Chris Drangle is a writer and teacher from Arkansas. Prior to joining the English Department at University of Idaho, he taught English courses and creative writing workshops as a lecturer at Cornell University and a Jones Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, the Kenyon Review, Granta, One Story, and many other places.

• NEA Fellowship in Prose, National Endowment for the Arts, 2022
• Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY, 2017
• Pushcart Prize, XLI edition, Pushcart Press, 2017
• Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2016
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University, 2015
• David L. Pickett Creative Writing Fellowship, Cornell University, 2013
• Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction, Cornell University, 2012

• Short fiction and novels
• Speculative fiction
• Memoir and literary journalism
• Iterative narrative structure

• Chris's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, including Granta, One Story, the Kenyon Review, the Oxford American, Literary Hub, the Adroit Journal, Epoch, the Idaho Review, and others.

"A Typology of Titles" (craft essay), Literary Hub, 2021

"Solastalgia Tour: A Review of Mario Alejandro Ariza's Disposable City" (book review), 2021

"Sinner Wolf" (short fiction), The Adroit Journal, 2019

"Let's Make Up Jack" (short fiction), Kenyon Review Online, 2017

"A Local's Guide to Dating in Slocomb County" (short fiction), Oxford American, 2015