Rate My Professor Harvey Lillywhite

Dr. Harvey Lillywhite is a Professor of English at Towson University, where he has been teaching since 1984. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. He has served as Past Director of Towson University’s graduate program in Professional Writing and Acting Director of the Business, Communication, and the Liberal Arts minor in the Interdisciplinary Studies program. His academic interests include poetry, business writing, and editing. Lillywhite teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business and workplace writing, editing, poetry and creative writing, and topics in writing.

He has authored two books of poetry, Ephemeral Blues and Your Unfathomable Wardrobe, with poems published in journals such as Poetry East, Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Kansas Quarterly, and Ploughshares, among many others. His workplace writing textbooks are Mastering Workplace Writing and Mindful Writing at Work. Among his honors are the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bennett Cerf Prize for Poetry, The Nation Poetry Award, and the Artscape Poetry Prize selected by Ntozake Shange. He co-developed the distance learning course Reader-Focused Writing Tools for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, delivered to 8,000 employees and recipient of Vice President Al Gore’s Hammer Award. Lillywhite has conducted writing training and consulting for organizations including the GAO, KPMG, Whiting-Turner Contracting, JMT Engineering, Catholic Charities, the Army Research Lab, NASA, and U.S. government departments such as State, Justice, Labor, Transportation, NSA, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, IRS, and the National Reconnaissance Office, as well as international auditors via the GAO International Fellows Program.