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Sara Levine

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Bio

Sara Levine (she/her) is the author of the novels The Hitch, Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. She co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction, 3rd edition (Broadview Press, 2013) and wrote the Afterword to Signet Classics reprint of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (2016). 

Publications

The Hitch (Grove Atlantic: Roxane Gay Books, January 2026); Treasure Island!!! (Europa Editions, Tonga Books, 2012); Short Dark Oracles (Caketrain Press, 2011; second printing, 2013).

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Description

This is a process-oriented seminar on how to build creative habits. Emphasis is on a de-romanticized approach to the creative process. Discussion topics include the romantic approach (why it beckons, how it fails), rituals, self-knowledge, building a support system, organizing your materials, reading to write, navigating criticism, understanding the larger literary landscape, and failure. This is a good course to take at the beginning of your time at SAIC to ensure you know how to make use of your time, but students further along may benefit from its emphasis on the cultivation of a disciplined writing practice. Requirements include a writer's diary, an in-class partner meeting in which you set artistic goals for the following week, an interview with a working writer, and a final reflective essay.

Class Number

2122

Credits

3