Research/Focus Areas
- Fiction Writing
- Short Story
- Pedagogy
My Courses
- English 392: Intermediate Fiction Writing
- English 492: Advanced Fiction Writing
- English 582: Techniques of Fiction
- English 592: MFA Fiction Workshop
Daniel Orozco
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Assistant Professor
Campus Locations
- Moscow
Office: Brink 220
Phone: (208) 885-5030; (208) 885-6156
Email: Daniel Orozco
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102
Phone: (208) 885-5030; (208) 885-6156
Email: Daniel Orozco
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102
- M.F.A., University of Washington, 1994
- M.A., San Francisco State University, 1992
- B.A., Stanford University, 1979
Daniel Orozco has published work in Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in Harper’s Magazine, Zoetrope, McSweeney’s, StoryQuarterly, and others. He was a Scowcroft and L’Heureux Fiction Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Fiction in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. He has been awarded residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Lannan Foundation, and is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS*
- “Only Connect.” Ecotone. Volume 4, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter 2008): Pages 288 - 298.
- “Shakers.” StoryQuarterly. Number 42 (Oct 2006): Pages 45-59.
- “Somoza’s Dream.” McSweeney’s. Issue 18 (Dec 2005): Pages 29 - 61.
- Officers Weep.” Harper’s Magazine. Volume 308, Number 1849 (Jun 2004): Pages 81 - 84.
OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS*
- Interview. “Superstition Review Wants to Know: Daniel Orozco.” Superstition Review: the Literary & Art Journal of Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus. http://www.asu.edu/superstitionreview/n2/interviews.html. Nov 2008.
- Interview. NEA Spotlight: An In-Depth Look at NEA-Funded Projects. National Endowment for the Arts. http://www.arts.gov/ features/storiesCMS/ story.php?id=2007_12_05. Dec 2007.
HONORS & AWARDS*
- Special Mention. For “Shakers,” selected by the editors of The 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses.
- MacDowell Colony Fellowship. The MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, New Hampshire. 2008 & 2005.
- 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.
- Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2006. For “Shakers,” selected by Dave Eggers, Series Editor of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007.
- National Magazine Award Finalist for Fiction. For “Somoza’s Dream,” published in McSweeney’s. American Society of Magazine Editors, 2006.
- Lannan Writing Residency. Lannan Foundation. Marfa, TX. 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.
- 100 Distinguished Stories of 1995. For “The Bridge,” selected by Katrina Kenison, Series Editor of Best American Short Stories 1996.
- Best American Short Stories 1995.*See CV for full listings of publications, research, outreach and awards. For “Orientation,” selected by Katrina Kenison and Jane Smiley, and reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1995.
*See CV for full listings of publications, research, outreach and awards.