Visual artists often talk about the ability of an artist “to see.” This entails both knowing what to look at and how to look at it to present the most engaging image. Creative Nonfiction draws upon life, focusing the attention of the reader and framing a situation or idea to make the mundane profound and the extraordinary accessible. This course will examine writing strategies such as description, characterization, scene-building, plot, and narration as we explore multiple creative nonfiction formats including personal essay, travel writing, lyric essay, literary journalism, and collage. Through examination of published work, writing prompts, and class workshop of participant work, we will study and practice our craft and work toward “seeing” experiences and situations as storytellers.
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CREATIVE NONFICTION 2018-304
About the instructor
DANA KROOS grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University and her PhD from the UH Creative Writing Program, where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and was awarded the Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction and the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Florida Review, Penumbra, The Superstition Review, Minnesota Monthly, and other literary publications. She has taught English and art courses at the university level for 15 years and is currently a Mitchell Center Fellow at the University of Houston.
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