Education
Ph.D. Utah
Dr. Harvey Lillywhite, PhD
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Poetry
Business Writing
Editing
Biography
Dr. Harvey Lillywhite is a Professor of English at Towson University, where he has been teaching since 1984. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University.
Academic & Teaching Focus
At Towson, Dr. Lillywhite teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in
- Business and workplace writing
- Editing
- Poetry and creative writing
- Topics in writing
He is a past Director of TU’s graduate program in Professional Writing. He is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies program as acting Director of the Business, Communication, and the Liberal Arts minor.
Publications/Award
Dr. Lillywhite has published two books of poetry: Ephemeral Blues and Your Unfathomable Wardrobe. His poems have appeared in Poetry East, Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Kansas Quarterly, Ploughshares, and many others. His awards include
- National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry
- Bennett Cerf Prize for Poetry
- The Nation Poetry Award
- Artscape Poetry Prize, selected by Ntozake Shange
Applied Writing & Writing Consulting
Dr. Lillywhite co-developed a distance learning course titled Reader-Focused Writing Tools for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This course was delivered to 8,000 employees and received Vice President Al Gore’s Hammer Award for promoting efficiency in government. He has provided writing training/consulting for the GAO, KPMG, Whiting Turner Contracting, JMT Engineering, Catholic Charities, Jewish Charities, the Army Research Lab, NASA, the departments of State, Justice, Labor, Transportation, NSA, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, IRS, National Reconnaissance Office, and many others, as well as many state offices of legislative audit. He has worked with auditors and evaluative report writers from dozens of countries around the world through the GAO International Fellows Program.
He is author of two workplace writing textbooks: Mastering Workplace Writing, and Mindful Writing at Work.