Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy

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With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing. The original and utterly contemporary essays that accurately portray the reality of the teaching experience.

Joseph Rein is currently the assistant coordinator of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is pursuing his PhD. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Wisconsin Review, Concho River Review, Fiction Weekly, Ampersand Review, Twisted Ink, and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, David Yost recently returned from his second trip to Thailand working with Burmese refugees to pursue a PhD in fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His fiction has previously appeared in more than twenty journals, including The Southern Review, The Sun, Pleiades, Witness, and Asia Literary Review, while his critical articles have appeared in MELUS, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and War, Literature, and the Arts.