Rebecca Manery

Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan in 2016. Her dissertation, "The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher", explored conceptions of pedagogic identity among teachers of creative writing pedagogy. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and an M.A. in Reading from Northeastern Illinois University. Rebecca is the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l'Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and 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:Interntional Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, where she has also been a peer reviewer. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization.