Mark Brazaitis
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Creative Writing
MFA 1995 Bowling Green State University

Office: 219 Colson Hall
Tel: 293-9707
Fax: 293-5380
Email: MBrazait@wvu.edu
1166199180

Specializations:

Creative writing, especially fiction

Mark Brazaitis directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing in the Department of English at West Virginia University. He is the author of An American Affair, winner of the 2004 George Garrett Prize for fiction, as well as The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and a novel, Steal My Heart. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and his stories, poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, Beloit Fiction Journal, Notre Dame Review, Atlanta Review, Shenandoah and other literary journals. Brazaitis has also published journalism in The Washington Post, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Detroit Free Press and American Medical News.