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Daniel Orozco

Associate Professor Emeritus

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Daniel Orozco taught fiction writing.

    • M.F.A., University of Washington, 1994
    • B.A., Stanford University, 1979

    Daniel Orozco's work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All Story, Ecotone, and others.  He is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Faber and Faber).

    • Fiction Writing
    • The Short Story
    • Writing Pedagogy

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

    • Pushcart Prize 2022. For “Leave No Trace,” selected by Bill Henderson and reprinted in The 2022 Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses.
    • William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2012. For Orientation and Other Stories.
    • Whiting Writers' Award 2011. Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
    • Literature Fellowship in Fiction 2007. Idaho Commission on the Arts.
    • 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 2006. For "Somoza's Dream."
    • Literature Fellowship in Prose 2006. National Endowment for the Arts.
    • Best American Mystery Stories 2005. For “Officers Weep,” selected by Otto Penzler and Joyce Carol Oates, and reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories 2005.
    • Scowcroft & L’Heureux Fellowship in Fiction 1997-1999. Stegner Creative Writing Program. Stanford University.
    • 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.

    M.F.A. Creative Writing

    English Department

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    Email: creativewriting@uidaho.edu

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