Richard Meier

• Assistant Professor of English
• Writer in Residence

Richard Meier held a full-time position as visiting poet at Columbia College in Chicago from 2007 to 2008. From 2002 to 2005, he was a visiting assistant professor of English at Beloit College, where he was also director of creative writing from 2004 to 2005. Previously he worked in the public schools as a visiting artist, teaching poetry writing to elementary school students in New York with Teachers and Writers Collaborative and in Chicago with Hands on Stanza, where he received the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for excellence in teaching.

Mr. Meier has published two books of poems, Terrain Vague (Verse Press, 2000), and Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar, (Wave Books, 2006). He earned a B.A. in creative writing from Hamilton College in 1988, and an M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1993. He joined the Carthage faculty in 2008.

Education

• M.A. — English, Syracuse University
• B.A. — Creative Writing, Hamilton College

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