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AM Ringwalt

 A.M. Ringwalt
Visiting Instructor of Creative Writing
Emerson College
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Writing, Literature, and Publishing
University of Notre Dame
Master of Fine Arts, Poetry

About Anne Malin

AM Ringwalt is a writer and musician. The author of The Wheel (Spuyten Duyvil), her work appears in Jacket2, Washington Square Review and Bennington Review. The recipient of the 2019 Sparks Prize as a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA in Poetry program, she teaches creative writing at Belmont University, the Porch and Interlochen Center for the Arts, and is a contributing blogger for Action Books. She has performed her music as Anne Malin at the Watermill Center, the New Yorker Festival and with Third Man Records. Waiting Song is her most recent record.

A teacher’s sincere enthusiasm is vital for a class’ sense of community and active engagement with learning. Writing is vital for expression and communication alike, and I foreground this in my pedagogy through encouraging close readings and class discussions on authorial intention and audience interpretation. I provide my students with the tools to articulate their creative and analytic insight(s): literary terminology, contextual information on each author, and how each text is in conversation with the curriculum as a whole. Soon, a new kind of literacy emerges: one where the class is confidently able to identify connections and disconnections between ideas, and develop dynamic analytic perspectives of their own.

  • Recipient of the 2019 Sparks Prize, a post-graduate fellowship from the University of Notre Dame
  • Finalist, Verse / Tomaž Šalamun Prize (2020)
  • Author of The Wheel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

B.F.A., Writing, Literature, and Publishing - Emerson College

M.F.A., Poetry - University of Notre Dame