Rate My Professor Nadine Meyer

Nadine Meyer is Professor of English at Gettysburg College, where she joined the faculty in 2007. Her academic background includes a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1989, an M.F.A. from George Mason University in 2002, and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007. Prior to her appointment at Gettysburg College, Meyer taught creative writing and literature courses at George Mason University, the University of Missouri, Seton Hall University, Franklin and Marshall University, and Johns Hopkins University. She serves as co-director of programming for the College’s Young Writers’ Workshop, a week-long intensive summer writing program for high school students.

Meyer teaches creative writing and literature courses including ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing, ENG 261: After Auschwitz: Literature of Witness, ENG 302: The Writing of Poetry: New Poems, New Poets, ENG 305: Free Verse & Form in Poetry, ENG 405: Seminar in Writing: The Poet’s Voice, and ENG 464: Honors Thesis. Her teaching interests include introduction to creative writing, upper-level poetry writing courses, contemporary American poetry, Renaissance lyric poetry, and poetry and memoir written after the Holocaust. Meyer's poems have won the New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Meridian Editor’s Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in journals such as North American Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, Literary Imagination, Boulevard, Nimrod, storySouth, The Missouri Review, Blackbird, and Western Humanities Review. She has published two books of poetry: The Anatomy Theater, winner of the National Poetry Series and published by HarperCollins, and Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, winner of the Green Rose Poetry Prize and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2017. Meyer has served on judging panels for the National Poetry Series and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize.