Travis Kurowski, Ph.D.
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Meet Travis Kurowski
Travis Kurowski is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature and serves as program lead for English and Writing. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Little Star, Poets & Writers, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He co-edited Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century and edited Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and a Foreword IndieFab Award. He currently serves on the Boards of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and Story, which he co-founded in 2013. His current work includes a novel about wildfires and an art project about public private letters: Dear You.
- Fiction, Ph.D.
The Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi (2009) - Fiction, M.A.
The Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi (2006) - English, B.A.
Southern Oregon University (2003) - Theatre, B.A.
Southern Oregon University (2003)
- Faculty Advisor, The York Review
- Mid-Atlantic Council Chair, Association of Writers and Writing Programs
- Board of Directors, Story
- Fiction Writing
- Poetry Writing
- Creative Nonfiction Writing
- Literary Publishing
- Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- Creative writing
- Contemporary literature
- Publishing arts
- Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award: Best Debut, 2015
- Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal: Writing/Publishing, 2014
- Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Honorable Mention: Anthologies, 2013
- “The Location of Failure,” Among the Neighbors 26, University of Buffalo, 2023
- “Art Nowhere Else: Thoughts on the Literary Magazine,” North American Review, July 30, 2019
- Co-editor, Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, Milkweed Editions, 2016
- Literary MagNet, bimonthly column, Poets & Writers, 2012 - 2016
- Editor, Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, Atticus Books, 2013