Profile
Dr.
P. K. Richards received her Ph.D. in English and American
Literature and Language from Harvard University and a Master's
degree in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her interests
in teaching and research include poetry, the history and performance
of drama, American literature, creative writing, and literary
theory. She has studied at the Playwrights' Theatre in Boston
and has contributed to theater and film production in Hollywood.
She received a national Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities,
membership to Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Mu Epsilon (National Honorary
Mathematical Society), and an award from The Society of Alumni
of the University of Pennsylvania for poetry. She has also
worked for the journals Partisan Review and The Atlantic Monthly.
She is the winner of several teaching awards at Harvard, the
winner of a poetry award from the Vermont Studio Center, and
a Fellow from the Salzburg Global Seminar. She currently directs
postgraduate studies in Creative Writing and production of
Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing.
She is the Director of Moving Poetry, the Writers' Series,
and the Drama Series.
Courses
taught in 2010-11:
ENGL2085
Creative Writing I
ENGL2086 Creative Writing
II
ENGL6103 Send-Off: Publishing
Your Manuscript
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