Gary Garrison

Gary Garrison was raised in the mountains of Colorado. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Denver, an MFA from Arizona State University, and a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri. In addition to teaching English and creative writing to undergraduate students at ASU, he has worked at a language academy in China, in secondary schools in Spain, and at newspapers across the U.S.

His fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, The Adroit Journal, Bayou Magazine, and other journals and magazines. His writing has been awarded a McGinnis-Ritchie Award, a Swarthout Award, and three Top of the Rockies awards for excellence in journalism. And he has also worked for the literary journals Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Missouri Review, and Copper Nickel.

He is currently a journalist in Boulder. He is working on his first novel.