Rebecca Manery

Rebecca Manery oversees the annual Hopwood Awards writing contests, curates the Hopwood Library, and manages the Hopwood Room and Hopwood Program events. She taught creative writing and composition as an Assistant Professor at Ball State University and as a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan. She also taught graduate courses in literacy education and co-directed a Young Adult Literature Conference for Northeastern Illinois University. Rebecca is the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l'Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016); her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Rhino, The Arts Politic, and other literary journals. A former arts journalist, dramaturg, and arts administrator for professional theatres in New York City and Chicago, she also worked as a writer in the schools and as a literacy consultant in Chicago. She co-edited and contributed to the tenth anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? (Bloomsbury, 2017). Her article, "Revisiting the Pedagogy and Theory Corral: Creative Writing Pedagogy Teachers' Conceptions of Pedagogic Identity," based on her dissertation, was published in New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing where she has also served as a peer reviewer. She loves writing, reading, and encouraging readers and writers of all ages.