photograph by Patrick Hinely

Bill Oliver
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
and Director of VMI's Writing Center

Department of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
DuPont Hall 201A
(540) 458-8278
email: oliverb@wlu.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia
M.A., English, University of Kansas
B.A., English and History, Rockhurst College

Writing Interests

fiction

Teaching

English 101: Expository Writing
English 105: Composition and Literature
English 204: Creative Writing
English 226: American Literature: Romantic to Modern
English 227: American Literature: WWII to Present
English 366: Contemporary American Short Story
English 368: Modern American Novel
English 369: American Novel, WWII to Present

Books

Women & Children First: Stories. Mid-List P, 1998.

Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable
Writers. U of Illinois P, 1998.

Selected Publications

Short stories in The Virginia Quarterly Review,
Carolina Quarterly, Indiana Review, Florida
Review, New Letters, Laurel Review, Descant,
and others.

Essays and interviews in Contemporary Literature,
Southern Literary Journal, New England Review,
The Literary Review, Flannery O'Connor Bulletin,
Crazyhorse, New Letters, and others.

Work in Progress

Excursions (stories)
Necessary Evils (novel)


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