Biography
Educational Background
PhD Creative Writing, Ohio University
Interests and Specialization
Creative Nonfiction, personal essay, lyric essay, memoir, and prose poem.
About
Dr. Rachael Peckham (she/her) teaches courses in the art and literature of creative nonfiction, including autobiography, memoir, and the personal essay. She earned a BA degree in English from Hope College, an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College and State University, and a PhD in creative writing from Ohio University. Dr. Peckham is the author of Alight: Flights of Prose (UnCollected Press 2022); Muck Fire: Prose Poems and Other Cultivations (Compass Press, forthcoming); and the co-authored book Flight 932: The 1970 Marshall Plane Crash and the Story of an American Town (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming). Since joining Marshall University’s faculty in 2009, Dr. Peckham has been awarded the Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award for junior faculty (2011); the Pickens-Queen Teaching Award (2015); two Marshall University Summer Research Awards (2016 and 2017); the Distinguished John Deaver Drinko Academy Fellowship (2017); the Hedrick Teaching Fellowship (2020-2021); the John Marshall University Scholars Summer Award (2021); and the Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award (2022-2023). Most recently, she was named the 2024 West Virginia Professor of the Year, sponsored by the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia.