I teach on the Masters and PhD Programmes in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow (including convening the Distance Learning CW MLitt). As a writer, teacher and researcher (including practice as research) I’m interested in: how we become and remain creative as makers; writing fiction and crossover pieces; excellence in teaching, feedback and mentoring of writers; reading like a writer; close crafting and editing; and I’ve become particularly interested in the essay form (from narrative to lyrical to literary to radical).
degrees
- PhD in English Literature (Creative Writing) in August 2009, for a fully creative thesis consisting of Ramshackle, a novel, and microbursts and topologies, lyrical essays
- MSc from University of Edinburgh in Modernism, Gender and Writing
- BA (hons) from Kenyon College (summa cum laude, phi beta kappa)
academic publications/conferences (excerpted)
- ‘I plant a lighthouse here’, short video created in collaboration with artist Amanda Thomson & a paper, at the International Virginia Woolf Conference, June 2011
- reading: ‘Attendance’ at the Woolf Symposium at the Tramway, November 2010
- ‘Where Creative Practice and IT Meet: Teaching Creative Writing Online’ paper delivered at the NAWE conference in November 2009
- ‘Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process & Writing’, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Pedagogical Papers, (March, 2005)
- An Associate Editor of The Seeker: A Glasgow Literary Review (2004-2005, 2005-2006)
