Faculty

Ian Haver

Instructor of Writing; Director of the Writing Center

Ian Haver
Education

  • M.F.A. in Fiction, Composition and Rhetoric, Western Kentucky University, 2021
  • B.A. in English and Creative Writing, Brigham Young University-Idaho, 2017

Courses

  • Core: Introduction to Composition, College Composition

Teaching Positions & Professional Experience

  • Joined the Southern Virginia University faculty in 2022
  • Writing Instructor, Hope House Ministries, 2021
  • Writing Instructor, Western Kentucky University, 2019–22
  • Senior Fiction Editor, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, 2016–19
  • Senior Poetry Editor, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, 2015–16
  • Teaching Assistant, BYU-Idaho, 2014–15

Scholarship & Creative Work

  • Exhibiter, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), 2016
  • Guest Lecturer, English Department, BYU-Idaho, 2016
  • Presenter & Panelist, BYU-Idaho Pre-Professional Writing Conference, 2016
  • Presenter & Panelist, National Undergraduate Literary Conference, 2015

Awards, Leadership & Service

  • Final Judge, Short Story Competition, BYU-Idaho, 2015
  • Judge, Last Poet Standing Competition, BYU-Idaho, 2015
  • Jury Member, Student Fiction Competition, BYU-Idaho, 2015
  • 1st Place, Fiction, Pre-Professional Writing Conference, BYU-Idaho, 2014–15
  • 3rd Place, Last Poet Standing Competition, BYU-Idaho, 2014
  • Vice-President, English Academic Society, BYU-Idaho, 2014
  • Missionary, Arkansas Little Rock Mission, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2007–10