About the Author:
Christian Knoeller served as Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, teaching literature and writing. His work has
appeared--or is forthcoming--in such journals as: Ascent, The Connecticut
Poetry Review, Cutbank, Ellipsis, Folio, Greenfield Review, GW Review, Hiram
Poetry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Visions
International, West Branch Quarterly, and Willow
Spring, among others, as well as Upriver 5: An Anthology of Wisconsin Writing.
His chapbook, Song in Brown Bear Country, was published by Devil's Club Press
of Juneau, Alaska. Mr. Knoeller, who holds a PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley as well as an MFA in creative writing from the University
of Oregon, is presently completing a research study on classroom discussion of
literature for SUNY Press and, in addition, a college textbook on the teaching
of creative writing in conjunction with the study of literature in the
secondary schools, to be published by Allyn & Bacon in 1997.