Too Long; Didn't Read
When I first began teaching writing while I was at Chapman, eager to launch my “new career,” I got Ursula LeGuin’s book <em>Steering the Craft</em> and was powerfully impressed by what I learned from it along with my reading as an MFA candidate, which included many non-US authors and historic literature. I set my syllabus for my first sci fi writing class and wrote Ursula, asking if she had any suggestions for how I might best incorporate her text into the class.