This course provides an in-depth examination of both the art and craft of narrative voice in fiction writing. Through exposure to a variety of stories across a diversity of genres, periods, and styles, students learn to identify and analyze different authorial personae deployed in outstanding works of fiction and how those personae shape and inform the totality of the fictional work. Students likewise develop an applied understanding of narrative voice by composing their own sustained work of fiction during the semester, drafts of which will be submitted for consideration in workshop and revised and rewritten in light of constructive criticism from peers as well as the major themes and techniques of the course.