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In addition to being an accomplished writer and story teller, Claire is a teacher and is currently on faculty at
Hamline University.
She teaches and advises aspiring authors in Hamline's
Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. Ranked first in Minnesota among comprehensive master’s universities by U.S.News & World Report , Hamline is also Minnesota’s first university, founded in 1854, and among the first co-educational institutions in the nation. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Hamline is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and offers courses and degree programs in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. THE MFA IN WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS Hamline University's Graduate School of Liberal Studies’ master of fine arts in writing for children and young adults is geared at writers of literature for children and young adults who hope to be published. With a faculty-to-student ratio of just five to one, the master’s program provides an in-depth education in the field of children’s literature and a high degree of individual attention. The faculty is comprised of well-known, award-winning authors who are experienced teachers.
Hamline University's Bio of Claire Rudolf Murphy Claire Rudolf Murphy is the author of seventeen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults, including Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock; Daughters of the Desert: Remarkable Women of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions; and Children of the Gold Rush. Her awards include a Contribution to Literacy Award from the Alaskan Center for Books, a Willa Cather Award, a Sequoyah Children’s Book Award, and an “Outstanding Author” award from the Washington Organization of Reading Development. She has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and has taught creative writing for many years at Eastern Washington University. From 1994-98 she was the co-director of the Fairbanks Young Writers Institute. After living for twenty-four years in Alaska, she now lives in Spokane, Washington with her family. |