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AffiliationBFA Creative Writing
Individualized Bachelor of Arts

Campus LocationPlainfield

Email Addresslaurie.foos@goddard.edu

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    Laurie Foos is the author of the novels Before Elvis There Was Nothing, Ex Utero, Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, Twinship, Bingo Under the Crucifix, and Blue Girl. Her work as appeared in Rougarou, The Rake, Great River Review, Quarterly West, Chelsea 64, Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Willow Review, Coe Review, Footwork, others. She has been awarded Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony; San Diego Current’s Hot Tamale Award; Los Angeles Reader Top Ten Books of 1995; Village Voice Notable Books; Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Wesleyan Writers’ Conference.

    Education

    MFA, Creative Writing, Brooklyn College
    BA, Binghamton University

    Personal Statement

    One of the things I find most exciting about teaching—and about writing—is the process of discovery. As a writer, I believe deeply in connecting with the unconscious mind in the drafting process, in getting at what Robert Olen Butler has called, “the white hot center of you.” In my teaching, I find the discussion of process to be essential and find immense satisfaction in helping writers to discover what is inside each of them. I was fortunate to have the guidance of experimental writers as a graduate student, which was a serendipitous piece of good fortune. There I was encouraged to continue to push my work in a non-traditional direction, which I’ve often said might have happened on its own, naturally, but was certainly sped by their sensibilities and guidance. While I don’t advocate for experimentation for its own sake, I do encourage writers to take risks—to be bold—for it is only through risk that we can experience growth. These risks can of course happen within the realistic tradition, and I continue to find bearing witness to a student’s growth one of the most rewarding aspects of teaching.

    In September of 2012, my sixth book of fiction, The Giant Baby, was published by Open Door Gemma Media, and my seventh novel, The Blue Girl, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. Currently I live on Long Island with my husband and two children; I also teach in the low residency MFA program at Lesley University.

    Website: www.lauriefoos.net

     

    Publications

    The Blue Birl
    Coffee House Press(2015)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    The Giant Baby
    GemmaMedia(2012)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    Before Elvis There Was Nothing
    Coffee House Press(2005)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    Bingo Under the Crucifix
    Coffee House Press(2002)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    Twinship
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt(1999)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist
    Coffee House Press(1997)
    Authored by Laurie Foos
    Ex Utero
    Coffee House Press(1995)
    Authored by Laurie Foos

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