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Daniel Orozco
Research/Focus Areas
  • Fiction Writing
  • The Short Story
  • Writing Pedagogy
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • MFA Fiction Workshop
  • MFA Techniques of Fiction
  • Undergraduate Fiction Courses
  • American Short Story Survey Course
Who said you should be happy? Do your work. --Collette

Daniel Orozco

College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Associate Professor
Campus Locations: Moscow

With UI Since 2003

Office: Brink 220
Phone: (208) 885-5030; (208) 885-6156
Email: danielo@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, ID 83844-1102

 
  • MFA, University of Washington, 1994
  • BA, Stanford University, 1979

Daniel Orozco's work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All Story, and others.  He is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Faber and Faber), which will be released in paperback in May 2012.  He is currently at work on a novel.



Selected Publications

  • Orientation and Other Stories.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  2011.

Awards and Honors

  • Top Books of 2011.  For Orientation and Other Stories.  The Kansas City Star.
  • Best Books of 2011.  For Orientation and Other Stories.  The San Francisco Chronicle.
  • Best Books of 2011.  For Orientation and Other Stories.  Amazon.com.
  • Best Fiction of 2011.  For Orientation and Other Stories.  Kirkus Reviews.
  • Whiting Writers' Award.  Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.  2011
  • Literature Fellowship in Fiction.  Idaho Commission on the Arts.  2007.
  • Best American Essays 2007.  For “Shakers,” selected by Robert Atwan and David Foster Wallace, and reprinted in Best American Essays 2007.
  • National Magazine Award Finalist for Fiction.  For "Somoza's Dream."  2006.
  • Literature Fellowship in Prose.  National Endowment for the Arts.  2006.
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2005.  For “Officers Weep,” selected by Otto Penzler and Joyce Carol Oates, and reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories 2005.
  • Pushcart Prize 1997.  For “The Bridge,” selected by Bill Henderson and reprinted in The 1997 Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses.
  • Best American Short Stories 1995. For “Orientation,” selected by Katrina Kenison and Jane Smiley, and reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1995.