Professor Bill Broun
MFA, University of Houston
wbroun@po-box.esu.edu

Bill Broun teaches professional and creative writing at ESU, with a focus on journalism, magazine writing, and creative non-fiction. His journalism and literary criticism have appeared in many major newspapers and magazines (Washington Post, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, and more), as well as specialty publications such as The Architects’ Journal and Publishers Weekly. He was on staff at the Guardian Newspaper in Britain. As a journalist for several years in Houston, he covered serious crime, major natural and industrial disasters, and municipal government and politics. His fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Open City, and elsewhere. He was educated at Miami University and University College, London, and holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. He is a fellow of Timothy Dwight College at Yale University, where he taught English and journalism from 2002 to 2006. He recently completed his first novel, Night of The Animals.