Richard Mulkey

Professor Mulkey directs the BFA program in Creative & Professional Writing. He has been a visiting writer at Ohio Wesleyan University, Michigan State University, Wichita State University and Radford University, among others. Mulkey is the former Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Converse.

Mulkey has taught at a number of universities and writing workshops in the United States and Europe. His teaching interests at Converse include Creative Writing, Poetry, Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and Science and Literature.

He has received several awards including the Hawthornden Fellowship and the Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Award. Mulkey also received Converse College’s O’Herron Award for Faculty Excellence.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Professor Rick Mulkey is the author of five poetry collections including: Toward Any Darkness, Before the Age of Reason, Bluefield Breakdown, and Greatest Hits: 1994-2004. His latest collection is Ravenous, New & Selected Poems, published by Serving House Press.

His work appears in the anthologies American Poetry: the Next Generation, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volumes I and II, and A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry, among others. Individual poems and essays have appeared in a variety of venues such as Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Connecticut Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review and Verse Daily. His poetry has also been featured by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac”.