English Visiting Writer Program
Thank you to the Kelly Fund at the San Antonio Area Foundation for their sponsorship of OLLU's Visiting Writer.
Each semester, an accomplished writer visits OLLU to work with students and give a public reading. For more information, contact Octavio Quintanilla, PhD, in the English Department at oquintanilla@ollusa.edu.
Spring 2024 Visiting Writer: J. Bruce Fuller
J. Bruce Fuller 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
at "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.
https://www.jbrucefuller.com/
J. Bruce Fuller 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
at "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