Chris Spain

Part-time Faculty
clspain@msn.com
429 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Thursday 4:00-6:00

B.S., Bioagriculture, Colorado State University, 1980
M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Columbia University, 1986

Chris Spain received his undergraduate degree in bio-agriculture and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Stanford University's Creative Writing Program from 1987 to 1988. He is the author of Praying for Rain (Capra Press, 1990), a collection of short stories, and his work has been published in Antioch Review, The Best of StoryQuarterly, Blast 5 Drama, The Henfield Prize Stories, Open City, Story magazine, Zoetrope, and 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. Spain's pieces have also been exhibited at the Sandra Gering Gallery and performed in Symphony Space's Selected Shorts at The Getty. A past member of the Writers Guild of America, he is the recipient of a CINE Golden Eagle Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best of the West award. His teaching interests are in creative writing and film.