Then who better to take classes from than prolific poet and fiction writer Jeanne Larsen, professor of English. A graduate of Hollins' M.A. program in creative writing, Larsen wows students with insightful and compassionate readings of their work. Hollins has earned a national reputation for its undergraduate and graduate programs in English and creative writing. Hundreds of its graduates have published books.
Opportunities abound for English majors to practice their craft.
Undergraduate writers publish poetry and fiction in the student periodical, The Album , or the student literary journal, Cargoes . The creative writing program even has it own anthology, Elvis in Oz , to which undergraduate writers contibuted. In addition to writing classes, the English department offers a full complement of courses, including Eighteenth-Century Literature, Modern British and American Poetry, Modern Novel, Contemporary Poetry, United States Literature, Film as Narrative Art, and courses on Chaucer and Shakespeare. The relationship between students and faculty is a special one. Students are more colleagues than pupils.