Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Composition Studies as a Creative Art -- I. Teaching Writing and Teaching Writing Teachers -- 1. Finding a Family, Finding a Voice: A Writing Teacher Teaches Writing Teachers -- 2. Teaching My Class -- 3. Freshman Composition as a Middle-Class Enterprise -- 4. Textual Terror, Textual Power: Teaching Literature Through Writing Literature -- 5. American Autobiography and the Politics of Genre -- II. Teaching and Writing Creative Nonfiction -- 6. Teaching College English as a Woman -- 7. Creative Nonfiction, Is There Any Other Kind? -- 8. Reading, Writing, Teaching Essays as Jazz -- 9. Why Don't We Write What We Teach? And Publish It? -- 10. Subverting the Academic Masterplot -- III. Creative Scholarship and Publication in Composition Studies -- 11. Coming of Age in the Field That Had No Name -- 12. Anxious Writers in Context -- 13. "I Write for Myself and Strangers": Private Diaries as Public Documents -- 14. Making Essay Connections: Editing Readers for First-Year Writers -- 15. The Importance of External Reviews in Composition Studies -- IV. Writing Program Administration as a Creative Enterprise -- 16. I Want a Writing Director -- 17. Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades -- 18. Initiation Rites, Initiation Rights / with Thomas Recchio -- 19. Making a Difference: Writing Program Administration as a Creative Process -- 20. Bloom's Laws -- Afterword: Free Play -- Works Cited -- Index.