The Creative Writing Program invites you to a fiction reading with Jason Brown.

Jason Brown is a fiction and nonfiction writer. He was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford University, where he taught as a Jones Lecturer. He has received fellowships from the Yaddo and Macdowell colonies and from the Saltonsall Foundation. He taught for many years in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and now teaches at the University of Oregon, where he is a professor and the Director of the MFA Program. He has published three books of short stories, Driving the Heart and Other Stories (Norton/Random House), Why the Devil Chose New England For His Work (Open City/Grove Atlantic), and A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, published in the fall of 2019 as part of the short fiction series by Missouri Review Books. His stories and essays have won several awards and appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, The L.A. Times, The Guardian, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Missouri Review, and other venues.

Several of his stories have been performed as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts, and his collection Why The Devil Chose New England For His Work was chosen as a summer reading pick by National Public Radio. Jason’s third book of stories won the Maine Literary Prize for Fiction and an Independent Publisher Book Award. In the fall of 2024 a novel called Outermark will be published by Paul Dry Books, and in 2025 a memoir called Character Witness will be published by the American Lives Series. He was the cowriter with Bill Guttentag of a feature film called Rule Breakers: The Story of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, which will be released in theaters across the country in the spring of 2025 and later on Amazon Prime.

For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series