Haynes, Douglas

Office: Radford 204

Phone: 920-424-0914

Email: haynesd@uwosh.edu

Office Hours: Teaching Spring Interim 2013

Personal Statement

I write poetry, personal essays, and narrative nonfiction. Much of my work focuses on the ways contemporary places are transformed by transnational forces such as migration and climate change. Currently, I am working on a book of narrative nonfiction about water, displacement, and climate change in Nicaragua.

Recommended Reading: 

• Refusing Heaven, Jack Gilbert
• Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh
• Nox, Anne Carson
• By the Lake of Sleeping Children, Luis Alberto Urrea

Degrees

• MFA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Poetry (2002)
• BA, University of Wisconsin Madison, English and Environmental Studies (1996)

Courses Taught: 

• 354/544 Travel, Literature, & Culture
• 350/405/709 Travel Writing in Nicaragua
• 308/508 Autobiography
• 302 Advanced Composition: Humanities
• 214 American Literature II
• 204 Introduction to Creative Writing
• WBIS 188 Immigrants & Exiles

Selected Publications and/or Activities:

• "Of Monarchs and Men." Flyway: Writing & Environment. Spring 2011. 
• "Which Mob Are You In?" CommonDreams.org. March 14, 2011. 
• "Payments to the Earth." Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. Fall/Winter 2009. 
• "The Door" & "Sunday, San Martin Chile Verde." Babel Fruit. Autumn 2008. 
• “Alopecia.” Bellevue Literary Review. Spring 2007. 
• “Images, Gods, and Iowa.” North American Review. Nov./Dec. 2004. 
• “Seeing Shadows.” Orion Web Exclusive. May 2003.