Rebecca Manery

Rebecca Manery is a former Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University. She taught creative writing and composition at Ball State and as a graduate student instructor at the University of Michigan. 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 and arts administrator for professional theatres in New York City and Chicago, she has also worked as a writer in the schools and a literacy consultant. She is co-editor of 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" 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.