Barry Kitterman grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley, and
received an AB (English) from the University of California at Berkeley.
After two years in the Peace Corps (Belize)in the mid-seventies, he
completed the MFA program at the University of Montana in 1981. He has
taught writing and literature at IU East, Miami University of Ohio, and
at two universities in the People's Republic of China, Nankai and
Qingdao. In 1989-90 he was Hudson Walker fellow at the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown, MA. Since 1994, he has taught at Austin Peay
State University in Clarksville, TN, where he currently coordinates the
creative writing program and the visiting writers series. He has
published short fiction and nonfiction in The Carolina Quarterly, The
Chariton Review, Turnstile, Flyway and elsewhere. He is the fiction
editor for Zone 3 Magazine (APSU) and is an associate editor of The
Green Hills Literary Lantern (Truman State University). In 2001, he
received an individual artist's grant from the Tennessee Arts
Commission. His novel The Baker's Boy was published in May 2008. He lives with his wife, Jill Eichhorn, and their two
children, Teddy and Hannah, in Clarksville, Tennessee. |  |
