Don Waters
Visiting Professor and Director, Fir Acres Writing Workshop
Spring 2024: Tuesdays 10:30-11:30, Thursdays 11-11:30, or by appointment.
Don Waters is the author of the memoir These Boys and Their Fathers, a novel, Sunland, and two short story collections, The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain and Desert Gothic, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction has been widely published and anthologized in the Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, and New Stories from the Southwest.
A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he’s written for the New York Times Book Review, Outside, The Believer, Tin House, and Slate, among other publications. Waters is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, the writer Robin Romm, and their daughters.
Specialty
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction WritingTeaching
Spring 2024:
ENG 400: Fiction 3