William J. Cobb
Emeritus Professor of English
(814) 933-7673
218 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
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 five books of fiction: three novels - The Fire Eaters (1994), Goodnight, Texas (2006), and The Bird Saviors (2012) - and two books of stories, The White Tattoo (2002) and The Lousy Adult (2013). He has reviewed books for the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times, and lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Areas of Specialization
Creative Writing
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction