Vermont College of Fine Arts

CLINT McCOWN has published three novels (The Member-Guest, Doubleday; War Memorials, Graywolf Press and Houghton Mifflin; and The Weatherman, Graywolf Press) and three volumes of poems (Sidetracks, Jackpine Press; Wind Over Water, Northwoods Press; and Dead Languages, Anhinga Press). He has recently completed a fourth book of fiction, an historical novel titled Haints. His books have received the S. Mariella Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Germaine Bree Book Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, and a Distinction in Literature citation from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has twice won the American Fiction Prize and has received three nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. As a journalist, he received the Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of organized crime and political corruption. He has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros., as a creative consultant for HBO television, and as an actor for the National Shakespeare Company. Three of his plays have been produced, and screen adaptations of two of his novels are currently in development with River One Films. He has edited several national literary magazines, including the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he founded in 1984 and ran for twenty years. His work has appeared in such places as Sewanee Review, North American Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, Nimrod, Arts & Letters, Puerto Del Sol, Hotel Amerika, Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Ascent, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sudden Fiction, Golf Digest, America, Denver Quarterly, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Hawaii Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth Univ.