Hagan Faye Whiteleather is an MFA candidate in ISU’s Creative Writing and Environment program. Hagan graduated Summa Cum Laude from Kent State University with degrees in English and Psychology, a minor in Writing, and a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language. She was also president of the English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, and editor of her university’s literature and arts magazine, Luna Negra. Hagan’s writing is generally of the creative nonfiction variety. Her (yet to be completed) short story cycle revolves around her Aunts and their rural upbringing.
Outside of the MFA, Hagan’s passions include reading children’s literature, watching copious amounts of television, walking aimlessly, sitting in cars, and when she is at her Ohio home—tending to her family’s youngs and olds. Additionally, she is more than mildly obsessed with Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck, Sylvia Plath, Shel Silverstein, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Roald Dahl, and any/all of the Brontës.