New Faculty Bios

Lucinda Hahn
Magazine journalist Lucinda Hahn has worked on the editorial staffs of Chicago, Reader's Digest, and Tennis, and was editor-in-chief of LAKE magazine.

During her tenure at Chicago, where she was senior editor, the staff won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence -- considered the Pulitzer Prize of magazine journalism.

Her freelance articles have appeared in U.S. and international publications, including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, and Conde Nast Traveler. She has been interviewed about her work on national TV shows, including CNN's "Larry King Live."

Hahn spent five years as an editor for Tennis magazine. There she broke a controversial story on belligerent tennis dad Jim Pierce. The article ran on the front page of The New York Times' Sunday sports section, prompting women's tennis to adopt the "Jim Pierce" rule, which limited the access parents enjoyed on the pro tour.

Hahn then worked overseas for five years as a staff writer for Reader's Digest's European bureau. Her articles were wired to Reader's Digest's editions in more than 25 countries.

Hahn now works as a freelance writer. She teaches ENG 477: Magazine Editing: Packaging the Story in winter quarter 2010.

Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey is the author of Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America (Random House, 2008), which received a 2008 Editors' Choice award from Booklist and a best-books citation from The Chicago Tribune. His previous book, The Island of the Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House), a national and international bestseller, was selected by USA Today as one of the top ten books of 2000. The recipient of a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan and a 2004-2005 Illinois Arts Council Award for fiction, Harvey has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of New Orleans. He is thrilled to join the faculty at DePaul.

Harvey teaches ENG 484: Experiments in Fiction: Time & Place in the fall quarter 2009.

Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed has stories forthcoming in Glimmer Train and New Ohio Review, and her collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, which was selected by Allan Gurganus as AWP's 2009 Grace Paley Short Fiction price, will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in late 2010. Other stories have recently appeared in New England Review, Other Voices, Best American Short Stories 2008, and Crazyhorse.

Sneed teaches ENG 484: Writing the Wondrous World of the Everyday in the fall quarter 2009.

Mark Turcotte
Mark Turcotte has just completed an appointment as the 2008-2009 Visiting Native Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Turcotte has been an active and recognized writer for some fifteen years. During that time, he has published several books of poetry, and has regularly been invited to speak, teach, and share his work at universities, conferences and literary events across the United States. Turcotte has been named as a Significant Illinois Writer and has received two literary fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board. He has also received a Lannan Foundation Literary Award.