Giles
teaches classes in Magazine Fiction, Prize Fiction, and First
Novels as well as MFA and undergraduate workshops in the short
story and novel. A Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco
State University for 17 years before coming to Fayetteville,
Giles has also taught at the University of San Francisco and
at countless summer workshops, including The Squaw Valley
Community of Writers, The Napa Valley Writers Conference,
and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa
University.
Her awards
include fellowships from the NEA, The McDowell Colony and
Yaddo, The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, two
Pushcart prizes, the Commonwealth Club of California Silver
Medal, the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, and (the wordiest)
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Book Reviewing.
In addition to teaching, she also works as a freelance editor
and has edited the novels of Amy Tan.
She is
currently working on a second novel and a third collection
of short stories, portions of which have appeared or are forthcoming
in The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Other Voices, Ratapallax,
River City, and The Southern Review.
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