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Jim Dodge
Jim
Dodge was
HSU's first interdisciplinary graduate in 1967, which he somehow
parlayed into an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa in '69. After an ill-fated appointment to Clarke College, a Catholic
women's college in Dubuque, Iowa, Jim retired from teaching at the
age of 23, returned to northcoast California where he worked as a
shepherd for awhile, and then moved to western Sonoma County where
he lived on an isolated homestead ranch for the next seventeen years. After
a year traveling in Mexico, he moved back north again and began teaching
occasionally in the HSU Creative Writing Program. In
1995 he accepted the offer of a full-time position as Director of
the Creative Writing Program. Jim is the author of three novels (Fup; Not Fade Away; Stone
Junction); five limited-edition
chapbooks of poetry; numerous essays, articles, broadsides, columns,
reviews, and two screenplays.