![]() ![]() “Robin told me how much she enjoyed teaching at Bryn Mawr. “We spent many days buying shamrock merchandise,” recalled Russell with a smile. In Ireland, she met Robin Black, a previous Bryn Mawr Creative Writing professor. Russell’s journey to Bryn Mawr College began in Fall 2010, when she traveled to Ireland to participate in a story festival. I’m amazed about the amount of vision and voice in the students’ writing. “There’s always the cliché that if you teach undergrad writing, you’ll get thinly veiled autobiographical stories about fraternity parties,” said Russell. Russell described the experience as “a lucky blessing-an Oprah miracle.” This semester, Russell is teaching Short Fiction II as a distinguished visiting professor through Bryn Mawr College’s Creative Writing Program. Lucy’s Home for Girl’s Raised By Wolves, Russell wrote “Haunting Olivia,” a story about two brothers snorkeling off a shipwreck in Cuba. As part of her 2006 short story collection, St. During Putney Student Travel, she visited a site of a shipwreck in Cuba. For Russell, 30, geographical settings have a way of sneaking into her fiction. ![]()
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