Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
William OremWriter-In-Residence (2007) B.A., Hampshire College; M.F.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., Indiana University William Orem writes in multiple genres. His stories and poems have been published in over 100 journals, including in The Princeton Arts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and The New Formalist. His first collection of stories, Zombi, You My Love, won the GLCA New Writers Award, previously given to Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Richard Ford and Alice Munro, and he has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His first collection of poems, Our Purpose in Speaking, has been honored three times as a finalist in national competitions including, most recently, the Neruda Prize. Orem also works as a popular science journalist. His science reporting is often heard on NPR's A Moment of Science, and he writes a weekly blog for the Foundational Questions Institute, an MIT-based organization that funds research into mind-bending physics and cosmology. His first novel is under representation and he is currently at work on his second.
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