Joe Wilkins - Associate Professor

TJ Day Hall 314
503-883-2564
jwilkins@linfield.edu

http://joewilkins.org/

Education: M.F.A in Creative Writing, The University of Idaho, 2007; B.S. in Computer Engineering, Honors, Gonzaga University, 2002

Academic Interests:
As a writer, I am concerned with issues of place, loss, survival, violence, belief, inheritance, silence, memory, and story; no matter the genre--creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry--I'm interested in language's power to plumb these and other essentials of the human experience. As a student of literature, I'm particularly interested in 20th Century American literature, environmental and place-based literature, and postmodernism.

Publications:

The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing up on the Big Dry. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2012.

Notes from the Journey Westward. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2012.

Killing the Murnion Dogs. New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2011.

Links

"Celilo Falls"
"Of Blood and Bone"
Excerpt from "Say"
"A Story We Might Follow"
"Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back"
The Mountain and the Fathers Playlist
Radio Interview at The Write Question