Dr. Clipper's concentrations include the writing of fiction and poetry, and literature, particularly Russian, English, and American. She has published two novels, The Bride Wore Red and Fifty-Fifty, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded fellowships for her writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Most recently she spent a semester teaching creative writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India on a Fulbright-Nehru fellowship. She directs Rider's annual high school writing contest. As fiction editor of The Kelsey Review, she has provided Rider students with opportunities for off-campus publication. She teaches a variety of courses and believes in empowering her students, emphasizing process in the teaching of writing, a workshop method for creative writing, and discussion in the teaching of literature.

Current Teaching

• ENG 206 Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENG 303 Creative Writing Poetry
• ENG 304 Creative Writing Fiction 
• ENG 400 Advanced Creative Writing 
• ENG 490 Independent Research and Study (particularly novel writing) 
• ENG 315 Topics in Specialized Writing 
• CMP 120 Expository Writing, secition for English majors, and 203 Literature and Composition 

Scholarship

• Fiction (novels, short stories) and Poetry

Recent Publications

• "Heat," poem written in collaboration with Harry Naar in NJ State Museum Visions and Voices catalogue: poetry & art show, May, 2005 
• Fifty-Fifty, a novel in many voices (NJ: Silicon Press, 2003) 
• The Bride Wore Red, tales of a cross-cultural family (NY: Picador, 1997 (paperback) and Bridge Works, 1996) 
• "Three Sisters," Other Voices literary magazine, Chicago, Fall, 2000 
• "Fifty Fifty," Screaming Monkeys anthology, 2000 
• "The Housewarming," Meridian Writers' Collective anthology, Fall, 2000

Current Projects

• Dry Land Sailors, novel/memoir
• "Eddie McQueen," "The Other Kind," and "27 Forever," short stories in progress 
• The Music of the Spheres, novel in progress 
• Cycles of poetry: Monsoon Semester, Fat Man in the Bathtub, Ancient Mythologies

Education

• BA English/Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 
• MA Comparative Literature: Russian, English, University of California at Berkeley 
• PhD Comparative Literature: Russian, English, French, University of California at Berkeley