the shadow waters
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Director of Creative Writing, Pepperdine University |
| Location | Westlake Village, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Since August 2007 I have served as the Director of Creative Writing at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. I am also a writer of short fiction, novels, poetry, and memoir. My stories and poetry have been published widely, with work included in The Atlantic Monthly, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, The Literary Review, Poet Lore, Rosebud Magazine, and War, Literature & the Arts, among others. My poetry collection, The Man I Was Supposed to Be, was published by Loom Press in March 2008. My awards include the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship to Stanford University, an NEA Literature Fellowship, and both the Weldon Kees and Tennessee Williams Scholarships. |
| Interests | reading, writing, novel, poetry, fiction, Tolstoy, Raymond Carver, Chekhov, Tobias Wolff, Ted Kooser, teaching, Eavan Boland, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, short story, Oregon, Pepperdine University, pedagogy, Stanford University, University of Nebraska, Sewanee Writers' Conference, books, literature, nonfiction, memoir, historical novel, narrative poetry, William Stafford, John Haines |