Associate Professor
Office: 260 Allen Hall
Phone: (225) 578- 3183
E-mail: lmullen@lsu.edu

Current Projects:

Murmur , accepted for publication by futurepoem books in New York City

Teaching and Research Interests:

Creative Writing, Literature, Translation, Poetry, Fiction, and Film.

Books:  Subject (2005); After I Was Dead (1999); The Tales of Horror , (1999); The Surface , (1991, National Poetry Series selection)

Anthologized Works: "Torch Song" Civil Disobediences:  Poetics and Politics in Action (2004); Artist's statement and seven poems, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004); "House,” “For the Reader (Blank Book),” “Self-Portrait as Somebody Else,” and “After I Was Dead” The Extraordinary Tide (2001) “Museum Garden Cafe” collected in Night Out (1997); “His Father” Chick-Lit: Post-Feminist Fiction (1995); “They,” The Best American Poetry 1990 (1990).

Awards and Honors:    Invited to teach at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program 1996, 2000, 2002, 2005; Invited to teach as Visiting Poet at Columbia College (Chicago) spring semester 2003; Invited to teach as Poet-in-Residence at Brown University 2001;  Fellowship: Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 1999; Invited to teach a master class at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop Summer Program, 1998; Linda Hull Memorial Prize, The Denver Quarterly (for “The Selected Letters”), 1996; National Poetry Series winner (for The Surface ), 1990; Denver Quarterly Prize, 1986; Eisner Prize (University of California, Berkeley), 1984; Chauncy Wetmore Wells Prize (U.C. Berkeley), 1984; Stanford Prize, Ironwood Review , 1983. 

Grants and Fellowships:  Manship Summer Research Fellowship (Louisiana State University) 2005; MacDowell Colony Fellow: 2003, 1996, 1994, 1991, 1988; Professional Development Grant for travel to France (2003); Professional Development Grant for Travel to the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain (Mojacar, Spain), 1998; Career Enhancement Grant, 1998; Professional Development Program Fund Award, 1997; Rona Jaffe Award, 1996; Max Orovitz Fellowship (University of Miami) 1993; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1988; Karolyi Foundation Fellowship: 1989, 1988, 1987.