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Tom Bligh

Associate Professor of English / Director, Creative Writing Program / Adviser, Lighted Corners

Department of English

Get In Touch

Knott Academic Center
Room 122A

+ (301) 447-5045

Education

Ph.D. English, Florida State University
M.A. English, Miami University
B.A. English, Mount St. Mary’s College

Honors & Awards

Individual Artist Award for Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council, 2016

Areas of Study

Creative writing
The short story
Twentieth-century American literature
Creative nonfiction
Editing and publishing

Publications

Selected Publications

“A Treatise on Cover Songs.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, edited by Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. Pearson, 14th edition, 2018.

“Real-life Consequences of Accidents (Which Produce Super Powers in Comic Book Movies I Have Seen)” Barrelhouse, Spring 2013.

“Outer Space.” Improbable Object. Spring 2010.

“Pump Rockets!” Specs: journal of art and culture: Vol. 3: Issue 1, Article 46. Fall 2010.

“The York Brothers: When Being Bad Was Good.” Oxford American. Southern Music Issue, Nov. 2008

Additional Information

Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2016.

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