lincolnu College

Daren Dean

  Assistant Professor of English

  Creative Writing Specialist (fiction)

  432 Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall

  deand2@lincolnu.edu

  (573) 681-5197

  https://darendean.wixsite.com/daren-dean

Education

University of North Carolina at Wilmington, MFA

Research and Teaching

Teaching areas include creative writing workshops in fiction (Intro, Intermediate, and advanced), freshmen and advanced composition. Creative work is primarily in short and novel-length fiction but also includes poetry and nonfiction.

Select Publications

Far Beyond the Pale, A Novel (Fiction Southeast Press, 2015)

I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone: Stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2019)

The Black Harvest: A Novel of the American Civil War (University of West Alabama Press, 2021)

This Vale of Tears, A Novel (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2021)

*Current Project: A novel of the 2016 Louisiana Flood 

Awards and Honors

"Bring Your Sorrow Over Here," William Richey Short Fiction Award, Runner-up, Judge George Singleton, Yemassee, 19: 1, 2011, print

"Affliction," Finalist in Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest for New Writers, 2012

"The Night Swimmer" from I'll Still be Here Long After You're Gone: Stories nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019 by Cowboy Jamboree Magazine (Originally published in StorySouth)

"Driving Dark in the Marlboro Night" nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2020 by Fiction Southeast

Courses Taught at Lincoln University

·      English 101 Composition and Rhetoric I 

·      English 102 Composition and Rhetoric II

·      English 200 Introduction to Literature

·      English 271 Introduction to Creative Writing

·      English 375 Intermediate Fiction Workshop

·      English 475 Advanced Fiction Workshop