Aritha van Herk

I’ve been asked if I am a writer who teaches or a teacher who writes, but I consider this a false division. I teach and write, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes in a wonderfully challenging juggling act of words and ideas. I have been teaching Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Calgary for twenty-two years, and what is best is being able to make my living reading books and being able to hide in the biggest library in the city.

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