Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin, assistant professor of English, is author of The Missing Person, published in May by Knopf. It’s her debut novel.

Before joining the faculty last fall, she was writer-in-residence at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Shenandoah, and The Massachusetts Review, among other periodicals,
Benjamin Hauptfuhrer ’07 is authoring a screenplay in an independent study guided by Alix Ohlin.
and was selected for Best New American Voices 2004 and Best American Short Stories 2005. She has received awards and fellowships from The Atlantic Monthly, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop.

Ohlin teaches courses in creative writing, screen-writing, literature, and film. She holds an M.F.A. from University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers and a B.A. in English and American literature and language from Harvard University.