Brandon Haffner
Associate Professor of Creative Writing

Biography: 

Brandon Haffner earned his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his BA from Indiana University in Bloomington. His fiction appears or is forthcoming in the New Orleans Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, New Flash Fiction Review, The Carolina Quarterly, J Journal, and elsewhere. He writes occasionally for The Richmonder and reads fiction for Variant Lit.

He has received artist-in-residence fellowships from the Hambidge Center (2025), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2024), VCCA France (2024), and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2023). He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (2025), International Literary Seminars in Nairobi, Kenya (2023), and Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia (2018). 

His recent research interests include narratology and creative writing pedagogy. He is currently working on a novel. 

From 2019 to 2022, he chaired the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. 

Author website: https://thebrandonhaff.com/

Education:

MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015

BA, Indiana University, 2009

Courses:

ENGL 476 -- Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL / ART 375 -- Creating Graphic Narratives

ENGL 352 -- Digital Narrative and Publishing

ENGL 223 -- Intro to Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 222 -- Intro to Poetry Writing

ENGL 221 -- Intro to Fiction Writing

ENGL 215 -- Digital Technologies in Literature

ENGL 210 -- Speculative Fiction

ENGL 210 -- Hybrid Literature 

ENGL 210 -- Contemporary Fiction

ENGL 165 -- Writing and Rhetoric 

CTZN 110 -- Identity and Narrative on Social Media

CTZN 110 -- Writing the World