Dr. Aaron Levy

Dr. Aaron LevyDirector, M.A. Professional Writing and Professor of English and English Education

alevy2@kennesaw.edu 
Office: EB 165D

A former high school English teacher, Aaron Levy is a Professor of Creative Writing, and English Education and currently also serves as the Director for the Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW) program.

From 2016-2020, he served as Director of Academics for the Georgia Film Academy where among several film/tv workforce initiatives, he was able to lead the creation of the Dramatic Writing for Film, Television and Theatre 1, a new ELA requirement option course for all Georgia high schools. Levy earned his MFA in creative writing (script writing) and a PhD in curriculum & instruction from Arizona State University. His first work for young adults, Pizza With Shrimp On Top (Dramatic Publishing), has enjoyed over 60 national and international productions, and was nominated for the 2007 Distinguished National Play Award for the Middle and Secondary School Audiences. His ten-minute play BOLT CUTTER MAN was last selected for production by Thespian Production Inc's for its 2014 Halloween Play Festival at NYC's Joria Mainstage Theatre. Levy’s debut young adult novel, Blood Don't Lie, directly evolved from writing assignments he wrote alongside his methods students at KSU, was published by Good Reads Press. Blood Don’t Lie received the GA Author of the Year Award for young adult fiction in 2018 and continues to be taught at dozens of Georgia middle and high schools. His new work-in-progress, The Student Body, a full-length play, placed as a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival. The Student Body will debut at The Galloway School in August 2024 (see details here).

    • Creative Writing
    • PRWR 6455 The Genres of Creative Writing
    • PRWR 6460 Fiction Writing I
    • PRWR 6480 Playwriting I
    • PRWR 7480 Playwriting II
    • PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Writing for Young Adults
    • STVW 7490 Screenwriting II

 

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