Students work very hard, and they produce some wonderful things.
It's thrilling to be part of it. Collins is director of the Creative Writing Program. The first endowed professorship of Oberlin's current capital campaign will strengthen one of Oberlin's nationally renowned programs, and Oberlin's aspiring poets and novelists will be the beneficiaries. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. Before joining Oberlin's faculty she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she founded the creative-writing program.