Hilary M Plum
 Title: Assistant Professor
Associate Director, CSU Poetry Center
 Dept: English
 Office: RT 1828
 Phone: 216-687-3967
 Email: h.plum@csuohio.edu
 Web: http://www.hilaryplum.com
 Blog: http://hilaryplum.substack.com
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1828, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Education:
MFA, Creative Writing / Fiction, UMass Amherst, 2011
B.A., English and Religion, Amherst College, 2004
 
Brief Bio:
Hilary Plum (she/her) is the author of several books, most recently the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. Her essay collection Hole Studies is forthcoming from Fonograf Editions, and a volume of poetry, Excisions, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She was the recipient of the GLCA New Writers Award for the work of nonfiction Watchfires. She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics, and she co-edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press with Zach Savich. Recent work has appeared in Granta, College Literature, American Poetry Review, Fence, and elsewhere.

Plum teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary editing & publishing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program. She is interim director of the CSU Poetry Center (www.csupoetrycenter.com), where she organizes the Lighthouse Reading Series and the NEOMFA Writers at Work Colloquium.