Born: Detroit , MI
Spouse: Bob Maust (deceased)
Address(es):
Permanent :
427 Burrows Rd.
Kalamazoo , MI 49006
Contact Information:
Phone : 269-349-5345
Email : [email protected]
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.gailgriffin.org

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	"The events of October" : murder-suicide on a small campus	Non Fiction , Michigan , True Crime	Adult	Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press	2010
	he Florence J. Lucasse Teaching lectures : The first twenty-five years at Kalamazoo Colelge - Editor	Non Fiction , Michigan History	Adult	Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College	2006
	Season of the Witch : Border Lines, Marginal Notes - Essays	Non Fiction	Adult	Pasadena, Calif. : Trilogy Books	1995
	The PrePress Awards : volume two : Michigan voices - Contributor	Fiction , Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Portage, Mich. : PrePress Publishing	1995
	Calling : Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue	Non Fiction	Adult	Pasadena, Calif. : Trilogy Books	1992
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast - Anthology	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press	1988
	Emancipated Spirits : Portraits of Kalamazoo College Women - Co-Authored by Gail Griffin, Josephine Csete, Ruth Ann Moerdyk, and Cheryl Limer	Non Fiction , Biography , Michigan	Adult	Kalamazoo, Mich. : Ihling Bros. Everard Co.	1983
	Other writings: - Wrote English textbooks for McDougal andLittell. Wrote Study Guides for Holt, Rinehart and Winson

What is the aim or goal of your writing: I became a teacher because my own great teachers were such powerful forces in my life. But any philosophy of teaching that I have I've developed since coming to "K." For me, developing as a teacher has meant unlearning most of the old orthodoxy about teaching. I very quickly abandoned what radical educational theorist Paolo Freire called the "banker" model -- the teacher makes deposits of knowledge into the student -- in favor of the midwife model: my job is to help the student give birth to something new. I see teaching fundamentally not as the transmission of knowledge or information, but rather as a relationship and a conversation. That is, of course, an ideal, but there have been lots of moments at "K" when I've seen it become real in a classroom, and I can't think of anything more exciting. Finally, as a teacher I want to play a crucial role as a guide who leads students into greater critical consciousness of the world they have inherited, and a greater sense of themselves as powerful actors in that world. My disciplines -- literature, writing, Women's Studies -- lend themselves wonderfully to that enterprise.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
Finalist,Joy Harjo Poetry Competition,Cutthroat Magazine. - T.R. Hummer, judge	2013
Folio (journal) Annual Poetry Contest - Martha Collins, judge.	2013
Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year - Ellen Datlow, judge	2012
Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, Calyx Journal	2004 -2006
Florence J. Lucasse Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Work, Kalamazoo College	1998
C.A.S.E./Carnegie Foundation Michigan Professor of the Year	1995
Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Association, for Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue	1994
Fellowships: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts	1990 -1993
Florenc e J. Lucasse Award for Excellence in Teaching, Kalamazoo College	1989
New Voices Contest, Poetry Center of Michigan	1988
Fellowships: Ragdale Foundation for the Arts and Millay Colony for the Arts	1987

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