Barbara Duffey
Associate Professor in the Department of English
Year Started: 2012
Education History: University of Southern California (BA degree), University of Houston (Master of Fine Arts degree), University of Utah (Ph.D.)
Professional History: She is a published poet, with a chapbook, “The Circus of Forgetting,” and two more books of poetry, “Simple Machines” and “I Might Be Mistaken.” She was also the recipient of a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014, and “Simple Machines” won the Washington Prize from the D.C.-based literary nonprofit The Word Works in summer 2015. The award includes publication and a $1,500 cash prize. She also was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for two poems in 2015, and was the South Dakota State Poetry Society winner in 2013 for chapbook contest with “Four Quarters to a Section.”