Drawing heavily on the groundbreaking, psychoanalytic work of Oxford-trained Maori David Grove, this workshop employs techniques of symbolic modeling, emergent knowledge, "Clean Language," and "Clean Space" to help writers locate rich subjects, discover hidden knowledge of these subjects, and symbolically interrogate drafts. Participants use life-mapping and story-mapping to discover places of thick memory which provide raw material for writing memoir, poetry or fiction; and the necessary distance from real or imaginary experiences to be able to make art.
Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dean of Liberal Arts
at Stephens College
Her work has been anthologized in Arvon Foundation Winners and Finding the Boundaries. Parke-Sutherland has been the recipient of the Bartlett Prize for Literary Scholarship, the Patrides Fellowship at the University of Michigan, the American Academy of Poets All-Alaska Award, and other honors.
