Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. Reconstruction: On the Road Toward a More Sustainable Future -- Introduction: The Possibilities for Creative Writing in America -- 1.Histories and Historiography in Creative Writing Studies -- 2.Writing as Spiritual Practice -- 3.We Serve Writing Here -- 4.Theory and Pedagogy in Introductory Writing Textbooks: Creative Writing Leads the Way -- 5.The Print Doctrine -- 6.The Convergence of Creative Writing Processes and Their Neurological Mapping -- 7.Rewriting Creative Writing -- 8.Toward an Interdisciplinary Creative Writing -- 9.Creative Writing in First-Year Writing: Let's Remember, or Re-teach, the Value of Fiction -- 10.Against Appropriation: Creative Writing in/and the Making of Knowledge -- Contributors -- Index