Graeme Harper

Graeme Harper is an award-winning fiction writer and editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. The Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization in the USA, he was the inaugural Chair of Higher Education at the National Association of Writers in Education, UK, from 2008 to 2011. For three years, he was an assessor at the European Commission, DGX, and, for twelve years, at the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is founder and...See more

Graeme Harper is an award-winning fiction writer and editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. The Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization in the USA, he was the inaugural Chair of Higher Education at the National Association of Writers in Education, UK, from 2008 to 2011. For three years, he was an assessor at the European Commission, DGX, and, for twelve years, at the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is founder and director of the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, now in its 23rd year. A graduate of the creative writing PhD program at the University of East Anglia, UK, he also holds the first doctorate in creative writing awarded in Australia. He reviews creative writing research for organizations and institutions throughout the world, and is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, USA. His most recent novel is The Japanese Cook. See less