{"id":91,"date":"2011-03-20T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T05:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nataliethompsonfolio\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T04:59:00","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nataliethompsonfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hanging out in Vancouver Chinatown.<\/p><\/div>\n

Whether we have met in person, or you are meeting me via this website, welcome to my electronic teaching portfolio.\u00a0 This site captures my life as a teacher of creative writing\u2014a collection of my teaching experiences thus far, as well as my reflections on teaching.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you are here and am eager to show you what teaching means to me and how I\u2019ve shared my passion for it with others.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Reading my work at a poetry reading.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am completing my Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia<\/a> in the city of Vancouver, Canada.\u00a0 I have three concentrations of study\u2014poetry, fiction, non-fiction\u2014and my thesis will be a manuscript of poetry in both verse and prose poems.\u00a0 The UBC Creative Writing Department is keenly interested in the pedagogy of creative writing, and I have benefited in manifold ways:<\/p>\n