Meet the Faculty:
Mary Carroll-Hackett
Email: carrollhackettma@longwood.edu
Phone Number: (434) 395-2113
Office: Grainger 112
Mary Carroll-Hackett is the author of eight collections of poetry: The Real Politics of Lipstick, Animal Soul, If We Could Know Our Bones, The Night I Heard Everything, Trailer Park Oracle, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, and Death for Beginners. Her latest chapbook, (Un)Hinged, was released Fall 2019. Mary founded and directs the Creative Writing program at Longwood University and teaches at Wildacres Writing Retreat and with the low-residency MFA faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan. Mary is currently at work on a novel.
Brandon Haffner
Email: haffnerbs@longwood.edu
Phone Number: (434) 395-2159
Office: Grainger 106
Brandon Haffner received his MFA from UNC Greensboro. His fiction appears in the Sewanee Review, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Residencies include VCCA’s Moulin à Nef and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He reads fiction for Variant Lit and writes for The Richmonder.
Robert "Brett" Hursey
Email: hurseyrj@longwood.edu
Phone Number: (434) 395-2164
Office: Grainger 212
Brett Hursey's plays have appeared in over two hundred and fifty theaters across the country including venues in Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hollywood, as well as internationally in England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Australia, South Korea and Canada. He's also had over sixty off/off-off Broadway productions in Manhattan.
Ms. Elizabeth Hall Magill
Email: magillea@longwood.edu
Phone Number: (434) 395-2114
Office: Grainger 208
Professor Hall Magill teaches Writing & Rhetoric, Introduction to Writing Fiction, Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction, and Introduction to Writing Poetry. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Spalding University and an MA in English from James Madison University. Her fiction has appeared in Oyster River Pages.