12 Facts About Patricia Hampl

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Patricia Hampl was born on March 12,1946 and is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator.

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Patricia Hampl teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.

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3.

Patricia Hampl was born in St Paul, Minnesota, to Stanley and Mary Hampl.

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4.

Patricia Hampl attended the University of Minnesota, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1968.

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5.

Patricia Hampl worked as an editor of Minnesota Monthly from 1973 to 1975 and as a freelance writer and editor from 1975 to 1979.

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6.

Patricia Hampl has taught courses such as Heroic Poetics, History in a Personal Voice, Reading Across Genres, Contemporary American Poets, Introduction to Creative Writing and Introduction to Fiction Writing.

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7.

Patricia Hampl has taught at Ball State University and West Virginia University, and in 1995 and 1996 at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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8.

Patricia Hampl is a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

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9.

In 2015, Patricia Hampl was an adjunct faculty member in the writing program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

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10.

Patricia Hampl is affiliated with Kingston University-London as Visiting Professor in the Centre for Life Narratives.

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11.

Patricia Hampl was the first woman writer tenured in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

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12.

Patricia Hampl won critical acclaim for her 2007 memoir The Florist's Daughter, about her mother's death.

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