Bloomsburg University Department of English: Claire T. Lawrence




		Dr. Claire T. Lawrence Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing Dr. Lawrence received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She has an MFA from the University of Utah. Her Bachelor's degree is from Pomona College in California. Contact Information Office: 1217 MCHS (Fall 2009) Email: clawrenc at bloomu.edu Phone: 570.389.4658 Office Hours: MW 1:00-3:00 p.m.; TR 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Claire Lawrence has published fiction in Tri-Quarterly, descant, Terra Nova, The New England Writers Anthology and The Best of Writers at Work, poetry in The Connecticut Review, Western Humanities Review, Ekphrasis and Gulf Coast, personal essays in Crab Orchard, So to Speak, Puerto del Sol and Art Lies, and literary criticism in ISLE and a study of Edward Abbey’s work titled Coyote in the Maze. She also has an article on the iconography of the wilderness in Nature and its Discontents. Her fiction has been anthologized in Terrain and The New Earth Reader. She was recently awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant to complete a memoir, the first chapter of which won the 2008 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. Lawrence lives in Danville in a two hundred and ten year old house with her husband, daughter, son and dog. What free time she has is devoted to biking, skiing, gardening, reading and hugging trees and supports and advises the Environment Courses Taught Fiction Non-Fiction Creative Writing Seminar Intro to Creative Writing Lit and Society (Environmental literature emphasis) Composition I & II
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