B.A. 1979 University of Idaho
M.A. 1991 University of Arizona
M.F.A. 2004 Bennington Collge
On the PSU faculty since 2004

FIELDS: Memoir; literary nonfiction; magazine writing and editing; journalism

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Debra Gwartney has a master's degree in journalism with an emphasis in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona, where she studied with Vivian Gornick. She also earned an MFA in Nonfiction and Literature from Bennington College. Her work has appeared in such literary journals as Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, Triquarterly Kenyon Review,, Washington Square Review, and Salon.com. She's been awarded fellowships from the Wurlitzer Foundation, Literary Arts, Hedgebrook, and the American Antiquarian Society. She's a former correspondent for Newsweek and for The Oregonian, and has contributed freelance articles to dozens of newspapers and magazines.

BOOKS
Live Through This, Houghton Mifflin, February 2009
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (co-edited with Barry Lopez), Trinity University Press 2006