After Editing Q-C Anthology, Prolific Author Will Teach Personal Essay Workshop - Quad Cities

As a college professor, Urban has taught classes in composition, literary analysis, literary theory, British literature, medieval literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance lit, and creative writing in fiction and non-fiction. Urban's first job out of college was a management consultant in Milwaukee, and after four years in the business, she realized she wanted to write full-time. "Then the rigors of research and analytical writing really helped my creative writing as well. It's nice to be able to go back and forth between both of them, and have them feed each other."

Urban taught early English classes and creative writing at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, for four years and loved every minute of it. "

She's learned from her Muscatine writers' group, Writers on the Avenue, how to "write on spec," based on a theme or topic. "

"That's what I'm writing about, women thumbing their noses at tradition," Urban said.

"There's craft to learn, but when they told us at FSU, you are here because you have a writing voice, because we heard your voice. "

If someone thinks they don't a voice - a "writer's voice is just the way they process the world around them, and capturing that on paper," she said.

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