Creative Writing Minor
Requirements
Creative Writing Minor
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Program Type
Faculty

- B.A.Bloomfield College
- M.F.A.National University

- B.A.F.D.U. - Rutherford
- M.F.A.Brooklyn College - C.U.N.Y

- B.A.Fairleigh Dickinson University
- M.F.A.Brooklyn College
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York B.A., English, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford New Jersey, cum laude
Publications: Meadowland Take My Hand, Three Mile Harbor Press, 2017. Her second collection of poetry, Femistry, is forthcoming in 2023, Three Mile Harbor Press
Awards/Grants: From The Center of Peace, Justice and Reconciliation for a Pilot Project for curriculum development related to social issues and justice as classroom curriculum, 2011. This curriculum is currently being taught as a writing-intensive course called Conflict to Peace.
What I teach:
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Intermediate Poetry Writing
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Writing-intensive course: Conflict and Peace (a focus on compositional and critical thinking skills that deepen student learning via frequent writing assignments).
- Playwriting
- The Art of Drama
- Freshman Year Seminar
- Senior Capstones/Senior Thesis in Creative Writing
My focus is to create a student-centered learning environment where students can find their “writer’s voice,” to discover the creative tools necessary to transcend a bad or marginal relationship with writing and embrace both academic and creative writing as friends. This discovery gives students a sense of agency and inspires a love of learning that they can take across the curriculum. Over my many years teaching at Bloomfield College, I have happily shared a strong, nurturing rapport with my students. A firm believer that the arts make for a powerful catalyst for change, I am the founding editor of Narrative Northeast, a literary and arts magazine that supports diverse voices and visions: BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and straight, as well as the environment. Over the years, I’ve published many of my students’ poems and creative nonfiction pieces here.

- B.A.Bloomfield College
- M.F.A.William Paterson University