A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

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Janet Desaulniers

Professor Emerit

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Bio

Professor, Writing (1996). BS, 1976, University of Missouri-Columbia; MFA, 1981, Iowa Writers Workshop. Books: What You've Been Missing. Anthologies: Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction; Breaking Into Print: Early Stories and Insights Into Getting Published; Love Stories for the Time Being. Publications: Seattle Review; Glimmer Train; Chelsea; Ploughshares; The New Yorker. Bibliography: San Francisco Chronicle; Boston Globe; Beatrice; Bookslut; Identity Theory. Awards: NEA Literature Fellowship; Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowships; Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award; Pushcart Prize; Ploughshares award for best story of volume year; Poets & Writers Writers' Exchange Award; Michener-Copernicus fellowship.

Current Interests

I'm writing a book called The Between, an unreliable autobiography.

Courses

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Description

This workshop, appropriate for students working on or off the page, privileges construction by way of collecting, selecting and arranging smaller units I call miniatures. Traditionally miniatures in art have been expected to stand on their own and represent compressed essentials of an accepted form, but this course embraces individual units more slant and rag-tag and explores construction with miniatures that may vary in aspect, scale, intention and material form. This course was created to serve students across the graduate division and works best with an interdisciplinary cohort. All are welcome.

Class Number

1142

Credits

3