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Whitney Terrell
New Letters Writer-in-Residence
Graduate Faculty
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Whitney Terrell, New Letters Distinguished Writer-in-Residence (B.A. Princeton University 1991; M.F.A. the University of Iowa 1994). Graduate faculty in Creative Writing. Mr. Terrell is the author of The Huntsman (Viking 2001), a New York Times notable book, and The King of Kings County (Viking 2005) which won the William Rockhill Nelson award from The Kansas City Star and was selected as a best book of 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor. In 2006, he was named one of 20 “writers to watch” under 40 by members of the National Book Critics Circle. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Details, The New York Observer, The Kansas City Star, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Recently, he embedded with the 22nd infantry in Baghdad, an experience he covered for The Washington Post.
He directs the Writers at Work series, which is produced in co-operation with the UMKC English Department and the Kansas City Public Library. This six-year-old series has brought authors like Russell Banks, Jonathan Lethem, Tony Swofford, and Samantha Chang to Kansas City, along with editors like Grove Atlantic’s Elisabeth Schmitz. He is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the James A. Michener-Copernicus Society Award, and the Missouri Library Association Literary Award.
Degrees:
- M.F.A., The University of Iowa
- B.A., Princeton University
Areas of Specialization:
- Creative Writing (fiction and nonfiction)
Courses:
- Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Other:
- www.whitneyterrell.com
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