Steven Dunn is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: Potted Meat(2016) and water & power (2018), and the chapbook Our Migrations (Business Bear Press, 2018 & 2019) Potted Meat was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists, and adapted to a short film by Foothills Productions. The Usual Route has played at L.A. International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and others. He was born and raised in West Virginia.
Mentor Statement
My theory of mentorship is rooted in a 2003 essay by Gail M. McGuire and Jo Reger called Feminist Co-Mentoring: A Model for Academic Professional Development.
In this essay, McGuire and Reger critique the traditional model of mentoring in academia and offer an alternative model: co-mentoring, grounded in feminist principles. Their conception of co-mentoring challenges masculinist values of hierarchy, competition, and objectivity by emphasizing the importance of cooperative, non-hierarchical relationships for learning and development. Feminist co-mentoring seeks to dispel the view of the disembodied intellectual by attending to academics' familial, personal, and emotional needs. While co-mentoring is valuable for all academics, they argue that underrepresented groups can especially benefit from this type of relationship.
Feminist Co-Mentoring also informs my packet and thesis revisions, meaning that I edit/revise your work based on the needs of your work, not my own reading or stylistic preferences. My goal is to assist you in making your work be the best version of itself, from micro to macro edits.
