title: Against A White Sky: A Memoir Of Closets And Classrooms
author: Laurie Stapleton
description: For ten years, Laurie Stapleton taught English, humanities, composition and writing in traditional and alternative high schools, and at California State University, Monterey Bay. She completed Against a White Sky during an MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard College (2002). She is currently in a Ph.D. (Education) program at Stanford University, with research interests in small schools, teacher and English/literacy education, language/dialect variances, and LGBT cultural and curricular inclusion in public schools.
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