book of nonfiction about Butler University and the NCAA men's basketball tournament.