Micah McCrary is author of Island in the City (University of Nebraska Press), a memoir-in-essays. His work also appears in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Essay Daily, among other publications. A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives in New York on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he researches global health humanities and teaches courses in writing studies, creative nonfiction, and the health humanities at Syracuse University. He additionally serves as a mentor-teacher and low-residency faculty in Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

• Beyond Belonging: An IntroductionChapter 1: Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing WorkshopChapter 2: Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-AuthorsChapter 3: Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual PotentialChapter 4: Before & Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction ClassroomChapter 5: Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative WritingChapter 6: Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflection on Course DesignsChapter 7: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and ContinuationsAppendix A: Sample Syllabus – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix B: Sample Schedule – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix C: Sample Trajectory – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix D: Sample Syllabus – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix E: Sample Schedule – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix F: Sample Trajectory – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix G: Sample Project – Flash NonfictionAppendix H: Sample Project – Researched Nonfiction or Literary TranslationAppendix I: Sample Project – Identity NotebookAppendix J: Sample Project – Revision for Targeted Publication + Exam Questions

Micah McCrary offers a careful elaboration of a creative writing that integrates multilingualism, antiracist praxis, intersectional understanding, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Prioritizing the culture in the writer’s work of cultural production, this collection of essays will be transformative for literary pedagogy and practice.

Micah McCrary is author of Island in the City (University of Nebraska Press), a memoir-in-essays. His work also appears in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Essay Daily, among other publications. A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives in New York on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he researches global health humanities and teaches courses in writing studies, creative nonfiction, and the health humanities at Syracuse University. He additionally serves as a mentor-teacher and low-residency faculty in Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

• Beyond Belonging: An IntroductionChapter 1: Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing WorkshopChapter 2: Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-AuthorsChapter 3: Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual PotentialChapter 4: Before & Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction ClassroomChapter 5: Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative WritingChapter 6: Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflection on Course DesignsChapter 7: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and ContinuationsAppendix A: Sample Syllabus – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix B: Sample Schedule – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix C: Sample Trajectory – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix D: Sample Syllabus – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix E: Sample Schedule – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix F: Sample Trajectory – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix G: Sample Project – Flash NonfictionAppendix H: Sample Project – Researched Nonfiction or Literary TranslationAppendix I: Sample Project – Identity NotebookAppendix J: Sample Project – Revision for Targeted Publication + Exam Questions

Micah McCrary offers a careful elaboration of a creative writing that integrates multilingualism, antiracist praxis, intersectional understanding, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Prioritizing the culture in the writer’s work of cultural production, this collection of essays will be transformative for literary pedagogy and practice.

Micah McCrary is author of Island in the City (University of Nebraska Press), a memoir-in-essays. His work also appears in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Essay Daily, among other publications. A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives in New York on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he researches global health humanities and teaches courses in writing studies, creative nonfiction, and the health humanities at Syracuse University. He additionally serves as a mentor-teacher and low-residency faculty in Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

• Beyond Belonging: An IntroductionChapter 1: Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing WorkshopChapter 2: Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-AuthorsChapter 3: Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual PotentialChapter 4: Before & Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction ClassroomChapter 5: Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative WritingChapter 6: Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflection on Course DesignsChapter 7: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and ContinuationsAppendix A: Sample Syllabus – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix B: Sample Schedule – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix C: Sample Trajectory – Introduction to Creative NonfictionAppendix D: Sample Syllabus – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix E: Sample Schedule – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix F: Sample Trajectory – Studies in Creative NonfictionAppendix G: Sample Project – Flash NonfictionAppendix H: Sample Project – Researched Nonfiction or Literary TranslationAppendix I: Sample Project – Identity NotebookAppendix J: Sample Project – Revision for Targeted Publication + Exam Questions

Micah McCrary offers a careful elaboration of a creative writing that integrates multilingualism, antiracist praxis, intersectional understanding, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Prioritizing the culture in the writer’s work of cultural production, this collection of essays will be transformative for literary pedagogy and practice.