Morningside prof, former student co-publish story
Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- A story co-authored by a Morningside College professor and a former student has been published in the spring issue of the North American Review, a literary magazine that has featured writers such as Walt Whitman, Henry James and Andrew Carnegie.
SIOUX CITY -- A story co-authored by a Morningside College professor and a former student has been published in the spring issue of the North American Review, a literary magazine that has featured writers such as Walt Whitman, Henry James and Andrew Carnegie.
"Jill's Story" is about a young woman trying to figure out what to make of her sister's death and a family trying to fill the gap that's been left among them. It was originally written by Jill Wiese, a 2002 graduate of Morningside College, and then it was re-worked in later years by English professor Steve Coyne.
Wiese worked on the story while a student in one of Coyne's writing classes. She said she got the idea to write about a girl who has a car crash in the same place her sister had been killed in a wreck because she and her cousin did have car crashes in the same location. However, no one died in the real-life car crashes.
Toward the end of the semester, Coyne asked Wiese if he could hang onto the story she had written so he could work on it himself sometime in the future. She said sure, but was still surprised when he called and told her their story had been accepted for publication by the nation's oldest literary magazine.
"It's very exciting," Wiese said. "I never thought that I would have a short story published. At first I didn't know what to expect; I didn't know how he had used the story. Then when I read it, it was my story but so much better. So that was really exciting."
After graduation, Wiese moved to Dallas to attend Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She is currently an assistant manager of an arts and crafts store. Coyne has been an English professor at Morningside College since 1988.
"Jill's Story" may be read on the Morningside College Web site at www.morningside.edu/morningside/news/CoyneWiese_JillsStory.htm.
SIOUX CITY -- A story co-authored by a Morningside College professor and a former student has been published in the spring issue of the North American Review, a literary magazine that has featured writers such as Walt Whitman, Henry James and Andrew Carnegie.
"Jill's Story" is about a young woman trying to figure out what to make of her sister's death and a family trying to fill the gap that's been left among them. It was originally written by Jill Wiese, a 2002 graduate of Morningside College, and then it was re-worked in later years by English professor Steve Coyne.
Wiese worked on the story while a student in one of Coyne's writing classes. She said she got the idea to write about a girl who has a car crash in the same place her sister had been killed in a wreck because she and her cousin did have car crashes in the same location. However, no one died in the real-life car crashes.
Toward the end of the semester, Coyne asked Wiese if he could hang onto the story she had written so he could work on it himself sometime in the future. She said sure, but was still surprised when he called and told her their story had been accepted for publication by the nation's oldest literary magazine.
"It's very exciting," Wiese said. "I never thought that I would have a short story published. At first I didn't know what to expect; I didn't know how he had used the story. Then when I read it, it was my story but so much better. So that was really exciting."
After graduation, Wiese moved to Dallas to attend Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She is currently an assistant manager of an arts and crafts store. Coyne has been an English professor at Morningside College since 1988.
"Jill's Story" may be read on the Morningside College Web site at www.morningside.edu/morningside/news/CoyneWiese_JillsStory.htm.
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