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Maud Casey
Maud Casey joins the Kratz Center for Creative Writing and the Department of English as the spring 2005 writer-in-residence. She will teach English 300, an advanced fiction workshop, conduct tutorials with students, and read from her work on Wednesday April 6, 2005 at 7:30 PM in the Buchner Room at the Alumni House at Goucher College. No reservations are required. Maud Casey’s novel, The Shape of Things to Come (William Morrow/Harper Collins) was published in 2001 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her collection of stories, Drastic (William Morrow/Harper Collins) was published in 2002. Stories from that collection appeared in The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, Confrontation, The Gettysburg Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal. Two stories from Drastic were also nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Maud Casey also writes literary nonfiction and her essay, “A Better Place to Live” has appeared in the anthology, Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and in the Modern Library anthology, Out of Her Mind: Women Writers on Madness. Casey has also penned reviews for Poets & Writers, The New York Times Book Review, and Salon, and she wrote a weekly column in response to September 11th called “Brooklyn Dispatch” for Omaha’s arts weekly, The Reader. Casey has received fellowships for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ucross Foundation. Her new novel Genealogy will be published by Harper Perennial in September 2005. __________________ Visit www.maudcasey.com to purchase Drastic.
Maud Casey on teaching: “I’ve taught fiction in different settings—various universities, domestic violence shelters, and senior centers—off and on over the past ten years. As a teacher, I’m interested in helping students carve out their own particular stories, their own particular visions. This involves teaching from the inside out, rather than the outside in. That is to say, I read the text very carefully in order to discover and reflect back its singular and valuable eccentricities and even idiosyncrasies, rather than imposing an idea of what the text should be. In addition, my goal is to help students achieve efficiency, clarity, visibility, and velocity (along the lines of Italo Calvino’s aesthetic of “hurrying slowly”) in their writing. I’ve become very interested in hybrid forms of narrative—forms that take advantage of juxtaposition and compression. In particular, novels-in-stories, novellas, story cycles, fragmented or collage narratives. I’m a big believer in reading widely and voraciously as a way of learning to write and to read as a writer, figuring out how narratives are built and shaped.”
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