Kent H. Dixon was a member of Wittenberg’s English Department from 1980-2012, where he taught literature and creative writing. As a writer himself, he has published in all genres (primarily fiction) and is the winner of numerous awards and honors—Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories and a Notable Essays listing in Best American Essays: 1997, plus three Pushcart nominations, repeated finalist and semifinalist in notable competitions (Iowa Short Fiction, Sarabande, Midwest Quarterly’s novella contest), and has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council grants. In 1994 he won first prize for Story magazine’s Love Story Competition, and a second prize in ’96 for a Libido competition, another love story of sorts.
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