Kara Mae Brown

Program Coordinator of the College of Creative Studies' Writing and Literature major
karamaebrown@writing.ucsb.edu

Office Hours: 

Please email for appointment

Office Location: 

CCS Building, Room 139

Specialization: 

Kara Mae Brown is an Associate Teaching Professor in both the Writing Program and the College of Creative Studies' Writing & Literature major, of which she is also the Program Coordinator. In the Writing Program, she teaches WRIT 105 C: Writing Creative Nonfiction, WRIT 105 SW: Science Writing for the Public, and WRIT 107 WC: Writing Web Content. In CCS, she teaches numerous course, including W&L CS 10: Introduction to Creative Writing and W&L CS 149: Writing in Nature: Exploring Santa Barbara's Coast, Valleys, and Sea.

Bio: 

In addition to teaching, Professor Brown is a creative writer and scholar of the teaching of writing. Her essays, fiction, and poems have appeared in literary journals such as Lit Angels, About Place Journal, Crack the Spine, Hawaii Review, and Plainsongs. Her scholarship has most recently focused on teaching writing at the intersection of science and creative writing.