Welcome to Joe Schuster's Home Page

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Who I am, in 50 words or less

I am professor and chair in the Department of Communications and Journalism at Webster University. I hold a BS in Communications from Northwestern University (1975) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College (1991). For 2008, I received the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as an Emerson Award for teaching.

During the Fall 2009 semester, I will be on sabbatical, working on several writing projects.

I have published approximately 600 magazine and newspaper articles, reviews and essays in national, regional and local magazines and newspapers, including

• Sport
• Mary Engelbreit Home Companion Magazine
• USA Today
• St. Louis Sun
• Gameday Magazine
• Riverfront Times
• Here are a few film reviews I've written for them.
• Here's an article I wrote about the value of creative writing programs

• St. Louis Post Dispatch
• St. Louis Magazine
• The Whole Baseball Catalog

My fiction has appeared in

• 108
• Iowa Review
• The Kenyon Review
• The Marlboro Review
• Missouri Review
• New Virginia Review
• Western Humanities Review

Twice my work has been cited among the distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories, in 1982 and 1989. Another of my stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003, and an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, A Saint in the Family, received second prize in the 2004 Santa Fe Writers Project.

Here is a talk I gave on Writer's Block
Also check out my blog, Writing is Damn Hard
My "Ella Fitzgerald as a Proof for the Existence of God" Project