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Sharona Muir

Sharona Muir, Professor
Creative Writing

semuir@hughes.net

EA 409
419-372-8593

Degrees and Institutions:

A.B., Princeton University, magna cum laude, Comparative Literature, 1978

M.A., Boston University, English & Creative Writing, 1980

Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought & Literature, 1991

Courses Regularly Taught: (Graduate) Techniques of Poetry, the Advanced Poetry Workshop, the Graduate Poetry Workshop, and the Contemporary Poetry Seminar, and two Undergraduate Poetry Workshops

Area: Creative Writing, Poetry

Research Interests: Creative nonfiction; modern American literature; history of science; history of ideas

Recent Publications:

"The Book of Telling:Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives," Random House/Schocken Books, 2005. Praised by best selling authors Alan Lightman, Diane Middlebrook, and Edmund White as "...a gripping personal memoir ... at once her own story and the tale of a nation." More information available at www.thebookoftelling.com.

"The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Reality," in the series "Studies in Literature and Science," University of Michigan Press, 1995.

"During Ceasefire," poetry, Harper & Row, 1985.

Additional publications in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Parnassus, Harvard Magazine, and numerous journals.

Awards:

College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Book Award: The Book of Telling

The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

The Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University

Two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in poetry and in nonfiction.

 

 
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