Nancy Botkin
Senior Lecturer
Education
B.A English, Michigan State University, 1978
M.L.S. Indiana University South Bend, 1990
Nancy Botkin began teaching at IU South Bend in 1991 and is currently a senior lecturer in the English department. She teaches primarily freshman composition, but also teaches creative writing and, in Fall 2007, a new general education course, Art, Aesthetics & Creativity. Over the years, Nancy has been an active member of multiple committees that deal with developmental writing issues such as curriculum, course goals, textbook selection, handbook selection, and placement test. In 1999 she was awarded a TERA, Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.
In addition to teaching, Nancy is a working poet with publications in journals such as Poetry, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and American Literary Review. Her chapbook, Signs of Life, was published in 1999 by No Exit Press. Her full-length collection of poems, Parts That Were Once Whole, was published by Mayapple Press in April, 2007. She won the 2005 Maize First Place Poetry Prize sponsored by the Writers’ Center of Indiana. Her poem, “Geometry,” was selected by Ted Kooser for his national newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. She is currently at work on her second collection.
