Recent books include The Coast Starlight (poems) a novel, Honoring Juanita, and Nine By Three, a book of short stories written with Beverly Conner and Ann Putnam. ...Grew up in the High Sierra of California in a town of 200. Attended Sierra College and then earned degrees in English from the University of California, Davis, including a Ph.D. in English. Taught at Davis and at Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Have been teaching at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, for over two decades. Taught at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1994 as a Senior Fulbright Fellow. Am a member of the PEN/American Center, the National Book Critics Circle, and other organizations. Author of poetry, fiction, criticism, references works, textbooks. Editor of reference works and books of essays. Comfortable in cities and the wilderness. Extremely eclectic tastes in reading and cinema. Like to write in a wide variety of genres. I teach creative writing, literature, and rhetoric. Teach courses on the Harlem Renaissance and Detective Fiction, among others. I have a blog called Poet's Musings and a Youtube channel called langstonify.
