Places We Could Never Find Alone

Millard Dunn is currently Professor of English, Emeritus, at Indiana University Southeast, where he taught for thirty-three years.  He has also taught at Washington and Lee University and McKendree University (Kentucky Centers) and conducted creative writing workshops in the public schools of both Indiana and Kentucky and at West Texas A & M University in Canyon, Texas.  In 1990 he was elected to the Indiana University Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET).  In 1994 he joined four FACET colleagues to edit the first edition of Quick Hits: Successful Strategies by Award Winning Teachers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).  His other publications include This Powerful Rhyme: A Workshop Approach to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Co-authored with Ken Watson. Phoenix Education: Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, 2005). 

He has held grants and fellowships from The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Indiana University, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, among them Concho River Review, Film and History, Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review, The Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, Sandhills-St. Andrews Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, Stand, and Tar River Poetry.  In 1983, his chapbook Engraved on Air won first prize in the Kentucky Arts Council Chapbook Contest and was published by the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives in conjunction with the Second Kentucky Writers Conference.  In 1984 his poem “Directions” appeared in the Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry.  In 1994 his poem “Picasso’s Late Drawings” won first prize for poetry in the Kentuckiana Metroversity Faculty Creative Writing Contest.  His poem “Map Fragment, on Clay” has been published on a postcard by This end up postcards.