Graduate Studies Events
Doug Dorst (Friday seminar guest speaker)
MFA Writers' Series
Friday, December 12, 3:30 pm
Writers' Studio, San Francisco Campus
195 De Haro at 15th Street
Contact: Teresa Walsh, program manager, 415.703.9237 or email
Note: This event is followed by the MFA Writing Program's end-of-term party.
For additional information, including a comprehensive list of speakers, see the MFA in Writing Program's Writers' Series.
Dorst's first novel, Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead Books, 2008) was reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Read the review (free-of-charge registration required to access).
Forthcoming in 2009 is Dorst's first short-story collection, The Surf Guru (also from Riverhead Books). His stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, The Atlantic Unbound, The Sun, ZYZZYVA, and other journals. His first play, Monster in the Dark, a collaboration with foolsFURY Theater Company, had runs in San Francisco and Berkeley earlier in 2008. The San Francisco Examiner praised Monster as "masterful… fascinating throughout," and SF Weekly cited the play in naming foolsFURY San Francisco's Best Theater Company as part of its annual "Best of the Bay" edition.
Dorst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener / Copernicus Society, and the MacDowell Colony.
A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Doug earned a bachelor of arts from Stanford and a Juris docotorate from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall. He also has taught writing at Stanford, as well as for CCA's MFA Writing Program.
He currently lives in Austin, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at St. Edward's University and serves on the board of directors of Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit writing center for children.