Marsha Recknagel received her Ph.D. from Rice University, where she has taught creative writing since 1992 and was named writer-in-residence in 2002. In 1988, Dr. Recknagel was the second layperson to be admitted to the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, where she studied psychoanalysis for two years. She is author of the 2001 memoir, If Nights Could Talk, and has been involved with death penalty issues since mentoring a former death row inmate, Kerry Max Cook, while he wrote his 2007 memoir, Chasing Justice.

(Fall 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2008, Fall 2009)