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by William Bradley; Joanne Diaz; Tim Hetland; Emily Isaacson; Michael Kardos; Ayse Papatya Bucak

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LitBits Blog

Ideas for Teaching Literature and Creative Writing

First Edition ©2012

ISBN-10: 1-4576-1807-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1807-9
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Authors
William Bradley

William Bradley

Author

William Bradley's nonfiction and commentaries on nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, including The Missouri Review, The Normal School, Brevity, College English, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the Assistant Editor of the magazine River Teeth, and he teaches at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC. 

Joanne Diaz

Joanne Diaz

Author

Joanne Diaz (Joanne-Diaz.com) is a poet and Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University where she teaches literature and creative writing. She received her MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times fellow; and her Ph.D. in English literature from Northwestern University. Diaz's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her book, The Lessons, won the Gerald Cable first book award from Silverfish Review Press and was published in spring 2011. Diaz writes for Bedford's LitBits, where she blogs about teaching poetry.

Tim Hetland

Tim Hetland

Author

Timothy Hetland of Washington State University is an instructor, grad student, and coauthor of an upcoming Bedford professional resource on teaching literature with media. Hetland writes for Bedford's LitBits, where he blogs about teaching literature in general and fiction in particular. He is currently working on a dissertation that examines the parallel development of the contemporary horror film genre and molecular biology. When completed, his Ph.D. will be in contemporary English literature and film.

Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson

Author

Emily Isaacson received her BA from Augustana College (Illinois) and her MA and PhD from the University of Missouri. She currently serves as an assistant professor of English at Chowan University, where she is also the coordinator of the Chowan Critical Thinking Program. She has presented her work on early modern literature and on teaching literature at meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America, the Renaissance Society of America, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the College English Association. She also frequently reviews books about teaching literature in the classroom.

Michael Kardos

Michael Kardos

Author

Michael Kardos (michaelkardos.com) of Mississippi State University is a fiction author and instructor. He is the author of the story collection One Last Good Time (Press 53, 2011) and the forthcoming novel The Three-Day Affair (Grove/Atlantic 2012). His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and many other magazines and anthologies. His essays about fiction have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle and Writer's Digest. Kardos received his B.A. from Princeton University, his M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State and edits the literary journal Jabberwock Review. Kardos is author of the upcoming Bedford text, The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer's Guide and a contributor to Bedford's LitBits, where he blogs about teaching creative writing.

Ayse Papatya Bucak

Ayse Papatya Bucak

Author

Ayşe Papatya Bucak directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Her stories and essays have been published in a variety of journals, including Glimmer Train, Witness, and Creative Nonfiction.

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