English Department 100 East Seminary Street
Greencastle, IN
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English department
English Department Faculty
Lili Wright |
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M.F.A. (Columbia University) Associate Professor, Advisor to The DePauw 324 Asbury Hall, CCM Phone: (765) 658-4677/4473 E-mail: liliw@depauw.edu |
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| Lili Wright earned her BA from Brown University and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. Her essays and journalism have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the Southern Indiana Review, and The Florida Review. Her travel memoir, Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog and Just Enough Men, was published by Broadway Books in 2002. In 2008, she won the Mary C. Mohr Award in nonfiction for her essay, “Pilgrim.” In 2009, she won Wag’s Revue’s Inaugural Nonfiction prize for her essay, “The Country I Came From.” Before joining the English Department at DePauw, she worked as a print journalist for 10 years in New York, New Jersey, Utah, and Mexico. While attending graduate school, she taught at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and wrote for ABC’s morning news show, "Good Morning America." At DePauw, she teaches journalism and creative writing. She also advises the twice-weekly student newspaper, The DePauw. | ||
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