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1) Writing Your Identity - Six Weeks of Summer Writing (Chicago) - 7/13 - 8/24
2) Intermediate Fiction / Nonfiction - Six Weeks of Summer Writing
(Online) - 7/13 - 8/17
3) The Business of Writing - A Weekend Intensive Workshop (Chicago) -
Sat/Sun 8/24 - 8/25
For class descriptions and prices, please visit:
http://www.mamohanraj.com/classes.html
Registration deadline: Friday, July 10, 2009.
Instructor Bio:
Mary Anne Mohanraj received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah,
specializing in post-colonial literature and creative writing. She
is the author and editor of several books, including BODIES IN MOTION
(HarperCollins 2005), an exploration of sexuality, marriage, and Sri
Lankan/American immigrant concerns; BODIES IN MOTION was a finalist
for the Asian American Book Awards. Mohanraj has recently received an
Illinois Arts Council fellowship in Prose, a Neff fellowship in
English, a Steffenson-Canon fellowship in the Humanities, and the
Scowcroft Prize for Fiction.
Mohanraj was founding editor of the magazines STRANGE HORIZONS and
CLEAN SHEETS, and now serves as Executive Director of both the
SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION (www.speculativeliterature.org) and
of DESILIT (www.desilit.org). Mohanraj teaches fiction writing,
post-colonial literature, and Asian-American literature at University
of Illinois at Chicago. She has previously taught creative writing and
literature at Northwestern University, Roosevelt University and the
University of Utah. Her academic research includes an exploration of
black masculinity in the work of horror writer Tananarive Due. She
lives in Chicago and is currently writing a nonfiction
travelogue/memoir, tentative titled ARBITRARY PASSIONS, as well as a
YA fantasy novel and a mainstream literary novel. Learn more at
http://www.maryannemohanraj.com.
Publications: Books: THE POET'S JOURNEY, BODIES IN MOTION, SILENCE
AND THE WORD, TORN SHAPES OF DESIRE, AQUA EROTICA (ed.), WET (ed.,)
KATHRYN IN THE CITY, THE CLASSICS PROFESSOR, A TASTE OF SERENDIB, THE
BEST OF STRANGE HORIZONS (ed.). Short fiction: "Jump Space"
(THOUGHTCRIME EXPERIMENTS), "Lakshmi's Diary" (OASIS), "A Gentle Man"
(HARPUR PALATE), many more. Nonfiction: "Raising a Biracial Child"
(Disney's WONDERTIME), "Silence and the Word" (SEX AND SINGLE GIRLS),
etc.
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Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Executive Director, DesiLit, www.desilit.org
Executive Director, SLF, www.speclit.org
www.maryannemohanraj.com
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