Minna Proctor
Editor
Creative Writing
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Canada
Biography
Minna Proctor is a magazine editor and essayist. She is the author of Do You Hear What I Hear? (Viking), an invesitagion of the idea of religious calling. Her translation of Federigo Tozzi’s short stories, Love In Vain (New Directions), won the 2001 PEN Poggioli Prize for a work in progress. She has written for Bookforum, The American Scholar, The Nation, Aperture, NPR.org, The New York Times Book Review, Salon, LA Times Book Review, Time Out, New York, and others. In addition to writing, she has worked in magazine publishing for many years. She was the Editor of COLORS, and Managing Editor at BOMB Magazine. She is the editor of The Literary Review, and teaches “The Personal Essay.”
Research Interest
Creative Writing