Faculty

Amy Shearn 
BA, MFA
Adjunct Instructor

Department Affiliation

• Writing and Speech

Courses

• Fiction Tutorial / X32.9329
  
• Fiction Writing I / WRIT1-CE9320
  
• Fiction Writing I / X32.9320
  

Educational Record

• University of Iowa, BA, 2001, English
• University of Minnesota, MFA, 2005, Fiction Writing

Teaching Record

• University of Minnesota, English, Creative Writing
  Teaching Assistant, Instructor 2002 - 2005
• Gotham Writers' Workshops, Humor Writing
  Instructor 2005 - 2010
• Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, Fiction Writing
  Instructor 2009 - 2009

Publications

• Spare Parts, a short story, Five Chapters, 2009
• Revenge of the Nerds: Where are all the badly behaved writers?, an essay, Poets & Writers, 2009
• The Worst Magazine Prank Ever, a personal essay, The L Magazine, 2009
• Arlen's Arm, a short-short, Sub-Lit, 2008
• How Far Is the Ocean from Here, a novel, Shaye Areheart/Random House, 2008
• The Suspension of Disbelief, a short story, Opium Magazine, 2008
• The Kidnapped, a short story, Brink Magazine, 2008
• Elvis is Magic, a personal essay, Jane Magazine, 2007
• Questions and Answers from the Book of Knowledge, a short story, West Branch Magazine, 2006
• The Windfarmer and The Affair, poems, Lyric Magazine, 2004
• 7 am and The Visit, short stories, Salt Hill Magazine, 2002