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Meredith Broussard

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Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing3808 Walnut Street215 573-CPCW

Journalist and editor Meredith Broussard received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from Columbia University. She has edited two anthologies of strange and true stories about love gone wrong: The Dictionary of Failed Relationships (Three Rivers Press, 2003) and The Encyclopedia of Exes (Three Rivers Press, 2005). Her features, essays and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Harper's, The Washington Post, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia magazine. She teaches creative and critical writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Broussard was awarded a 2003 Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has attended the Breadloaf Writers Conference. She is currently working on a book about parenting and risk perception.

Courses Taught

spring 2013

fall 2011

ENGL 415.641 Research for Writers  

spring 2011

fall 2010

ENGL 415.641 Research for Writers  

fall 2009

ENGL 415.641 Research for Writers