A course in autobiography is a chance to tell the story you know best: your own. This class will blend short group discussions with in-class time to write. My job is to help you when you are stuck, facilitate class discussions that spark your interest, widen your sense of the possible, and reinforce that autobiography class is a safe place.

In the first class I will give students their own folder, encouraging participants to think of an autobiography as a book about one's life. The class brainstorms a long table contents, while students write down relevant ideas in their own lives in the folders. I ask them to check the three easiest topics, and they are off.