haffnerbs@longwood.edu | |
Phone | (434) 395-2159 |
Department | English and Modern Languages |
Office | Grainger 106 |
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 reads fiction for Variant Lit.
Recently awarded artist residencies include VCCA-France at Moulin à Nef (2024), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2024), and VCCA at Mt. San Angelo (2023). He is the recipient of fellowships from Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia (2018) and International Literary Seminars in Nairobi and Lamu, Kenya (2023).
His recent research interests include narratology and creative writing pedagogy. He is currently at work on a novel.
From 2019 to 2022, he chaired the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
Learn more: https://thebrandonhaff.com/
Education:
MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015
BA, Indiana University, 2009
Courses:
ENGL 476 -- Advanced Fiction Writing
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 165 -- Writing and Rhetoric
CTZN 110 -- Identity and Narrative on Social Media
CTZN 110 -- Writing the World