Biography
Donald Anderson was born in Butte, Montana in 1946. His fiction
and essays have appeared in The North American Review, Fiction
International, Epoch, PRISM international, Western Humanities
Review, Columbia, Michigan Quarterly Review, Connecticut Review,
and elsewhere. Since 1989, he’s been Editor of War, Literature &
the Arts: an international journal of the humanities. He’s editor,
too, of aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction (Henry Holt,
1995), Andre Dubus: Tributes (Xavier University Press, 2001), and
When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War
to Iraq (University of Iowa Press, 2008). His story "Fire Road" was
awarded First Place in the Society for the Study of the Short Story
2000 Contest, and the collection Fire Road won Iowa's 2001 John
Simmons Short Fiction award. His essay "Rock Salt" was named a
"Notable Essay of 2007" in the 2008 The Best American Essays, the
second time an essay of his has been so selected. His essay "Luck"
was listed in 1999. In 1996, he received a Creative Writers’
Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He
holds an MFA from Cornell University. A former Air Force officer, he
now lives in Colorado, where he directs creative writing at the United
States Air Force Academy.
Donald Anderson was born in Butte, Montana in 1946. His fiction
and essays have appeared in The North American Review, Fiction
International, Epoch, PRISM international, Western Humanities
Review, Columbia, Michigan Quarterly Review, Connecticut Review,
and elsewhere. Since 1989, he’s been Editor of War, Literature &
the Arts: an international journal of the humanities. He’s editor,
too, of aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction (Henry Holt,
1995), Andre Dubus: Tributes (Xavier University Press, 2001), and
When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War
to Iraq (University of Iowa Press, 2008). His story "Fire Road" was
awarded First Place in the Society for the Study of the Short Story
2000 Contest, and the collection Fire Road won Iowa's 2001 John
Simmons Short Fiction award. His essay "Rock Salt" was named a
"Notable Essay of 2007" in the 2008 The Best American Essays, the
second time an essay of his has been so selected. His essay "Luck"
was listed in 1999. In 1996, he received a Creative Writers’
Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He
holds an MFA from Cornell University. A former Air Force officer, he
now lives in Colorado, where he directs creative writing at the United
States Air Force Academy.
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"Art grants access to a larger world,
allows us to live other lives, allows us
to examine the quality and meaning of
our own lives."
allows us to live other lives, allows us
to examine the quality and meaning of
our own lives."