Casie Fedukovich

Casie Fedukovich holds an MA in creative writing from The University of Tennessee and a BA in writing and journalism from Concord University in
Athens, West Virginia. She is coeditor of The Character of Mountains (Walk Free Press 2006), a collection of Appalachian-inspired poetry by Dr. Delilah O ’Haynes, and editor of the seventh Knoxville Writers’ Guild anthology, Low Explosions: Writings on the Body (KWG 2006). As a Percy Adams Graduate Editorial Assistant in 2005, she worked with Dr. Marilyn Kallet, UT professor, and Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet laureate of North Carolina on a collection of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction centered on mothers and daughters.

Fedukovich has had poetry included in E2K: A Literary Paradigm, New Millennium
Writings, and Fledging, and her book reviews have been published in The American Book Review. In the summer of 2005, she attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers where she worked with Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Robert Haas, Kevin Young, Lucille Clifton, and Brenda Hillman. Her academic work has been featured at The Conference on College Communication and Composition (CCCC), the Popular and American Culture Association in the South (PACAS), the Writing Program Administrators’ Conference (WPA), and the Appalachian College Association (ACA) Teaching and Learning Conference and annual Summit. She is a PhD candidate in rhetoric, writing, and linguistics at The University of Tennessee, where she holds the Bain and Irene Stewart Fellowship and was awarded a Hodges Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Knoxville with her husband and four cats.

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