Education

• PhD in English in The Program for Writers, University of Illinois at Chicago, December 2004
• MA in English in The Program for Writers, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1999
• BA in English, College of Wooster, May 1995

About Me

Naomi Crummey earned her PhD in Non-Fiction Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her essays have appeared in Prairie Fire, Kudzu House, and Grain. She has enjoyed collaborating with her colleague, Karen Dillon, on an essay published in The New Territory Magazine and a co-edited book, The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities, in which she was co-author on a chapter entitled “’They’re not learning for our world; they’re learning for theirs’: Changing the First Year Writing Experience.”