Charm School: Five Women of the Odyssey

Randall J. VanderMey, a graduate of Calvin College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Iowa, received an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop (1978), mentored by Ian McEwan and the late Frank Conroy. He is currently Professor of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author and producer of Kenosis (2004), a 24-poem cycle set to music by composer Steve Butler, and author of God Talk: Triteness and Truth in Christian Clichés (InterVarsity, 1993), a collection of 43 essays. Besides publishing numerous short stories, essays, and poems, he is the lead author of Houghton Mifflin’s nationally popular college composition textbooks The College Writer, 2nd ed. (2006) and The College Writer’s Handbook (2007).VanderMey, Randall J. is the author of 'Charm School: Five Women of the Odyssey', published 2006 under ISBN 9780978847524 and ISBN 0978847520.