![]() ![]() I’ve learned that depth of emotion can come out of minute observation and that repetition and motif are hugely satisfying to the reader. ![]() TQO: What writers have you learned most from? That a teacher could open up something in that way is very precious to me. I brought my poetry to him, and he agreed to stay after school on Thursdays to teach me the poetic feet. Janet Burroway: When I was in the seventh grade at Emerson Grammar School in Arizona, my literature teacher, Mr. TriQuarterly Online: What people or experiences have been most influential to you as a teacher? I spoke with Burroway about teaching creative writing as we took tea at Chicago’s Four Seasons. Her book Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft stands as the most widely used writing textbook in the country. She’s taught at the University of the State of New York Harper College the University of Sussex, England the University of Illinois the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa the Florida State University at Tallahassee and now at Northwestern University. Her experience teaching writing is equally broad. Janet Burroway’s writing career has encompassed all genres-fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction. ![]()
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