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Kevin Clouther

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Kevin Clouther

Kevin Clouther

  • Program Coordinator
  • Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Mentor
  • MFA in Writing

email:
kclouther@unomaha.edu
personal website:
kevinclouther.com

Additional Information

Biography

Kevin Clouther is the author of We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories (Catapult). His stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, J Journal, Joyland, and New Orleans Review among other journals, and he has contributed essays to The Millions, Salon, and Tin House. He has worked on the staffs of The Iowa Review and Meridian. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer’s Workshop, where he serves as Program Coordinator of the MFA in Writing. His second story collection is forthcoming in 2023. He lives with his wife and two children in Omaha.

Teaching Philosophy

“I want to help students actualize their literary ambitions and expand their narrative possibilities. I want to help students write new work and revise old work (the proportion depends on the student). I recommend stories, novels, essays, memoirs, etc. that illuminate the paths students are already following and open new paths for students to explore. Mentoring represents an opportunity to inspire within students an awe for something larger than themselves, a wonder for the writing that has shaped the way we consider not only language but also human experience. I try to expose students to the moral significance of literature and the thrill of beauty. My emphasis is threefold: challenging students to think about their writing personally, providing them the guidance to produce original work, and instilling in them a respect for process, as well as the traditions that guide it.”

 

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