MR. JACK HEFLIN is the holder of the Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professorship in English.

Jack Heflin’s first collection of poetry, The Map of Leaving, won the Montana First Book Award. His poems have also appeared in many journals, including The Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Willow Springs, The Missouri Review, Green Mountains Review and Poetry East, and in several anthologies, most recently Sarabande Books’ A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play.

He has been awarded Writing Fellowships from the Missouri Arts Council, the Montana Arts Council, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts.

He also co-directs the Creative Writing Program and co-edits turnrow, the English Department’s international literary journal.

The Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professorship in English endowment was established to encourage and reward excellence in teaching, learning and research at ULM.