Cris Beam is a professor at Columbia University, where she teaches creative writing classes in both the undergraduate and graduate MFA programs. She also teaches creative writing at New York University, The New School and Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility.
Cris provides PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIONS and EDITING services, as well as private writing and group lessons.
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Cris also regularly lectures at universities and conferences on topics related to nonfiction writing, memoir, and transgender issues. If you’re interested in having Cris speak, click on the link above.
SAMPLE INVITED LECTURES:
Transgender Street Kids and the U.S. Response. Keynote Address at the Ciclo Rosa Conference in Bogotá, Colombia
Blended Forms: Successfully Merging Journalism and Memoir. Presented to MFA students at CalArts, Los Angeles
Writing the Feminist and Transgender perspective. Presented at Bowling Green State University
Writing Your Childhood. Presented at True Colors, Queer Youth Conference
Writing For Publication: A Full-Day Seminar. Offered to post-graduate students at Bank Street College
Selling Stories Without Selling Out: A Two-part Series on Making an Ethical Living as a Writer. Developed for both graduate and undergraduate students in Columbia University’s Creative Writing Programs
Writing Transgender Lives. Presented at Princeton University
Writing the Memoir Book. Presented in the course, “Memoir Writing,” 92nd Street Y
Get More Out of Freelancing. Presented at the Newswomen’s Club of New York
Contemporary Issues and Opportunities Facing Transgender Youth. Presented at Rutgers University
Hacks and Flacks: The tricky relationship between publicists and reporters. Presented at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association conference