Jo Van Arkel

Professor at Drury University
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(386) 825-5501
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Springfield, Missouri, United States, US
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Experience

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Professor
      • 1985 - Present

      I am or have been Director of the Drury University Writing Center, Co-Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program, Chair of the Department of English, Editor of the Gingko Tree Review. I am the author of two books: The Things I've Got Growing Deep Down Inside, a short story collection, and Give Me a Hat to Wear, a poetry collection and several other chapbooks. I also publish short stories in literary magazines, including Big Muddy, Elder Mountain, Northwest Review, The Literary Review. I am the librettist to an opera on Thomas Hart Benton. I teach courses in writing and literature on the undergraduate level. Show less

Education

  • University of Oregon
    Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Fiction Writing
    1980 - 1982
  • Texas Christian University
    Master of Arts (M.A.), Literature
    1979 - 1980
  • Drury University
    Master of Arts - MA, Art and Art Theory

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