Lindsey Novak

Lindsey Novak is a writer from the Missouri Ozarks dwelling in the sacred lands of the Akimel O'odham and Hohokam where she is a PhD candidate in Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies and a First-Year Composition instructor for Writers' Studio. Her teaching experience is in composition/digital writing/rhetoric, and her focus has been on multimodality while blending critical and creative approaches in her pedagogy.  She believes all writing is valuable, offering opportunities to create positive change, and she works to impart this belief to student writers. Her current research interests are trauma studies, neuro-narrative therapy, rhetorics of health and medicine, and narrative medicine. Her creative and academic work has appeared in The Rumpus, Atticus Review, Puerto del Sol, Stonecoast Review, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Technical Communication Quarterly and others. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets grant, a winner of the Swarthout award, and a finalist for the Washington Prize, for the Washburn prize, and for the Pamet River prize. She is currently at work on a book, Shelterwood, supported by a generous writing grant and fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation.