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regards her characters with an astonishing tenderness, from a little distance, as if she hovers just above the earth’s surface, still part of its atmosphere, but not confined by its petty passions.  Another great writer, Nadine Gordimer, says you must write as if you were already dead.  I almost know what she means, and I will spend the rest of my life reaching to accomplish it, if only in a single sentence that bears witness to the beautiful failures we are bound, by our humanness, to create.  I read

Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop.  For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless.  Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man

, German Classicism, Romanticism, and Contemporary German Film, among other topics. Since leaving his previous teaching position for family reasons, Prof. Strum’s teaching and scholarship have focused more and more upon the wider horizons in the humanities which are usually obscured in contemporary universities by scholarly specialization and the nearly exclusive focus on marketable ‘research.’ Instead, Prof. Strum focuses in his writing and teaching on who Virginia Woolf called ‘the common reader

officer of the CU Boulder Collegiate Chapter of MTNA, he has delivered “Designing the Sensory Friendly Recital,” and “Hidden Voices: Exploring Piano Works by Black Women Composers in the Helen Walker-Hill Collection,” at MTNA national conferences. A seasoned lecturer, Li has given a variety of insightful presentations on “Approaching New Music with Confidence,” “How to work with a pianist,” “Voice of Taiwan: Ma, Shui-Long,” “Strategies for Performing Pierre Boulez’s Douze Notations,” “Joseph Bologne

 Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.  Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and

magic, I also believe in tough-minded examinations of the thematic and formal elements that we use as writers.  As a teacher, I prefer discussions in which everyone seems to have a lab coat on, detailing the mechanics of the work at hand.  How a piece achieves its force through writerly decisions—decisions which have been guided by thought and feeling, insight and intuition, analysis and imagination, failure and risk—this is what I care about. As a necessary complement to the writer’s solitary work

Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Louisville in 2011. His dissertation, called “Writing Out the Storm: Post-Traumatic Pedagogy and the Work of Composition,” examined the role and value of writing pedagogy in the wake of large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Inspired by programs designed by local citizens to serve their communities after the storm, Scott became interested in community writing and the influence of space/setting on how we make sense of the world. Having spent so much

and dear friend. It is through her honesty, gentle encouragement and support that I am doing something I truly enjoy doing: teaching. Teaching Philosophy Although I believe that part of a professor’s job is to instruct students and give them basic knowledge, a much larger part of the job is encouraging students to take an active role in their own learning. By being enthusiastic about psychology and education in general, I try to motivate students and stimulate their natural desire to learn. To

other narrative? How can this work that seems so different from what I want to do help me achieve my goals? In both workshops and mentorship settings I again stress the concept of community not only as etiquette that should be practiced out of respect within an academic environment, but also as a practice of a working writer. Nobody truly writes alone and nobody publishes alone. In addition to conversations about writing, I place a focus on how we should all strive to support writers and the larger

Opera Theater’s 2018 New Opera Works (NOW) festival. Scenes from her opera Coal Creek, which is based on a community of miners and Han natives in east-central Alaska, were performed at the 2019 and 2020 NOW festival. The full opera will be premiered in 2021. Her operatic works have also been performed by ContempOpera Cleveland, at the Hartford Opera Theater’s New in November festival, the Hartford Women Composers’ Festival, and the Opera from Scratch festival in Halifax. Dawn’s choral works and art