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Connecticut
Review Appoints
Thibault Consulting Editor
For more information, contact Professor John
Briggs, Editor of Connecticut Review at 203-837-9043.
Connecticut Review, the nationally-renowned literary
journal, has appointed author and arts advocate Andy Thibault as a
consulting editor.
The semi-annual journal has been published since 1967
by the Connecticut State University System. The journal and the work
published in it have received awards from the Council of Editors of
Learned Journals, National Public Radio, Best American
Poetry, Best American Short Story and The Pushcart Prize.
Thibault will work with professors at the four CSU
campuses - in Danbury, New Haven, Willimantic and New Britain
- to develop training programs for secondary school teachers and young
writers. He will also produce programming for radio shows featuring poets
and writers associated with Connecticut Review, and coordinate public
appearances for those poets and writers.
"We are lucky to have Andy working with us. He
exudes a formidable enthusiasm and canniness for advancing
the cause of the arts," said Professor John Briggs, editor
of Connecticut Review, a CSU Distinguished Professor, and head of the
professional writing program at Western Connecticut State University
in Danbury.
Thibault has worked with the CSU System since
2000 as chairman of the IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers
Trust. The public-private partnership has given at total of $100,000 to
young writers and presented many seminars and workshops for teachers and
young writers.
The CSU System serves more than 35,000 students, making
it the largest public university system in Connecticut. A total of 166
academic programs are offered throughout the system, and more than 5,000
degrees are awarded annually.
Thibault, 51, lives in Litchfield with his wife and
children. Heis the author of books including Law & Justice In Everyday
Life, The12-Minute MBA For Lawyers and The History of the Connecticut
State Police. He is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of
Hartford, a columnist for Law Tribune Newspapers and managing partner of
Murzin-Thibault Investigative Group LLC.
He serves on the advisory board of the Connecticut
Center for the Book and is a member of the Connecticut Library
Association.
He formerly served as vice chairman of the Litchfield
Board of Education, treasurer for the Oliver Wolcott Library and as a
board member of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
--
John Briggs, Ph.D.
CSU Distinguished Professor
Senior Editor, Connecticut Review
Professor, Professional Writing Coordinator
Department of English Language, Comparative Literature and
Writing
Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT 06810
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