Caroline Maun

Caroline Maun

Caroline Maun teaches creative writing and American literature. She is the editor of "The Collected Poetry of Evelyn Scott" and author of "Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle." Her poetry publications include the volumes "The Sleeping, What Remains" and three chapbooks, "Cures and Poisons and Greatest Hits," with Pudding House Press, and "Accident," with Alice Greene & Co. Her poetry has appeared in "The Bear River Review, Third Wednesday, Peninsula Poets," and "Eleven Eleven." She served as Director of Graduate Studies in English from 2014-2018 and as Chairperson of the English Department from 2018-2024.

Research

American Literature (20th c. writing by women) and creative writing

Education

• Ph.D. in English, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1998
• M.A. in English, North Carolina State University, 1992
• B.A. in English, Eckerd College, 1990

Awards and grants

• Outstanding Graduate Director, 2017
• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015
• WSU Career Development Chair, 2014
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2013
• Bear River Writers Conference Scholarship, University of Michigan, 2012, 2015
• WSU Humanities Center Resident Scholar 2009-2010
• College Language Association Presidential Award, 2007
• WSU Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award, 2006 

News mentions

• Poetry, prose and music at St. Clair Shores event

Selected publications

Authored

• Accident (Poems, chapbook). Ann Arbor, Alice Greene & Co., 2019
• What Remains (Poems). Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag, 2013
• Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle. University of South Carolina Press, 2012
• Greatest Hits: 1999-2010 (Poems, chapbook). Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press, 2010
• Cures and Poisons (Poems, chapbook). Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press, 2009
• The Sleeping (Poems). Detroit, MI: Marick Press, 2006

Edited

• The Collected Poems of Evelyn Scott. Orono : Hanover, N.H.: National Poetry Foundation (University of Maine), 2005