Welcoming new faculty members to Naslund-Mann at Spalding University

Please join Naslund-Mann in welcoming three new faculty members. We are delighted each will be available to mentor students during the Spring 2025 Regular and Extended Independent Study courses.

Whitney Collins, Fiction

Whitney Collins is the author of RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES (Sarabande, 2024) and BIG BAD (Sarabande, 2021), which won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize, a 2021 Bronze INDIES, and a 2022 Gold IPPY. She is the recipient of a Best American Short Stories 2022 Distinguished Story, a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Prize Special Mention and won the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize and the 2021 ProForma Contest. Her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, AGNI, The Idaho Review, Gulf Coast, Book of the Month Club’s literary magazine Volume 0, and The Best Small Fictions 2022, among others.

Rigoberto González, Creative Nonfiction

Rigoberto González is the author of 20 books of poetry and prose and is the editor of Latino Poetry, a Library of America anthology. His awards include the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Lambda Literary Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim, Lannan, NEA, NYFA, and USA Rolón fellowships. He is currently distinguished professor at the creative writing program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.  Rigoberto lives in Newark, New Jersey.

Nathan Gower, Fiction

Nathan Gower is the author of The Act of Disappearing (Mira Books / HarperCollins), a debut novel hailed by the Washington Post as one of "ten noteworthy books" upon its publication in May 2024. He holds an MFA in fiction from Spalding University and a PhD in humanities with an emphasis in creativity and aesthetics from the University of Louisville. His work has been published in Had, Baltimore Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Louisville Magazine, Louisville Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, New Southerner, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. In addition to serving on the faculty of Naslund-Mann, Nathan also serves as Professor of English at Campbellsville University and holds editorial positions at the Campbellsville Review and the Russell Creek Review.