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Denise Frame Harlan is currently in her fifth year of teaching at MassArt, and her fifteenth year of teaching college writing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University, where her thesis focused on the cooking-memoir writing of MFK Fisher and Robert Farrar Capon. Her essays have been featured in Ruminate and Comment magazines,Topology, and The Other Journal. Her writing has been anthologized in The Spirit of Food (Wipf & Stock 2010). In 2013, she won an honorable mention in the VanderMey Creative Nonfiction Prize. She reviews for The Englewood Review of Books and occasionally writes for craft magazines, including Interweave Spin-Off and Living Crafts, for which she served as contributing editor.

Denise also manages Stockingfoot Knits, where she handcrafts several hundred pairs of socks each year to sell at seasonal fairs. Denise enjoys crafts that can be adapted for children as well as un-crafty adults. She is an occasional guest in the handwork classroom for The Waldorf School of Moraine Farm, where she teaches hand-spinning, needle-felting and wet-felting, candle-decorating, tie-dye, and simple paper-making. Denise’s pysanky tools and calligraphy tools are always at hand.

In the MassArt Humanities program, Denise Frame Harlan teaches Thinking Making Writing and Multigenre Writing.

Industry Experience

• 2009 – 2020 – Adjunct Instructor, Gordon College, Wenham MA
• 2013 – Present – College Application Essay Coach, Lexington Prep School, Lexington MA
• 2012 – 2015 – Site Manager, Episcopal City Tutoring SAT Workshop, Hamilton MA

Publications

• 2018 – Featured Review of We’ll Fly Away by Brian Bliss in the Englewood Review of Books.
• 2017 – “Can Kickstarter Boost Your Hobby into a Business?” Article in Interweave Spin-Off Magazine
• 2015 – “They Say it Goes Fast, But I’m Not So Sure.” Essay on The Slow Living blog
• 2013 – “Smoke Rings.” Essay in Ruminate Magazine
• 2010 – “And She Took Flour: Cooking Lessons from Supper of the Lamb.” Essay in The Spirit of Food, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields
• 2015 – “Two Small Children and The Mean Old World.” Essay in the Makes You Mom blog

Awards

• 2013 – VanderMey Creative Nonfiction Award, honorable mention for “Smoke Rings”
• 2011 – Duncan Eat/Write Fellow, Writing Residency at Dairy Hollow

Connect

• deniseframeharlan.com
• Twitter: @twirlyhead