| When students take a creative-writing course from
Professor Joyce Hinnefeld, they are getting the real deal. She
does what she talks about.
She may, in fact, have rushed to class straight from her own
writing desk, where her latest short story or her
novel-in-progress has demanded her attention. The boundaries
between her art and her teaching are often porous. For students,
this results in the attentions of a professor who lives the
arduous and electrifying experience of creating stories.
Professor Hinnefeld was honored by a national prize from the
distinguished Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1997, during
her first year on the Moravian faculty. In the four years since,
she has kept on writing while winning laurels as a teacher who
encourages students in what she knows and practices best.
Raised in a small town in southern Indiana, Professor
Hinnefeld obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hanover
College. She earned a master’s degree from Northwestern and,
after a brief stint in the publishing industry, completed her
Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Albany.
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