Dr. Stephen Garrison is Professor of English and Creative Writing, former Chair of the Department of English, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). He received a BA and an MA from Baylor University and a PhD from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Stephen teaches creative writing, fiction, writing, and poetry. Author of the novel Shoveling Smoke (Chronicle Books 2003), Garrison has co-authored 7 writer’s manuals in separate disciplines with Gregory Scott and has published many scholarly works.