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Lee Gutkind
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Biography

Former director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and currently Professor of English, Lee Gutkind has pioneered the teaching of creative nonfiction, conducting workshops and presenting readings throughout the United States. Also a novelist and filmmaker, Gutkind is editor of The Creative Nonfiction Reader (a series of anthologies, from Tarcher/Putnam), Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction book series from Duquesne University Press and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference at Goucher College in Baltimore.

Most recently, he has been serving as a consulting editor at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. teaching narrative techniques to reporters, producers and editors on the Science Desk. He also works for NPR as a freelance reporter.

Lee is also a visiting author at the Robotics Institute and is editor and founder of Creative Nonfiction magazine.