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Dorothy Allison is the 2009-10 McGee Professor of Writing in residence this fall.   She received mainstream recognition with her best-selling novel Bastard Out of Carolina, a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award.  The author of six other books including the new novel, She Who, Allison has been called "one of the finest writers of her generation" by the Boston Globe. 

A former South Carolinian, Dorothy Allison describes herself as a feminist, a working-class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet, and a happily born-again Californian.

Courses for Fall 2009

• ENG 204 Introduction to Writing Fiction
• ENG 304 Writing Fiction II