Christie Hodgen
Assistant Professor
Graduate & Doctoral Faculty
112 Cockefair Hall
816.235.5974
hodgenc@umkc.edu
Office Hours: Friday 10:00-12:00 or by appointment

Christie Hodgen is the author of A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw (UMASS, 2003), winner of the AWP Award in Fiction, and Hello, I Must Be Going (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006), which was featured in Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers series.  Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Oxford American, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and New Stories from the South.  Her awards include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.

Degrees:

• Ph.D., English, University of Missouri (2006)
• M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Indiana University (1999)
  
• B.A., English, University of Virginia (1996)

Areas of Specialization:

• Fiction Writing
• History of the Short Story
• American Literature 1865-present
  

Courses:

• English 312: Introduction to Prose Writing
• English 432: Intermediate Prose Writing
• English 5555: Graduate Workshop in Prose Writing
• English 437: Prose Forms
• English 321: American Literature II