Brandon Schrand
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Assistant Professor
Home Town:
Soda Springs, Idaho
With UI Since 2007
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M.F.A., Creative Writing (Nonfiction), University of Idaho, 2006
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M.S., American Studies, Utah State University, 2003
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B.A., English Literature, Southern Utah University, 1998
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Literary essays
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Memoir
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Avant-garde literary nonfiction
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Western American literature
Brandon R. Schrand is the author of Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem & Misbehavior (2013) and The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner, a 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students selection, and a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has also has essays forthcoming in several anthologies including Borne on Air: Essays by Idaho Writers (EWU Press); Now Write!: Nonfiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin); and The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood (Ecco/Harper Collins).
He has won the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, Shenandoah’s 2008 Carter Prize, the Pushcart Prize, four Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and has had Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2007, 2008, and 2009. His nonfiction has also earned a Yaddo residency. He lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.
- Schrand, Brandon R. Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem & Misbehavior (U. Nebraska Press, 2013).
- Schrand, Brandon R. The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (Bison Books, 2007).
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Portrait of the Past as Memory,” Now Write!: Nonfiction Writing Exercises by Today’s Best Writers and Teachers, Tarcher/Penguin, Sherry Ellis, Editor. Fall 2009.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Comparative History,” The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood, Ecco/Harper Collins, Ben George, Editor. May 2009.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Works Cited,” The Missouri Review, Fall 2008.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “On Failure,” Blood Orange Review, Fall 2008.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Growing Up Superfund,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, Spring 2009.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “The Bone Road,” Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee Review. Spring 2008.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “When the Pipe Bomb Blows,” (reprint), Dallas Morning News, Op-Ed Page, “The Point.” Sunday edition, November 17, 2007.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Eleven Ways to Consider Air,” (reprint), Borne on Air: Essays by Idaho Writers, Eastern Washington University Press, Mary Clearman Blew & Phil Druker, Eds. (April 2009).
- Schrand, Brandon R. “When the Pipe Bomb Blows,” The Utne Reader (reprint), November/December 2007.
- Schrand, Brandon R. “Wrestling Gene Simmons and Other Demons,” Tin House, “Evil Issue,” Spring 2007.
- Panel Participant. “The River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Denver, CO, April 7—11, 2009.
- “An Unlikely Life in Letters.” Invited to give a university-wide Convocation lecture at Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, October 6, 2009.
- “Designing a Writer’s Life.” Invited to give talk at Get Lit! in Spokane, Washington. April 17, 2009.
- “Writing the Range: Writing Creatively Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.” Western Literature Association Conference, Spearfish, South Dakota, Sept 30—Oct. 3, 2009.
- Recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship for a summer 2009 residency to work on current book, Works Cited.
- Winner of 2008 Thomas H. Carter Prize for essay, "The Bone Road," published in Shenandoah, Spring/Summer 2008 ($1,000.00).
- The Enders Hotel named one of the Best Adult Books for High School Students of 2008 by School Library Journal.
- The Enders Hotel named one of the Best Western Books of 2008 by NewWest.com.
- Essay, “Eleven Ways to Consider Air,” selected by Robert Atwan as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2008. Adam Gopnik (Guest Editor).
- Winner of the 2009 Pushcart Prize for essay, “Eleven Ways to Consider Air.” Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, Editor.
- Memoir, The Enders Hotel, picked as a summer 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection.
- Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, University of Idaho Pan-Hellenic/Inter-Fraternal Council, 2008.
- Essay, “The Enders Hotel,” title piece from memoir, selected by Robert Atwan as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2007. David Foster Wallace (Guest Editor).
