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Porter Shreve
Professor, Department of English and Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program
| Education: | M.F.A. University of Michigan, 1998 |
| Office: | HEAV 406 |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-61651 |
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| Website: | www.portershreve.com |
| Specializations: | Creative writing, fiction |
Porter Shreve is the author of three novels, all with Houghton Mifflin. The Obituary Writer (2000) was a New York Times Notable Book and a Borders Original Voices Selection; Drives Like a Dream (2005) was a Chicago Tribune Book of the Year and a Britannica Book of the Year; and When the White House Was Ours (2008) was a Chicago Tribune Book of the Year and a Reading Group Choices Featured Selection.
Shreve is co-editor of three anthologies with Beacon Press and three textbooks with Pearson Longman. His short stories, essays, Op-Eds and reviews have appeared in many publications, including Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate fiction writing and literature at the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been at Purdue since Fall 2004, and has been Director of Creative Writing since Fall 2005.