Rebecca Manery is the author of the poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l'Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and co-editor with Stephanie Vanderslice of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, Tenth Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Rhino, Inertia, The Body Politic, and Bennington Review; she is currently at work on a young adult novel. Dr. Manery's article, "Revisiting the Pedagogy and Theory Corral: Creative Writing Pedagogy Teachers' Conceptions of Pedagogic Identity", was published by New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing in 2015. She is a former Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization, and a peer reviewer for New Writing. She currently manages the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan.

Twitter Username: @RebeccaManery

Publications

• Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? 10th Anniversary Edition , Bloomsbury Press (July 2017)
• View from the Hotel de l'Etoile , Finishing Line Press (September 2016)
• Revising the Pedagogy and Theory Corral: The Education of the Creative Writing Teaacher , New Writing (2015)

Awards

• Rackham Fellowship, The University of Michigan(2014)
• Regent's Fellowship, The University of Michigan(2010)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University (August 2016 - May 2017)
• Hopwood Program Manager at University of Michigan (July 2019 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College (June 2009)
• Master of Arts in Reading /Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University (May 2004)
• Doctoral Degree in English and Education from University of Michigan (August 2016)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Children's literature , Poetry