Jo-Anne Kerr is professor emerita of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she taught English and English education methods courses and supervised student teachers. Jo-Anne was director of IUP’s English Education Program for 10 years and received the Outstanding English Education Adviser Award several years. She also served as codirector of the Southcentral Pennsylvania Writing Project from 2005-2010. She is coeditor and cowriter of Thinking Like a Teacher.Ann N. Amicucci is assistant professor of English and director of First-Year Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she teaches first-year rhetoric and research writing courses, a writing pedagogy course for future K-12 English teachers, and undergraduate rhetoric seminars on social media, letters, and public intellectualism. Her work has appeared in Computers & Composition and The CEA Forum.

“Stories from First-Year Composition should be on all FYC teachers’ shelves, whether new to the profession or experienced.”—Bryna Siegel Finer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania  “This particular collection is inspiring and necessary in helping us maintain and expand writing instruction in our colleges and universities.”—Jane Danielewicz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Jo-Anne Kerr is professor emerita of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she taught English and English education methods courses and supervised student teachers. Jo-Anne was director of IUP’s English Education Program for 10 years and received the Outstanding English Education Adviser Award several years. She also served as codirector of the Southcentral Pennsylvania Writing Project from 2005-2010. She is coeditor and cowriter of Thinking Like a Teacher.Ann N. Amicucci is assistant professor of English and director of First-Year Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she teaches first-year rhetoric and research writing courses, a writing pedagogy course for future K-12 English teachers, and undergraduate rhetoric seminars on social media, letters, and public intellectualism. Her work has appeared in Computers & Composition and The CEA Forum.

“Stories from First-Year Composition should be on all FYC teachers’ shelves, whether new to the profession or experienced.”—Bryna Siegel Finer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania  “This particular collection is inspiring and necessary in helping us maintain and expand writing instruction in our colleges and universities.”—Jane Danielewicz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill