Craft lives inside the artist and it operates in the mind not in standards or techniques. Creative writers navigate thresholds in consciousness as they develop their arts practice. Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writingexplores what it is to be an artist as it traces radical feminist and culturally embedded traditions in craft. The new term craft consciousness identifies the nexus from which writers explore making processes and practitioner knowledge. Writers as with all artists create and reimagine themselves anew and it is in this perpetual state of becoming that they find ways to enlarge their sense of artistry through an exploration of forms processes and mediums beyond the written word.For writers this book initiates a reexamination of the mission of creative writing through disrupting patriarchal racist colonialist ableist and capitalist associations with dominant craft. Drawing from twentyfive interviews with living artists outside of writing and in a host of fields from conceptual art to leatherwork and dance the book shines a light on how the processes associated with craft are embodied. Craft is an internalized matrix it need not be commodified for the marketplace or codified in the standards necessitated by institutions of higher education. By redesigning writing workshops and MFAPhD programs through craft consciousness new potentials and collaborations emerge and it becomes more conceivable to imagine dynamic inclusive relationships between writers scientists and other artists.