Brendan Bowles

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Interim Director of the MFA of the Americas Program

Brendan Bowles is a writer from Toronto, Canada. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2019-2021) and a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2017-2018). He holds an MA from the University of Toronto and an MFA from The University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work has been published and produced for stage and radio and has won some of the largest short story awards in Canada, including an Emerging Writer Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from Villa Sarkia, Lighthouse Works, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Banff Center, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada, British Columbia, and Toronto Arts Councils.

• 2017 MFA, Creative Writing, Fiction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2011 MA, English in the Field of Creative Writing, University of Toronto
• 2009 BA, English, University of Toronto

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