Assistant Professor
Kurt Caswell is a writer and an assistant professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College here at Texas Tech. He was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in the Cascade Range in Oregon. He has lived in Idaho off and on since 1987. Before coming to Texas Tech, he worked as a teacher in Hokkaido, Japan, on the Navajo Reservation, and at schools in Arizona, California, and Wyoming. He holds an MA in English from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and an MFA in literature and creative writing from Bennington College, where he was recipient of the Lucy Grealy Memorial Scholarship. He was a 2001 fellow at Fishtrap writers’ conference, and a 2007 fellow at the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in Isotope, Janus Head, Matter, Ninth Letter, Northern Lights, Orion, Potomac Review, Unbound Press, and West Wind Review, among other publications.
Caswell's first book, a memoir/travelogue about his year teaching and living on the Navajo Reservation in northwestern New Mexico, has been accepted for publication by Trinity University Press. He is the lead editor of a book of nature essays, To Everything on Earth, under consideration at Texas Tech University Press.
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