Professor

office: 83 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-1120
email: lewistr@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~lewistr
office hours: M 4:30-5:30 pm;
W 2:00-3:00 pm

Research and teaching areas:
creative writing-fiction and
women's literature
 

Trudy Lewis

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 womens studies. Some recent topics have been: Faith & Works, Feminist Citizenship, Modern Manifestos, Literary Links, Chamber of Horrors, and Memos for the Millennium. Trudy is also active in the Anvil/lyre Studio founded by her husband Mike Barrett.

Education
PhD 1992, University of Illinois-Chicago

Selected Publications

• "Mother of Animals" Drunken Boat Forthcoming
• "Lazy Susan" Cream City Review (Forthcoming, 2008)
• "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
• English 2510:03 Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction
• English 4510/7510
• English 4510/7510: Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction
• English 4510/7510: Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction
• English 8510: Advanced Writing of Fiction

Selected Awards

• Faculty-Alumni Award
• Glenna Luschei Award

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