Creative Writing Program
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-6452
Fax: 307-766-3189
Email: cw@uwyo.edu
Professor for English and the Creative Writing Program
M.F.A., University of Michigan
B.A., Williams College
Hoyt Hall 342
Publications
Scribe (Graywolf Press, 2018), published as Les Soeurs de Blackwater (Editions Zulma/France, 2020, translation David Fauquemberg); Boleto (Graywolf Press, 2012); Ghosts of Wyoming (Graywolf Press, 2010); Snow, Ashes(Graywolf Press, 2007); Keeneland (Simon & Schuster, 2000); Graveyard of the Atlantic (Graywolf Press, 2000); Hardware River(Poseidon Press, 1991); Madonna on Her Back (Stuart Wright, 1986).
Awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, inclusion in Best American Short Stories, the High Plains Book Award for Fiction, the Devil's Kitchen Award in Prose, a Nelson Algren Award, a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan, and the John P. Ellbogen Award for Meritorious Classroom Teaching.
Interests & Hobbies
Fishing, tennis, hiking, snowshoeing, multi-media collaborations, artist’s books, oral history
Creative Writing Program
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-6452
Fax: 307-766-3189
Email: cw@uwyo.edu