CONTACT INFORMATION

Ekstrom Library, Room 312
Belknap Campus
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky-40292

Phone: 502-852-2173
Email: writing@louisville.edu

MEET THE STAFF

2009 Writing Center Staff

Mary Rosner, Director
Dr. Rosner is looking forward to this year in the writing center. 

Ruth Miller,  Associate Director
Ruth has been with U of L in various capacities since 1979. She lives in Indiana, and, when she is not at work, she spends time with her large family (including nine grandchildren) and good friends. She also enjoys rainy days, ethnic food, good books, and a good game of bridge.

Robin Blackett, Program Assistant
Robin is a longtime Louisvillian by way of Los Angeles and Seattle. She enjoys reading mysteries and cooking. She considers it great fun working in the Writing Center and meeting all the diverse people who work in and use the Writing Center.

Alicia Brazeau, Assistant Director

Although Alicia still misses the Great Lakes and will always be a Michigan-girl, she fell in love with Louisville when she moved here four years ago.  Now, she’s a second-year PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric, trying hard not to think about the exams and dissertation she’ll have to worry about soon.  When she’s not in the writing center or teaching composition over in the Humanities Bldg., she spends most her time hanging around coffee shops, watching BBC mini-series, and making a mess in the kitchen with overly-ambitious recipes.

Melissa Paige Bone, Assistant Director

Melissa is from the small town of Maysville, Kentucky (also known as the hometown of the Clooneys) and graduated from the University of Kentucky in May 2008 with a BA in English and minors in French and psychology. She can usually be found with a book in her hands no matter where she is, but she also loves to spend time with her family, friends, and three dogs. Besides literature and writing, her other lifelong passion s music, and she loves to sing and play the violin and piano. She is pursuing the MA in English with the goal of one day teaching English at a liberal arts college in Kentucky.

Kennie Rose, Assistant Director 

Kennie grew up in Minot, North Dakota, where he lived for 21 years and had many meaningful experiences. Since that point, he has lived all over the United States, including Minnesota, Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Kentucky. He has held many jobs in the education field, including a position as an instructional aide for an ESL department in an inner-city Phoenix high school. He is currently in the middle of finishing his graduate education. He earned his MA degree in English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he worked briefly as a graduate student administrator in the writing center. Today, he is a third-year doctoral student, where his studies focus on disciplinary writing, learning transfer, and genre theory. In his spare time, he likes to listen to Nine Inch Nails, lift weights, eat Indian food, jog, and watch horror movies. He currently lives in Louisville with his toy poodle.

Adam Robinson, Consultant

Adam graduated from U of L in 2008 with a M.A. in English.  A native Louisvillian, Adam spends his spare time reading, playing guitar, and finding flea market bargains.  He gets his exercise by hiking and playing softball.

Ashton Moats, Consultant
Ashton comes from a small town in central Alabama where she has lived for most of her life.  She received her B.A. in English at the University of Montevallo – a small liberal arts college in the exact center of Alabama.  Ashton moved to Louisville in January after marrying her best friend from high school, Brian.  She enjoys most of all being with her husband, visiting her family, and spending time at her local church.  Her other interests include literature, music, and the outdoors. 

Lauren Hall, Consultant

Lauren is a 2009 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in English and Gender Studies. When she’s not leering at the boxes left over from her recent move to Louisville, she’s pulling her pet bunny from trash cans and experimenting in the kitchen. Lauren has recently come to realize that her dreams of being a reality television historian may be at odds with her other interest: books.

Sarah Humphrey,  Consultant

Though born in Vancouver, WA, Sarah A. M. J. Humphrey has lived in Owensboro, KY, for nearly 2/3 of her life, and now considers herself a Southerner more or less by default.  Her aspirations include writing fiction for any and all ages, teaching English in Japan to Japanese chilluns, and winning the Kentucky State Lottery.  She's pretty confident that she can achieve the first two goals if she continues to work hard; however, she's a bit doubtful about her chances with the lottery, seeing as she never purchases any lotto tickets.  Funny how that works.

Kristen Miller, Consultant

Kristen is a first year graduate student in English. She received her BA in English at the University of Kansas (rock, chalk!) in 2005 and has spent the intervening four years teaching elementary special education and working as a coffee shop barista.

While at KU she became involved with English alternative theater and, through their support, sent a short play to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival where it took first place in 2004. Since that time, she has published poetry and personal essays in various literary magazines.

She has lived in Louisville three years with her husband and cat, Mark and Honey, respectively. Currently she is the managing editor of Travelogue magazine and does public relations work for a couple of local businesses. Her favorite way to pass a morning is with Mark and Honey on her front porch, reading and drinking cup after cup of tea.

Amanda Phillips, Consultant

Amanda graduated from the College of Wooster in 2005 with a BA in English and a minor in Women’s Studies.   After graduation, she kept busy first as a substitute teacher in her hometown of Frankfort, then as an environmental education intern at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County.  When Amanda isn’t reading, she’s probably going for a walk in Old Louisville or convincing her fiancé to try a new restaurant with her. 

Kathryn Perry, Consultant

After several years of teaching English abroad and working in college admission stateside, Kathryn is currently pursuing her MA in English and concentrating in Rhetoric and Composition.  An Atlanta native, this is her first time in Kentucky and she is particularly looking forward to the farmer’s markets and parks of Louisville.  In her free time, she dances salsa and plays Ultimate Frisbee. 

Amanda Peck, Consultant

Amanda currently lives in Crestwood, KY with her husband, Greg Hensley, their two Manx cats, and four hyperactive koi. Although she holds her first B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, she has since given in to her great love of writing, remaining in the Creative Writing program at UofL ever since. While she spends much of her free time refurbishing her home, practicing origami, and cooking Indian food, she is always planning new trips to take and is slowly trying to make her way around the world.