Part-time Faculty
clspain@msn.com
603 - 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.
Darwin sociobiology evolutionary psychology fiction writing film
Professor Chris Spain received the Gallatin Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013-2014.
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