English Alum Featured in Marshall’s Writers Harvest

Dr. Rachel Peckham

Ohio University alum Dr. Rachael Peckham is part of Marshall University’s Writers Harvest, reports the Huntington News.

Peckham is Assistant Professor of English at Marshall.

Peckham holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from Ohio University. Her essays and poems can be found in numerous journals and magazines, including Brevity, Calliope, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Passages North, Sentence, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. In 2010, Peckham won the Robert Watson Poetry Award at Spring Garden Press, and her work received notable mention in 2012 Best American Essays. Most recently, she was a finalist in the 2014 National Poetry Series Competition. She is an associate professor of English at Marshall University.

Ohio University’s Writers Harvest is Sept. 15.