Mack Faith’s current work as Director of Assessment and Records grows out of long experience with library work, data base development, and project management. He worked in the secure archives of Baker Library at the Harvard Business School managing a three-year microfilming project that included creation of an electronic finding aid for the National Archives of Japan. During his eleven years as a faculty member at LeMoyne-Owen College, he twice served as documents editor for accreditation self-studies and was involved in preparation of the teacher education state licensure program documents associated with the Humanities Division and the specialized professional association reviews for NCATE.

In addition to his teaching experience—which begins with high school English in the remote mountains of Colorado in 1966, and which also includes college writing and literature courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and adult basic education through community college programs (“The most meaningful teaching I have done”)—Mack is a published fiction writer and freelance editor. His first novel, The Warrior’s Gift, won the AWP national award for the novel and was subsequently published by the University of Iowa Press. Other awards include Memphis Magazine’s annual contest for short fiction for a pool hall story called “Tight Against the Rail.”

Mack has been married to Dr. Ellen Faith, also in the Department of Education at C.B.U., for 35 years. They worked in the same Upward Bound program at Western Washington University in the 1980s. They have taught writing workshops together, and they owned and operated a word processing and editing business. Mack has three children, living in Virginia, New York, and California, and three grandchildren. His parents and brother still live in western Colorado where he grew up.

Mack has a B.A. degree in English from Western State College of Colorado, graduate work in American literature from the University of Idaho, an M.A. in English with concentration in Rhetoric from Western Washington University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Vermont College. With an eye on new horizons, he has been accumulating the formal background in religious studies necessary for an advanced degree—probably after retirement—in theology. Mack is a convert to Catholicism under Pope Paul VI—a return to the religion of Irish ancestors—and is currently a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception parish in Memphis.