This class, which I taught at Miami University of Ohio, met the prerequisite requirement for Miami’s undergraduate creative writing major.  The English department chose me as the only graduate student to have the opportunity to teach this course. Each segment ended with a round of full-class workshops. Throughout the course, students examined the fundamentals of poetry and fiction by reading published work through the writer’s lens. Texts included: The Scribner Anthology of Fiction, Second Edition, The Practice of Poetry, Bret Anthony Johnston’s Naming the World.