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Dwyer, Kelly
Title: Senior Lecturer, English
Office Number: A127
Phone Number: 608.355.2642
Email Address: kelly.dwyer@uwc.edu
Department: English

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:45 AM--noon
Online office hours Monday 8--9 PM
and by appointment

Degrees/Schools:
MFA, The Iowa Writers' Workshop, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
BA, English and Creative Writing, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.

Classes:
English Composition, Creative Writing, Literary Magazine, Fast Track English composition courses. In Summer 2011, Kelly will teach in the Wisconsin in Scotland Program in Dalkeith, Scotland (near Edinburgh), a class called "British Ghost Stories: Landscape as Inspiration." (see www.uwrf.edu/wisconininscotland)

Message:
Kelly Dwyer is a published novelist and longtime writing instructor who is passionate about excellent writing. She has written two novels, "The Tracks of Angels" and "Self-Portrait with Ghosts," published by Penguin, USA, New York, and two children's books, "Sophie's Magical Windmill" and "The Dream Tree," published by ArchitectureKids. Kelly has received a James Michener/Paul Engle Fellowship and a Wisconsin Library Association Award for Outstanding Novel written by a Wisconsin writer. Kelly lives in Baraboo with her husband Louis Wenzlow, her young daughter Alice, a Chinese pug, an English lop-eared rabbit, and seven chickens. She is working on her third novel, a ghost story set in Wisconsin.
"A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."
--Henry James.