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Brandon R Schrand Nonfiction Writer

Brandon R Schrand

Biography Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner, a 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students selection, and a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has also has essays forthcoming in several anthologies including Borne on Air: Essays by Idaho Writers (EWU Press); Now Write!: Nonfiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin); and The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humilations of Fatherhood (Ecco/Harper Collins). He has won the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, Shenandoah’s 2008 Carter Prize, the Pushcart Prize, two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and has had Notable Essays in both the Best American Essays 2007 and 2008. A two-time grant recipient of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, he lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. 

Favorite Authors

  • Wallace Stegner, Joan Didion, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy

Relationship

  • Kelli Gardner Schrand

Family

  • Two children

Causes I Support

  • Barack Obama for President

University Affiliation

  • University of Idaho

Publishers

  • University of Nebraska Press

Contact Publishers

  • For publicity inquiries, please contact:
    Kate Salem
    U. Nebraska Press
    ksalem2@unl.edu

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