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Associate Professor
300 Old Mill
656-4162
greg.bottoms@uvm.edu

Courses taught:  Expository Writing
                                Advanced Non-fiction
                               The Narrative Essay

Education: 

1998: M.F.A., Creative Writing- Fiction, University of Virginia. 

1996:  M.A., American Literature, Old Dominion University. 

1993:  B.A., English/Journalism, Old Dominion University.

Selected Publications

Books:

Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness (University of Chicago), 2000.

Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories from the New South (Shoemaker and Hoard), 2001.

The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art (University of Chicago), 2007.

Magazines and Journals:

Esquire, The Oxford American (forthcoming), Creative Nonfiction, Witness (forthcoming), Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Nerve, Poets & Writers, Prism International, Alaska Quarterly Review, Boldtype, BookForum, Salon, Feed, the Beacon Best of 1999, Mississippi Review, the Utne reader, London Daily Telegraph Sunday Review, Tameme:  Nueva Literatura de NorteAmerica; Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1999 and 2002.  My work has also been broadcast on National Public Radio, BBC World Radio, and National Radio of New Zealand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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