Karen Brennan
Professor, English
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3625 LNCO
Office Hours: m,w 2 - 3 & by appt.
Office Phone: (801) 581-7992
Email:
Degrees:
1990 Ph.D. University of Arizona
Karen Brennan is the author of five books, which include the creative genres of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. She has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for fiction, an AWP award for fiction and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her Memoir, BEING WITH RACHEL. Her work appears in anthologies from Norton, Graywolf, University of Georgia Press, Longman, and St. Martin's, among others. Since 1993, she has taught in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Utah and is permanent faculty at Warren Wilson's MFA for Writers in North Carolina.
Selected Publications:
The Real Enough World
(Book), 2005
The Garden in Which I Walk
(Book), 2004
Being With Rachel
(Book), 2002
Wild Desire
(Book), 1990
Here On Earth
(Book), 1988
Current Courses
ENGL 5520-1 Poetry Workshop
Courses I Teach
ENGL 2220 Novels And Films
ENGL 5510 Fiction Workshop
ENGL 5520 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 5530 Creative Nonfic Wkshp
ENGL 7010 Non-Fiction Workshop
Awards
1997
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts
Favorite Books:
Anything by Virginia Woolf
Favorite Movies:
Chinatown,
Apocalypse Now
Favorite Music:
Jazz
Favorite Quote:
Life is a bore,the world is my oyster no more...