Creative Writing
JOANNA ROSE
CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Joanna Rose is the author of the novel Little Miss Strange (Pacific Northwest Fiction Prize, finalist Oregon Book Award) as well as numerous short stories, poems and essays, including “That Thing with Feathers”, cited as Notable in Best American Essays. Her novel, A Small Crowd of Strangers, is forthcoming in 2020. She has worked for Literary Arts as part of Writers in the Schools for 20 years, and for 25 years has co-hosted The Pinewood Table, a prose critique group in Portland that has seen many of its participants go on to publish books as well as pieces in literary journals. She is an Atheneum Fellow in Poetry with The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.