English Visiting Writer Program
Thank you to the Kelly Fund at the San Antonio Area Foundation for its sponsorship of OLLU's Visiting Writer Program.
The English Visiting Writer Program will not be offered this academic year. We anticipate the program will return next year. For more information, contact Octavio Quintanilla, PhD, in the English Department at oquintanilla@ollusa.edu.
Most Recent Visiting Writer
J. Bruce Fuller was the Spring 2024 Visiting Writer. He is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include The Dissenter's Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’
Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He teaches
at Sam Houston State University, where he is Director of Texas Review Press.
Visit J. Bruce Fuller's website
J. Bruce Fuller was the Spring 2024 Visiting Writer. He is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include The Dissenter's Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’
Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He teaches
at Sam Houston State University, where he is Director of Texas Review Press.Previous Visiting Writers
- Fall 2022: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
- Spring 2022: Anel I. Flores
- Spring 2021: Laura Van Prooyen
- Spring 2020: David Haynes
- Fall 2019: Carolina Ebeid
- Spring 2019: Ire'ne Lara Silva
- Fall 2018: Adrienne Harun
- Spring 2018: David Bowles
- Fall 2017: Robert Rivard
- Spring 2017: Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
- Fall 2016: J.R. Helton
- Spring 2016: Lex Williford
- Fall 2015: Gregg Barrios
- Spring 2015: Wendy Barker
- Fall 2014: Ito Romo
- Fall 2013: Laurie Ann Guerrero
- Spring 2013: Richard Blanco
- Fall 2012: David Rice
- Spring 2012: Douglas Goetsch
- Fall 2011: K.L. Cook
- Spring 2011: Andrew Porter
- Fall 2010: Catherine Kaspar
- Spring 2010: Pamela Johnston
- Spring 2009: Carmen Tafolla
- Fall 2008: Alison Moore