71.   Perhaps the most frequently mentioned candidate is Andrew Motion, a poet, critic and biographer who is the professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

72.   Our current glut of memoirists and inward-looking novelists is the result of universities discovering the profit in teaching creative writing.

73.   Ryan taught this summer at a writing workshop in Provincetown and will return this fall to the University of California at Irvine, where he teaches creative writing.

74.   She also teaches creative writing at Columbia University to a class that includes Lisa, who graduates from the status of awestruck admirer to that of assistant and friend.

75.   She teaches creative writing and African-American literature, and lives in Scottsdale, Ariz.

76.   She had been an educator since getting her masters in creative writing at Syracuse University.

77.   She studied criminology, psychology and creative writing at the University of Washington and was a Seattle policewoman until her supervisors found out about her extreme nearsightedness.

78.   She is an adjunct professor of creative writing.

79.   Smith sought out Gilb, who teaches creative writing at Southwest Texas State University.

80.   Star attended the University of Southern California and then the University of California in Los Angeles, where he majored in creative writing.