Mary Sue Koeppel
Professor of English
Florida Community College at Jacksonville, South Campus
111901 Beach Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32246
904-646-2370
Current Courses
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Enc 1101 - English Composition I |
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Enc 1102 - English Composition II |
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CRW 2000 - Imaginative Writing (Creative Writing) |
Teaching Interests
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Writing Process |
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College Writing by Students |
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Creative Writing - poetry, short stories, memoirs |
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Writers from this section of the country |
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Short workshops for creative writers |
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Women of Vision Program with the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens |
Useful Links for Writing Students
| FCCJ's website home page (Artimus) |
| FCCJ's Library website www.fccj.edu/library (Look up research materials, access research information on the web, etc.) |
| Learn about writers from this part of Florida www.fccj.edu/library/nfwriters/nfwfwriter |
| Kalliope's website (Journal published by FCCJ, and activities of the Kalliope Collective) |
| www.dianahacker.com/bedhandbook (Check out grammar rules, do grammar exercises, find MLA formats for Sources Cited pages and internal documentation.) |
Books by Mary Sue Koeppel
| Writing Strategies - Plus Collaboration. Revised Third Edition. Boston: Pearson Publishing, 2000. |
| In the Library of Silences, Poems of Loss. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Rhiannon Press, 2001. |
| Write Your Life, The Memory Catcher. Jacksonville: Oldfield Press, 1997. |
| Your Handy House Book, Jacksonville: Centurian Press, 1988. (Co-author, Robert B. Gentry) |
Background
Mary Sue Koeppel is a full time faculty member of the communications department of FCCJ and the editor of Kalliope, a national literary journal. Her awards include the first Red Schoolhouse Award for Teaching Excellence given annually to one community college instructor in the state of Florida, the award for teaching excellence from FCCJ, and the 2003 FCCJ Board of Trustees Award for Community Service.
Articles, book reviews, poetry and short stories by Mary Sue Koeppel have appeared in over fifty journals, magazines, and newspapers, including the Florida Times Union, The Connecticut Review, Iris, The Christian Science Monitor, Chattahoochie Review, Belles Lettres, Chiron Review, Welks Walk Review, Clockwatch Review, the Flint Hills Review and Small Press Review. Koeppel interviews writers for the half hour Worth Quoting and Writer-to-Writer TV programs.
Anthologies with her work include Life on the Line (Negative Capability Press); Always the Beautiful Answer, a Prose Poetry Primer (Kings Estate Press); Anthology of New England Writers 1997; Earth Tones: Creative Perspectives on Ecological Issues (Vergin Press); Stranger at My Table (Women's Press, LTD, England); The Red Flower (Crossing Press); Women and Death - 108 American Poets (Ground Torpedo Press); New Century North American Poets (2002 River King Press). Her poetry appears on canopicjar.com and her interviews on several websites.
Sample of Workshops by Koeppel for Students
| N.I.C.E. Nassau County's FCCJ writers' special activities |
| Weekend workshops for creative writers |
| Kalliope Writers Collective - critiques of poetry and short fiction |
| Elder Hostel Courses - memoir writing, creative writing |
| Retirement Communities - memoir writing |
| Writing Groups: How Do I Get Published? How Do I Create a Book of My Poems or Stories? How Do We Critique Work? Write a Good Poem |
| Writers' Festivals Presenter |