office: 327 Tate phone: 573-882-1120 email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. web: web.missouri.edu/~lewistr office hours: M 2-4, T 2:40-3:40, Th 1-2 Research and teaching areas: creative writing-fiction and women's literature

Trudy Lewis is the author of a short story collection, The Bones of Garbo (Ohio State University Press, 2003), for which she was awarded the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction, and a novel, Private Correspondences (Northwestern University Press, 1994), winner of the William Goyen Award for Fiction. Lewis's work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, Chelsea, Fence, Five Points, Iris, Meridian, New England Review, New Stories from the South, Third Coast, Witness, and others. Her story "Geographic Tongue" received the Lawrence Foundation Award from Prairie Schooner. Trudy is currently at work on a historical novel about 19th century factory operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts. She teaches a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in fiction-writing and women's and gender studies. Some recent topics have been: Energy & Generation, Feminist Citizenship, Modern Manifestos, and Adventure Fiction.

Education

PhD 1992, University of Illinois-Chicago

Selected Publications

• "Mother of Animals" Drunken Boat 
• "Show Cave" Meridian 21, May 2008: 106-11
• "Lazy Susan" Cream City Review 32:1 (2008):135-151 www.creamcityreview.org
• "Homeland Hijab" Prairie Schooner Spring 2007
• "Old Wives' Mail" DisClosures: a journal of social theory 16 (2007)
• "Mayweather Takes the Oath" Third Coast Spring, 2005
• "Limestone Diner" Best American Short Stories 2004
• "Queen of Karst" Southwest Review 89: 2&3 (2004)
• "West Wind" New England Review 25: 1&2 (2004)
• The Bones of Garbo (Ohio State University Press, 2003) www.ohiostatepress.org
• Private Correspondences Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books, 1994

Courses Taught

• English 2189:01: Women's Literature, 1890-present
• English 2510:03 Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction
• English 4510/7510: Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction
• English 8510: Advanced Writing of Fiction

Selected Awards

• Faculty-Alumni Award
• Glenna Luschei Award (Prairie Schooner)
• Graduate Mentor Award