Core Faculty
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
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| Educational History | Core Faculty, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program – Nonfiction M.F.A., Fiction and Poetry, the University of Texas-Austin M.T.S., Christianity and Culture, Harvard University-the Divinity School B.A., Religion/Women’s Studies, Saint Olaf College Teaching and Research |
Emily Rapp’s (creative nonfiction) first book, Poster
Child: A Memoir was published by Bloomsbury
in January 2007 and released in paperback in January 2008. A former Fulbright scholarship recipient, she
was educated at Harvard University, Saint Olaf College, and the University of Texas
at Austin,
where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. Her work has appeared in The
Cimarron Review, The Clackamas Literary Review, Body + Soul,
Goodhousekeeping, Terminus, The Sun, The Texas
Observer, Segue, StoryQuarterly, and other journals. She has received
awards and recognition for her work from The Atlantic Monthly,
StoryQuarterly, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Jentel Arts
Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she
was a winter writing fellow. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation
Writer’s Award for emerging women writers and the Philip Roth
Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at Bucknell
University. Her story,
"November," was recently published in Narrative, and her
essay, "Okahandaja Lessons," appears in the Spring 2008 edition of
the Bellevue
Literary Review. She is currently at work on a novel set in Northern Ireland.
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