Instructor Bios
Sarah blackman
email: sblackman@greenvilleschools.us
Sarah Blackman is a poet, fiction and creative non-fiction author originally from the Washington D.C. area. She graduated from Washington College, summa cum laude, with a BA in English, minor Creative Writing, and earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2007 with a primary concentration in fiction and a secondary concentration in poetry. Her poetry and prose has been published in a number of journals and magazines, including The Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, and American Poetry Review among others. Blackman is the co-fiction editor of DIAGRAM, the fiction editor of Cherry Tree and the founding editor of Crashtest, an online magazine for high school age writers which she edits alongside her students at the Fine Arts Center. Additionally, she is a fiction reviewer for Kirkus. Her story collection Mother Box was the winner of the 2012 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by FC2 in 2013. Her novel, Hex, was published by the same press in April, 2016. In 2018 she joined the board of FC2 and in 2020 she was awarded a South Carolina Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship. She is represented by the Wylie Agency.
Dr. Marream Krollos
email: mkrollos@gmail.com
Marream Krollos has taught writing, and literature in the United States and abroad, including Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Albania, in addition to the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and Wake Forest University. With an MFA in poetry and PhD focusing on fiction she is multi genre writer with a poetry volume Sermons, novella Stan, and collection Big City. Her stories and poems have been published in various journals including Western Humanities Review, Your Impossible Voice, and Literature Hub. Her stories 12 Minutes (2005) and Rock Star (2019) have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently on the board of FC2/University of Alabama Press.
instructor portfolio
Link to review of Mother Box in Kenyon Review online
Link to review of Hex in Forwards Review
Link to Greenville County Schools profile
Link to stories published in Conjunctions
Link to Clemson Literary Festival 2019 interview
Link to Crashtest, the Fine Arts Center's online literary magazine.