Quintan Ana Wikswo

Quintan Ana Wikswo and her teaching (and her amazing writing) truly changed my life as a writer. Her lectures offered quirky and brilliant insights into a broad spectrum of fictional approaches to form, structure, and story. She teaches class with a dynamism and passion that is both rare and invaluable, imbuing the art form with all the fire and heat necessary to get a room full of exhausted students up in (literary) arms. She treats the students like fellow artists, and never condescends or fails to challenge, provoke, inspire...and not along traditional paths of the conventional story, but rather challenges students to explore cross-genre and unconventional forms of fiction writing. It's a tough class in terms of workload - tons of difficult readings and a heavy load of exercises - if you haven't the palate for wierder or experimental writing, go elsewhere (she ain't producing updikes or irvings!).

it doesn't hurt that she's hot as hell.

Quintan has a great style that is both professional and supportive. Her assignments were relative, imaginative and fun to do, but there was TONS of written work to do...which should be expected in a Creative Writing course! The reading she assigns consists of contemporary authors that a lot of people haven't heard of yet, which is a fresh departure from how most teachers choose to approach the subject of short stories. I HIGHLY recommend her class!