![]() ![]() More than half of Riverside’s undergraduate students are the first in their families to seek a bachelor’s degree, and more than half come from low-income families. Smiley, who is 64, says she has always favored teaching at public universities because they “cast the widest net.” ![]() A program like the one at Riverside gives a voice to any student who wants one,” she wrote. “Diverse students have diverse points of view, and write diverse stories. The student demographics and the design of Riverside’s creative-writing program attracted her to the job, she said in an email. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, the academic farce Moo, and other books will become a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside on July 1. ![]() The novelist Jane Smiley did not foresee working as a professor again after she retired from the English faculty of Iowa State University in 1996. ![]()
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