The Writer's Workshop

   

                               at The University of Memphis

The Writer's Workshop is pleased to welcome the latest addition to our faculty. Rebecca Skloot will begin teaching classes in the Fall of 2007. Ms. Skloot's work has appeared in The New York Times and New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover, Popular Science, and others, including Best Food Writing, and The Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies. She specializes in writing about science and medicine but is known to cover topics ranging from food politics to goldfish surgery to packs of wild dogs in Manhattan.

 

The Faculty

 

Thomas Russell

Director of the Writer's Workshop

Professor

Fiction

trussell@memphis.edu

Richard Bausch

Moss Chair of Excellence

Professor

Fiction

rbausch@memphis.edu

Cary Holladay

Associate Professor

Fiction

holladay@memphis.edu

John Bensko

Professor

Poetry and Fiction

jbensko@memphis.edu

Kristen Iversen

Associate Professor

Creative Nonfiction

and Fiction

kiversen@memphis.edu

www.kristeniversen.com

Rebecca Skloot
Assistant Professor
Creative Nonfiction
rlskloot@memphis.edu
www.rebeccaskloot.com

Jan Coleman
Creative Writing Program 
Administrator
jscolemn@memphis.edu