Maureen Dunphy

Maureen Dunphy's book GREAT LAKES ISLAND ESCAPES: FERRIES AND BRIDGES TO ADVENTURE was published by Wayne State University Press in May of 2016.

Dunphy currently teaches two goal-based writing workshops—“Getting There from Here” and “Going Farther”—for Springfed Arts and, through Dunphy Consulting Services, individually coaches writers and provides editing services for both individuals and institutions.

Dunphy has taught fiction workshop courses at Oakland University and the University of Windsor and creative writing courses at Oakland Community College—Orchard Ridge. She has taught writing workshops at Far Field Writer’s Retreat, Clockhouse Writer’s Conference and in the Irish Hills and on Pelee Island. Her first career, spanning 20 years, was as an instructional designer and video-writer, primarily as consultant to automotive companies.

She has published poetry in Beyond the Lines: Writing What You Couldn’t Say; fiction in Bear River Review; and non-fiction in Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan.

Dunphy earned her MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, did post-graduate work in English at Wayne State University in Detroit, and earned a B.A. in English from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

On the mainland, Maureen lives in the “Mitten State,” but she makes frequent escapes to Great Lakes islands, including to her cottage on Ontario’s Pelee Island in the western basin of Lake Erie.