UIUC Creative Writing

John Griswold has taught undergraduate creative writing (prose), literature, and rhetoric at UIUC since 2000. Before that, he was a corporate and freelance writer and editor, manager of an ad agency, city bus driver, Army deep-sea diver, and interpretive ranger at a state park.

John's novel, A Democracy of Ghosts, was published in 2009 by Wordcraft of Oregon. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in War, Literature and the Arts; Brevity; Perigee; Monkey Bicycle; Juked; Ninth Letter; and Natural Bridge, which nominated him for the 2001 Pushcart Prize. The Stork, a story chapbook, is available from Featherproof Books . He's currently at work on a nonfiction book to be released in 2010 by The History Press.

As Oronte Churm, John is also a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed, a columnist for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and a contributing editor for Adjunct Advocate, with pieces in Mountain Man Dance Moves (McSweeney's Books) and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3 (WW Norton).

Read more at www.OronteChurm.com