Professor, Department of Creative Writing and MFA Program in Creative Writing
Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award. She has also received honors from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Writing Residency, Ragdale, and the Utah Arts Council. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, The Sewanee Review, Story, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review,The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in the Bay Area where she teaches at Saint Mary's College of California in the Department of Creative Writing and the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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About Marilyn Abildskov
Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award. She has also received honors from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Writing Residency, Ragdale, and the Utah Arts Council. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, The Sewanee Review, Story, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review,The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in the Bay Area where she teaches at Saint Mary's College of California in the Department of Creative Writing and the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing | |
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| Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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Disciplines
Courses
- Troublemakers: The Craft of Nonfiction (English 371)
- Literary Selfies: The Art of Writing Autobiographically (January Term)
- Unteachable Magic: Voice (English 264)
- Time & Materials: Craft of Nonfiction (English 264)
- The Volcano of Self: Forms of the Essay (English 264)
- The Character of Character: Craft of Nonfiction (English 264)
- Roman, Christian, and Medieval Thought (Seminar 121)
- Renaissance / 17th / 18th Century Thought (Seminar 122)
- Reading and Writing the Short Story: William Trevor & Yiyun Li (January Term)
- Reading and Writing the Short Story: Anton Chekhov & Alice Munro (January Term)
- Nonfiction Workshop (English 214)
- Mythical Pictures: Autobiography Distilled (English 100)
- Modern Romance: Sex, Love, and the Cheating Plot (January Term)
- Memory Is A Tiny Room Lit: The Personal Essay (English 100)
- Composition (English 4; English 5)
- A Literary Feast (January Term)
- A Brief History of Short Fiction (January Term)
- 19th & 20th Century Thought (Seminar 123)
Links
Contact Information
Office: Dante Hall - 332
Phone: 4360
Mail: P.O. Box 4730
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