Rainier Writing Workshop
"I am impressed with the caliber, commitment, and generosity of the faculty. Their willingness to engage with us in and out of our classroom made this experience unlike any other I've had."
Profile
Professional
Emphases
Nonfiction
Poetry
Responsibilities
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and poetry.
Statement: "Just recently, when I read David Foster Wallace's description of a phenomenon he calls 'Total Noise' ('that seething static of every particular thing and experience, and one's total freedom of infinite choice about what to choose to attend to and represent and connect, and how, and why, etc.') I felt my role as a teacher clarify and firm up anew. I want to help my students settle and still their vision and fortify their own authentic responses to the Noise that daily threatens us to overwhelm us all. The bracing joy of receiving a real, live temperament/disposition/sensibility is what I long for (and fall for) as a reader. As a mentor, I look forward to finding these moments in my students' work, studying them, marveling at them – and then, working with them, in whatever way the poem or essay requires."
Personal
Biography
Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Agni, DoubleTake, The Georgia Review, Field, The Iowa Review, Orion, Parnassus:Poetry in Review, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She recently served as Visting Writer at The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Program, and at MFA Programs at the University of Alabama and Bennington. Her awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and three Pushcart awards. She is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola University in Baltimore, Md.
