Anene Tressler-Hauschultz is an award-winning fiction and poetry writer whose work has appeared in Best of Writers at Work anthology, The Distillery, Treasure House, Currents, River Blossoms Lit Mag and Word Wright’s. While at UMSL, she won the English Department’s  annual prizes for fiction and for poetry and she has studied with Richard Bausch at Johns Hopkins, Nicholas Delbanco at Breadloaf, Claire Messud at Sewanee, Lorrie Moore at Vermont Studio Center, and Robert Olmstead at Rappahannnock. She also attended two workshops at the University of Iowa’s summer program and spent a month at Wellspring House in Massachusetts.  Most recently, she has taken two semester-long poetry classes with David Clewell, poet laureate of Missouri.

 Author of the novel Dancing with Gravity, Anene Tressler-Hauschultz is very excited to speak with us about good resources she's found, the whole idea of workshops, her writing process, turning to poetry for inspiration and the use of social media as a platform. She'll have handouts and wonderful writing prompts she's found helpful and her lecture time may include some very optional writing that we can later discuss as a group