Becky Bradway, MFA, PhD
Becky Bradway has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and novel excerpts in the North American Review, DoubleTake, E: The Environmental Journal, The Antioch Review, and many other places. A recent story was an Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories 2007. A craft book/anthology, Creating Creative Nonfiction, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2009. Her collection of literary essays, Pink Houses and Family Taverns, was published by Indiana University Press, as was a collection that she edited, In the Middle of the Middle West.
Her current creative projects include a nonfiction novel about poets Vachel Lindsay and Sara Teasdale; a random collection of literary essays about subjects like Hunter S. Thompson and her Highlands neighborhood; and a music blog, Rhythm Participle (which can be found at http://www.rhythmparticiple.wordpress.com).
She teaches creative nonfiction in the graduate creative writing programs at Wilkes University (in Wilkes-Barre, PA) and Northwestern University (Chicago), and occasionally at University of Denver. She received her PhD from Illinois State University, where she worked and taught with David Foster Wallace. Years previous, she went to the graduate writing program at Columbia University in New York.
After most of a lifetime in Illinois, she moved with her husband and pets to Denver, where she remains stunned by the presence of mountains.
This instructor has no new classes scheduled at this time.