Doug
Sutton-Ramspeck
Coordinator of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor in English
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M.F.A.
(Creative Writing) Contact Information: Office:
310F Galvin Hall |
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck has been teaching at OSU-Lima since 1999, and he began directing the Writing Center in 2001. The Writing Center offers free tutoring services to students from across the curriculum, hiring as many as twelve student tutors per quarter to complete approximately 2,300 tutorials each academic year. The Center also sponsors two annual writing contests: one for the students on our campus and another for Allen County high school students. Doug Sutton-Ramspeck teaches creative writing, both poetry and fiction. These classes will count toward the new Creative Writing minor.
Research:
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck's poetry collection, Black Tupelo Country, received The 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and is published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City). His chapbook, Where We Come From, is published by March Street Press. Several hundred of his poems have been published by journals that include Epoch, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, Rattle, Confrontation Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, New York Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry, Hunger Mountain, and Passages North. In 2009 he received an Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council.

