Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
1. Someone Recorded Crickets and It Sounds like Humans Singing
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
Harriet Levin Millan [+]
Drexel University
View Website
Harriet Levin Millan (MFA, University of Iowa Writers Workshop) is an associate teaching professor in the Department of English and Philosophy and director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University. Her books include Girl in Cap and Gown (Mammoth Books) and The Christmas Show (Beacon Press), which was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and also awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. A former New York State Poet in the Schools, she has received grants from The Vermont Studio Center and from Summer Literary Seminars for travel to Kenya. She is currently writing a novel set in Kenya, Sudan, and Philadelphia. The first chapter can be found in the January 2011 Issue of The Kenyon Review.
Description
The co-editor of the volume provides a personal introduction to the collection and an overview of the contents, explaining that the overriding questions the editors and authors asked themselves in assembling this volume was: How do practicing writers enhance their own creativity, and how successful have they been in helping their students become more creative? Could the very same approaches that writers use for their own creative practice be taught to their students? Could a body of best practices be assembled, or is creativity still an individual response?