Darrell Spencer
Professor
Stocker Professor in Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Fiction
Office: Ellis 319
Office Phone: 593-2803
Email: spenced1@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Utah
Publications
One Miles Past Dangeros Curve (a novel)
Bring Your Legs with You (Winner of Drue Heinz Literature Prize)
Caution: Men in Trees (Winner of the Fannery O’Connor Award in Short Ficion)
Our Secret’s Out
A Woman Packing a Pistol
Curriculum Vitae
“Five Times for Disorderly Conduct” in High Plains Literary Review
So You Got Next to the Hammer novella in Quarterly West
“Pronto Bucks” in Indiana Review
“Suppose Some Fool Put His Hand Through the Floor of Heaven” in Epoch
“It’s a Lot Scarier if You Take Jesus Out” in Shenandoah
“Blood Work” in Antioch Review
“Please To Forgive Sloppiness” in High Plains Literary Review
“Late Night TV” in High Plains Literary Review
“The 12-Inch Dog” in Epoch
“Caution: Men in Trees” in Gettysburg Review
“Neon Nite” in Salt Lake City Magazine
“The American Heart” in High Plains Literary Review
“My Home State of Nevada” in Quarterly West
“Lake Stink” in Epoch
“Nothing Sad Once You Look at It” in High Plains Literary Review
“Hops” in The Quarterly
“Loose in the Mail” in Gettysburg Review
“Let Me Tell You What Ward DiPino Tells Me at Work” in Epoch
“The Glue That Binds Us” in Cimarron Review
“Union Business” in Prairie Schooner
“Song and Dance” in High Plains Literary Review
“Halloween” in Epoch.
“Pots of Impatiens” in The Quarterly
“Doing the Bats” in Epoch
“Rooster Loves” in Permafrost
Courses
English 323: American Literature: 1918-Present
English 361: Creative Writing: Fiction
English 393: Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
English 481: Form and Theory: Fiction
English 486: Advanced Workshop: Fiction
nglish 690s: Creative Writing Seminar: Fiction
English 735:
English 765: Form and Theory of Fiction