This textbook takes a new approach to teaching creative writing that centers the concerns of
multicultural students. It focuses on the experiences of those who wish to write through their
diverse identities including ethnic cultural racial national regional and international
identity as well as gender identity sexual preference class position and disability.
Combining the study of culturally diverse literature with the process of writing students are
encouraged to engage with various texts and to use them to inspire their own work. Organized
around a series of writing prompts and discussions of literary readings that address identity
place perception family community encounters inheritance and resistance this book offers
both writers and teachers a way to engage with the practice of writing from a multicultural
perspective.
