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Nancy Genevieve Perkins
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
D.A. English, Illinois State University

Office: UHB 3062
Phone: (217) 206-6595
Email: nperk1@uis.edu
Website: nyxnox.com

Teaching Concentration: Writing

Courses: Creative Writing: Fiction I, II, III, IV; Poetry; Creative Nonfiction—Memoir Writing and Research Writing; Children’s Literature; Liberal Studies Colloquium: Time; and Graduate Seminars on Creative Writing. 

Presentations:

• Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, at Christ Church College, Oxford, and at the University of Heidelberg, "The Community as Classroom . . ."
  
• NCTE International Conference, NY, "The Echoes Project: Students' Community-Based Inquiry and Writing for Their 'Real World'"
  
• International Federation for the Teaching of English, NYU, USA Delegate, one of 300 individuals invited to attend from the English-speaking countries in the world
  
• National and State Conferences, including NCTE, MLA, CCCC, IATE, IPA, and Allerton
  
• Readings, workshops, and book signings, mostly in IL, KY, and MA

Publications:

• Poetry, NYX: Mother of Light (2001) and NYX: Daughter of Chaos (2002)

• Fiction, "Grad. Ass." nominated for Illinois Arts Council Award

• Non-fiction, co-authored with Loren Logsdon, Adult Literacy in Writing (New Forums Press, 2003)

• Poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction in small literary journals.
  

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