Bio
Brenda Mann Hammack is Professor of English at Fayetteville State University, where she serves as coordinator for the concentration in creative and professional writing as well as the graduate certificate in publishing and writing. She is the managing editor and web designer for Glint Literary Journal.
Subjects taught include: beginning and advanced creative writing; digital storytelling; creative nonfiction; memoir writing; autopathography (or illness writing); modern and contemporary poetry; women’s literature; domestic fabulism; folklore; children’s and adolescent literature; gothic literature; Romantic and Victorian poetry and prose.
She earned her Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British Literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MA in Creative Writing from Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.
Her scholarly publications focus on socio-medical dimensions of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century fiction by Florence Marryat, Violet Hunt, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arabella Kenneally, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Algernon Blackwood.
Her book, Humbug: A Neo-Victorian Fantasy in Verse, was released in 2013. Other poetry, fiction, photography, and synthography have appeared in literary publications, including BlazeVox, Menacing Edge, Eclectica Magazine, Anthropoid, Mudlark, Wordfor/ward, Papercuts, Gargoyle, Rhino, Bone Bouquet, NVLX, The North Carolina Literary Review, and more.
She is currently working on two academic projects. One is pedagogical in nature and focuses on creativity studies and new media. The other examines short sensation fiction by Florence Marryat. Hammack is also conducting various digital experiments related to her book-length manuscript, “The Living Dead Woman Sonnets.”
She has been married to Laurence Hammack, a journalist at the Roanoke Times, since 1996.
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