Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
10. How to Write an Earthquake/Comment écrire/Mou pou 12 Janvye, edited by Beaudelaine Pierre and Nataša Ďurovičová: A Review
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy - Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers - Harriet Levin Millan
Sonya Huber [+]
Fairfield University
Sonya Huber is an Assistant Professor teaching creative writing and composition at Fairfield University, Connecticut (USA). Her background includes sociology/anthropology at Carleton University, an M.A. in journalism, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University. Among her many publications in a wide variety of genres are the books Opa Nobody and Cover Me, A Health Insurance Memoir, both with the University of Nebraska Press; articles in Psychology Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Sojourner; and creative writing in Literary Mama and Fourth Genre.
Description
The trilingual anthology How to Write an Earthquake /Comment écrire /Mou pou 12 Janvye, edited by Beaudelaine Pierre and Nataša Ďurovičová, offers an invaluable account of the Haitian earthquake of January 2010. The anthology stands as an implicit alternative to the mainstream conceptions of relevant “public” literary nonfiction writing in the United States and argues that the creative process of the individual authors offers a path not only for individual but also for social and even global understanding of a public trauma.