William J. Cobb
Professor
137A Burrowes BuildingUniversity Park , PA 16802
Email:
wjcobb@gmail.com
Office Phone:
(814) 865-6420
Education
- PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. The University of Houston. 1988-93.
- Master of Arts in English. The University of Texas at Austin. 1982-84.
- Bachelor of Arts in English. Texas State University at San Marcos. 1975-80.
Professional Bio
William J. Cobb is a novelist, essayist, and short fiction writer whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, The Antioch Review, and many others. He's the author of two novels - The Fire Eaters (W.W. Norton 1994) and Goodnight, Texas (Unbridled Books 2006) - and a book of stories, The White Tattoo (Ohio State UP 2002). He reviews books for the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times, and directs the MFA program at Penn State. He lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Areas of Specialization
- Creative Writing
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Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
