Brian Evenson
Professor of Literary Arts

 

Office Location: Room 305, 68 1/2 Brown St.
Phone: (401) 863-9408
Brian_Evenson@brown.edu

 

Fall 2012 courses
LITR 0210A S03 - Fiction Writing II
LITR 2010 S03 - Graduate Fiction

Spring 2013 course:  
LITR 1200 S01 - Writers on Writing
LITR 1230T S01 - The Origins of the Detective Story

Brian Evenson is the author of twelve books of fiction, most recently Immobility (2012) and Windeye (2012).  His other books include Last Days (which won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State, both of which were on Time Out New York's top books of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a professor in Brown University's Literary Arts Department. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, and others. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and three O. Henry Prizes.