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Naomi Kruger

Part I Tutor, Creative Writing

Degree: BA: English Literature with Creative Writing - Lancaster MA: Distance Learning Creative Writing - Lancaster

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Current Teaching

CREW 103

Research Interests

Naomi is currently working on her PhD: a composite novel (or interconnected short story sequence) partly narrated by May - a woman with Alzheimer's disease. She is interested in challenging the way characters with dementia are often distanced from the reader, observed from the outside and cast as increasingly medicalised 'others' as well as exploring the way language breaks down, and the extent to which form and structure can be performative, embodying the difficulties that occur as memory disintegrates, and the way this impacts on identity, consciousness and perceptions of reality. Her research is funded by the AHRC.

Publications and Reviews

Publications:

Stories have been published in Wag's Revue http://www.wagsrevue.com/Issue_4/#/119

by Flax (Litfest)

http://www.litfest.org/publications/this-road-we-are-on-flax021/

and commended in Aesthetica.

Reviews:

'With a well-dressed yet unpretentious vocabulary, Kruger renders space and character swiftly, spherically, with precision and subtlety. She finds richness in the everyday - simple details, natural voices, and quiet emotional turns. "Pottery" displays the same effortless, understated grace found in the works of Chekhov, Salinger and Carver. It is one of those rare stories that, in its brevity and depth, demands an immediate second reading.' Will Litton - Fiction editor for 'Wags Revue'

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