Rebecca Manery

Rebecca Manery received her doctorate from the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan in 2016 and her MFA in Poetry from Bennington College in 2009. 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 Rhino, Bennington Review, and The Arts Politic among 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 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 is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization.