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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Faith Adiele Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Michael Dennis Browne Susan Taylor Chehak John Dalton Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Katie Ford Patricia Foster Laura Fraser Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Kevin González John Griesemer Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Bret Anthony Johnston Daniel Khalastchi Zachary Lazar Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Katherine Min Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Leslie Schwartz Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Ashley Warlick Jan Weissmiller Bart Yates	Thomas K. Dean Memoir And Place One-Week Workshop July 6–11 Biography Memoir And Place One-Week Workshop July 6–11 Who are you? Where are you? Is there much difference between these two questions? We make our places what they are. But our places also make us who we are. This fascinating dynamic is the basis of exploring place in memoir writing for this workshop-oriented class. “Place” is the interactive web of the natural, built, social, and cultural environments in which we dwell. More than just sensitivity to setting, place-based writing explores the relationships between us as individuals and as a society to the world outside ourselves. We will explore how the purple sunset sky over a pond, or an old warehouse district full of broken windows, or a community action group meeting in a church basement, or even a shadowed corner in your house with the clock ticking in the background can be the basis for engaging, revealing, and compelling memoir. In this workshop, we will critique works participants bring from home or write during the week, and we will be doing short writing exercises that will be shared throughout the week. Biography Thomas Dean (Ph.D., English, The University of Iowa) is Special Assistant to the President for communications and research at The University of Iowa. He directs the Iowa Project on Place Studies and teaches with the UI Interdisciplinary Studies Division. Dean has published essays in regional and national publications. Books include The Grace of Grass and Water: Writing in Honor of Paul Gruchow (edited collection, Ice Cube Press, 2007) and Under a Midland Sky (essays, Ice Cube Press, 2008).

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