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Muriel E. Fish

Email: fishm@thomas.edu
Office: 205A
Phone #: (207) 859-1111
Faculty Member Since: 1998

Committees:

  • Writing Committee

Professional Affiliations:

  • Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance

  • National Council of Teachers of English

  • Teachers & Writers Collaborative

  • Maine Humanities Council

Degrees:

  • MFA in Creative Writing & Literature, Goddard College

  • Bachelor of General Studies, University of Maine at Farmington

  • Maine Certified Educational Technician III

  • Maine Teacher Certification, Grades 7-12 and Adult Education

  • Notary Public

  • Master Gardener

Other Info:

  • Scholar/Facilitator for Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care seminars for the Maine Humanities Council

  • Previous Director of the MaineCares Women's Health Coalition, HealthReach Network

Publications:

My poems & essays have appeared in: animus, Café Review, RHINO, and in The Cancer Poetry Project, Fairview Press, 2001

Teaching Philosophy:

My continuing passion is to part a curtain,
that invisible shadow that falls between people,
the veil of indifference to each other's presence,
each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
-- Eudora Welty

Personal Comment:

  • You can't wring your hands and roll up you sleeves at the same time

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