Intellect

Graeme Harper is Director of the University Honors College, Oakland University; Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries; and current Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) Higher Education Committee. He is editor of the journal, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge), an honorary Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire, and a member of the AHRC’s Steering Committee on Practice-Led Research. He was recently awarded the 2008 UTS Award for Professional Achievement. His latest works are, under his pseudonym, Brooke Biaz, Moon Dance (Parlor, 2008) and Small Maps of the World (Parlor, 2006).

And, as himself, Harper has written The Creative Writing Guidebook (Continuum, 2008) and, with Jeri Kroll, Creative Writing Studies: Research, Practice, Pedagogy (MLM, 2008).