Creative Nonfiction (Course Guide / Lisa Heise)

"In 2004 I retired from full-time teaching, though I still travel to colleges and universities as a visiting writer and nonfiction scholar, and occasionally I teach writing workshops. I began writing creative nonfiction full time, pursuing such projects as a family memoir and a work of lyrical meditation on the Hudson and Rhine rivers, and completing Following Isabella, a narrative following the trail of nineteenth-century travel writer Isabella Bird around Colorado" | From: Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors | Gale Literature Reference Center (Library Database)

His creative nonfiction includes essays of place published in a number of literary journals and named as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. "Postscript to a Postscript to 'The Ring of Time'" in The Pinch was a Pushcart Prize Nominee. From 2008 until 2017 he was a visiting faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ashland University and has been a teaching artist at the Loft Literary Center and a freelance editor of essays, memoirs, and literary nonfiction. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

PDF Link. Discusses the need to redefine and re-classify the concept of the nonfiction category in literature. Alternative definitions for the term nonfiction; Examples of literary works and courses wherein the author and his students encountered nonfiction in English courses; Perspective of students regarding nonfiction literary works and nonfiction writers. | Pedagogy. Spring2004, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p289-299. 11p. | Literary Reference Center Plus, (EBSCO) (Library Database)

Presents an article on a challenge encountered in giving voice to the book "Recovering Ruth," a memoir which drew upon the 1848 journal of Ruth Douglass, a bride of a Michigan mining engineer. Actions taken in researching the book; Tips for writing a memoir; Way of having intimacy with a subject. | Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Fall2004, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p127-129 | Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) (Library Database)

"Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story. " From: Critical Essays on E. B. White | Gale Literature Resource Center (Library Database)