DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Biography

Brian Bouldrey, is the author, most recently, of Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). He has written three nonfiction books; Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, September 2007), Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books), and The Autobiography Box (Chronicle Books); three novels, The Genius of Desire (Ballantine), Love, the Magician (Harrington Park), and The Boom Economy (University of Wisconsin Press), and he is the editor of several anthologies. He is recipient of Fellowships from Yaddo and Eastern Frontier Society, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Western Regional Magazine Award.  He is the North American Editor of the "Open Door" literacy series for GemmaMedia. Teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and literature.

Specializations

Creative Writing

Books

Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)

The Peasants and the Mariners (GemmaMedia, 2013)

The Sorrow of the Elves (GemmaMedia, 2010)

Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)

The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)

Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books, 2001)