Janet Burroway, an MA from Cambridge (England), was awarded the Florida Humanities Council's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing. She is the author of eight novels as well as short fiction, plays,poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children's books. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (tenth edition, University of Chicago Press), is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a fifth edition. Her most recent novel is Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009; Hopcyn Press, London, 2013) and her memoir Losing Tim was published in 2014 (Think Piece Publishers). Her first novel, Descend Again has been reissued by Mike Walmer Publishers in the UK. Her play Parts of Speech won the Brink! award at the Renaissance Theatreworks, Milwaukee in 2015 and Boomerang, a modern female _Lear_was commissioned by Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago, also in 2015. She is at work on a ninth novel, Simone in Transit. She is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita from The Florida State University, where she taught for thirty years. Her successful students include Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson, Heather Sellers, Stephen Graham Jones, and Jocelyn Culllity.
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