Stephanie Vanderslice is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop at the University of Central Arkansas, USA and was the Chairperson of the Creative Writing Studies Organization from 2016-2019. Her column, The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life appears regularly in the Huffington Post and formed the foundations for a book of the same name published by Bloomsbury. She publishes fiction, nonfiction and creative writing criticism with notable works including Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Guide and Sourcebook and Rethinking Creative Writing: Programs and Practices that Work.