480 Langsam Library
513-556-6367
smbr@ucmail.uc.edu

Education

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Florida
ABD., English & Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati

Background

Currently assistant director of UC's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, Bryan will complete his PhD in English and Comparative Literature in Spring 2012. His dissertation, The Countrymen, is a collection of stories written under the direction of Michael Griffith. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida in May 2004. His research and teaching interests include American modern and postmodern literature, fiction writing, poetry, the short story, the contemporary novel, U.S. ethnic literatures, and literary magazine production. Formerly the associate editor of The Cincinnati Review, his stories appear or are forthcoming in Fence, The Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Witness, Unsaid, and elsewhere.