Dr.
Margy Stewart, English Department
Ann
Callies, EOP Director
Hi!
I am the director of the Educational Opportunity Program here at Washburn.
I hold a BS in Education from the University of Kansas, and a Master of
Liberal Studies degree from Washburn. Prior to my work at WU, I taught high
school English for several years. I'm very excited to be working with the
Washburn Writers!
Five Books that Changed My Life:
Writing Wisdom:
"I feel that a good piece of writing reaches across time and
distance and touches your heart or mind somehow. You learn something about
someone's story and perhaps you may even learn a little something new about
yourself. One of the many benefits of writing is that it is a gift for both
the reader and the writer."
Greetings, everyone! I am a professor of English, co-founder of the Washburn Writers Program,
and a big fan of the tall grass prairie. I grew up in Wisconsin, in the Mississippi River
Valley, but as soon as I saw the prairie the river took second place. The books that changed me
most were those I encountered in childhood. Charlotte's Web and the Doctor Doolittle books confirmed
my identification with the natural world and Nancy Drew showed me girls can be in the driver's seat
oh, that roadster!). Great Men of Medicine taught me that institutions will fight challenges to their
authority, while Doris Lessing showed me that women had had to fight to assume some authority of
their own.
Five Books that Changed My Life:
Words of Writing Wisdom:
"Writing is a form of speaking but it is also a form of listening. Sometimes the world uses our own words to tell us what we need to hear."