Moeller’s Own
WRITERIN-RESIDENCE
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ow in its second year, Moeller’s writer-in-residence promotes and exemplifies the craft and ideals of professional writing, the creative arts, and the written word. Through innovative workshops, demonstrations, special programs, and working alongside other Moeller teachers and professional guests, the writerin-residence—alongside students—explores composition ranging from real-world occupational and business writing to personal expression via nonfiction, song, journaling, film, theatre, and literary and genre fiction. The writer-in-residence models professional artistry via a national and international career and reputation by publishing original work in books, magazines, and anthologies and fosters an environment throughout the Moeller community of creativity, self-expression, and better command and enjoyment of the language arts.
I couldn’t have done it without all of the guidance of the writers who helped me along the way. Geoffrey Girard writes nonfiction, thrillers, historicals, and speculative
fiction and is a New York Times bestselling author who has published more than twenty books with traditional publishers. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Polish, and Turkish, and several have been optioned for film. Mr. Girard has also taught at Moeller for nineteen years, and was the department chair of English for ten years before being named Moeller’s first writer-in-residence. He currently teaches honors freshman English and the creative writing elective, and has also taught writing at Miami University, Seton Hill University, and Mount St. Joseph University, where he was an adjunct professor teaching courses in both writing and short fiction. At Moeller, he’s also taught journalism, horror and Gothic fiction, AP English Literature and Composition, and philosophy in literature. He’s been a guest speaker or led writing workshops at many festivals and conferences, including the Marianne D. McComb Biennial Conference on Creative Writing (Miami University), the Texas Library Association, the Nashville Book Festival, Decatur Book Festival, Thrillerfest, DragonCon, GenCon, Books by the Banks, Context, Scarefest, Conglomeration, Hypericon, Showmecon, Chattacon, SCBWI, the SOKY Book Festival, NKY YA Festival, Buckeye Book Festival, PennWriters, Marcon, and the Ohioana Festival.
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“When I first started my writing career, other authors further along the path were always there to help guide me,” he said. “[I] could not have done this without them. It’s been a privilege to try and do the same for others.”