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Chris Drangle is a writer from Arkansas. Before earning an MFA in fiction at Cornell University, he worked as a car washer, a radio DJ, a legal assistant, a copywriter, and the guy who drives the caged golf cart at the driving range.

His fiction has been recognized with a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, a Jentel Arts Residency, a Pushcart Prize, and a Prose Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors. His work has appeared in magazines like One Story, the Kenyon Review, Granta, the Oxford American, and others.

Chris has taught English and creative writing for more than fifteen years. He has worked with students in high school, college, graduate school, and continuing education programs, teaching both in the classroom and through online platforms.

He is a faculty member of the English Department and MFA program at the University of Idaho, and lives in Moscow with his partner.



photo by Emma Catherine Perry