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Laura Apol

 Associate Professor
  Department of Teacher Education
 Ph.D., University of Iowa
 363 Erickson
 517-353-6450
Laura Apol is an associate professor of literacy with a focus on children’s/young adult literature and creative writing (poetry). Apol has published scholarly articles on historical children’s literature, the intersection between children’s literature and literary theory, the pedagogy of children’s/YA literature and international children’s literature; she has also published articles on facilitating creative writing for children and for adults, and conducts creative writing workshops and classes for teachers and students on all levels. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, and she is the author of several collections of her own poems: Falling into Grace, Crossing the Ladder of Sun (winner of the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry), Celestial Bodies (winner of the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Competition) and Requiem, Rwanda, her newest full-length collection, drawn from her work using writing to facilitate healing among survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and translated into Kinyarwanda under the title Emwe N’imvura Irabyibuka (Even the Rain Remembers).

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