Students should regularly write fiction as part of the process of studying it…

Who Gets To Write Fiction? Opening Doors To Imaginative Writing For All Students is finally out, and I could not be more excited to share it with you. (Order here)

This book has been in the works for some time. I started thinking seriously about the topic in 2014. It took me years of experimentation, conversation, writing—both mine and my students’—and revision to clarify the concepts and methods I was developing in my classroom. I’m ready for a much larger conversation about how we bring students into the process of writing literature as they study it. The academic benefits are mind-blowing, and the humanizing effects are desperately needed.