Dan Leach
Instructor of English, Department of English, Charleston Southern University
9200 University Boulevard, Norris Hall, North Charleston, SC 29406
M: 864-354-7323
[email protected]
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Fiction, Warren Wilson College, July 2020 Thesis: Human and Unalone: Possibilities for Intimacy in Fiction
Supervisors: Debra Spark, T. Geronimo Johnson, Allegra Hyde, Dean Bakopoulos
M.A. in English, Clemson University, May 2020
Thesis: Here Am I: The Disruptive Presence in William Apess’s “Eulogy on King Philip”
Supervisors: Keith Lee Morris, Nic Brown, Dr. Jonathan Beecher Field
B.A. in Secondary Education: English, Clemson University, May 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of English, Charleston Southern University (2020 - Present)
Instructor of Record, Clemson University, Early American Literature (2019 - 2020)
Instructor of Record, Clemson University, Composition and Rhetoric (2018 - 2019)
English Teacher, Faith Christian Middle School (2014 - 2016)
English Teacher and Journalism Supervisor, James Island Charter High (2012 - 2014)
English Teacher, C.A. Johnson High (2009 - 2012)
English Teacher, Northwood Middle (2008 - 2009)
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Faculty Supervisor for SEFER (2020-Present)
Fiction Editor at Driftwood Press (2016 - Present)
Associate Fiction Editor at The South Carolina Review (2018 - 2020)
Research Assistant, Clemson University, Status of Women Committee (2018 - 2019)
BOOKS
Floods and Fires. University of North Georgia, 2017.
Dead Mediums. Trident Press, 2022.
Stray Latitudes, Texas Review Press, 2024.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“The Day Getting Dark” Drafthorse Literary Magazine, 2012.
“Everything Must Go” Deep South, 2012
“Transportation” The Greensboro Review, 2013.
“Civil” The New Madrid Review, 2013.
“Simple Economics”Serving House Literary Journal, 2013.
“Floods and Fires” Appalachian Heritage, 2013.
“The Sinner’s Prayer” Wayfarer, 2013.
“Como Se Dice ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore’?” Southern Tablet, 2014.
“The Important Thing” Two Bridges Review, 2014.
“At A Rest Stop Outside of Newberry” Firewords Quarterly, 2014.
“Digger Duane” Hobart, 2015.
“Daddy Issues” Steel Toe Review, 2015.
“Midnight Showing” Straylight, 2015.
“Brother Bill Leaves the Narrow Path” Smokelong Quarterly, 2015.
“The Other Son” Gravel, 2015.
“Basic Decency” Driftwood, 2015.
“The Garden of a Thousand Suns” Fiction Southeast, 2015.
“White as Snow” BULL, 2017.
“Lamentation # 47” Steel Toe Review, 2017.
“Places Without Porches” The New Madrid Review, 2017.
“Parked Outside of Our Old Home” The Blue Mountain Review, 2017.
“Peniel” storySouth, 2018.
“The Door” Wraparound South, 2018.
“Bastards” Prime Numbers (Press 53), 2019.
“Lockjaw” Isthmus, 2019.
“Wasp Queen” Copper Nickel, 2020.
“The Five Stages of Hunger” Yalobusha Review, 2020.
“Invitation” The Sun, 2021.
“Never Trust a Man with a Pinkie Ring” New Orleans Review, 2021.
“A Brief Questionnaire…” The Spotlong Review, 2022.
“In That Day, A Pleasant Vineyard, Sing of It!” The Indianapolis Review, 2022.
“The Starlight on 2nd” Apocalypse Confidential, 2022.
“Sobriety” On the Seawall, 2023.
“Whale Fall” Bayou, 2023.
“The Dead Tongue Latitudes” Leon Literary Review, 2023.
“The First Twenty-Four Years of My Life” Apocalypse Confidential, 2023.
“Night Drive” Bruiser, 2023.
“The Vision of St. Junah” Southwest Review, 2023.
“Trash” Barren, 2023.
Work forthcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, The Sun and Quarter After Eight
AWARDS AND HONORS
Awarded The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, South Carolina (2023)
Awarded South Carolina Poetry Society’s Starkey Flythe Memorial Prize for “Ally” (2022)
Editors Prize from Copper Nickel for “Wasp Queen” (2021)
Floods and Fires longlisted for Southern Book Prize (2018)
Pushcart Prize Nominations for “Everything Must Go” and “Basic Decency” (2012, 2016)
The Lucy Rollin Annual Children’s Literature Award (2007)
Instructor of English, Department of English, Charleston Southern University
9200 University Boulevard, Norris Hall, North Charleston, SC 29406
M: 864-354-7323
[email protected]
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Fiction, Warren Wilson College, July 2020 Thesis: Human and Unalone: Possibilities for Intimacy in Fiction
Supervisors: Debra Spark, T. Geronimo Johnson, Allegra Hyde, Dean Bakopoulos
M.A. in English, Clemson University, May 2020
Thesis: Here Am I: The Disruptive Presence in William Apess’s “Eulogy on King Philip”
Supervisors: Keith Lee Morris, Nic Brown, Dr. Jonathan Beecher Field
B.A. in Secondary Education: English, Clemson University, May 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of English, Charleston Southern University (2020 - Present)
Instructor of Record, Clemson University, Early American Literature (2019 - 2020)
Instructor of Record, Clemson University, Composition and Rhetoric (2018 - 2019)
English Teacher, Faith Christian Middle School (2014 - 2016)
English Teacher and Journalism Supervisor, James Island Charter High (2012 - 2014)
English Teacher, C.A. Johnson High (2009 - 2012)
English Teacher, Northwood Middle (2008 - 2009)
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Faculty Supervisor for SEFER (2020-Present)
Fiction Editor at Driftwood Press (2016 - Present)
Associate Fiction Editor at The South Carolina Review (2018 - 2020)
Research Assistant, Clemson University, Status of Women Committee (2018 - 2019)
BOOKS
Floods and Fires. University of North Georgia, 2017.
Dead Mediums. Trident Press, 2022.
Stray Latitudes, Texas Review Press, 2024.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“The Day Getting Dark” Drafthorse Literary Magazine, 2012.
“Everything Must Go” Deep South, 2012
“Transportation” The Greensboro Review, 2013.
“Civil” The New Madrid Review, 2013.
“Simple Economics”Serving House Literary Journal, 2013.
“Floods and Fires” Appalachian Heritage, 2013.
“The Sinner’s Prayer” Wayfarer, 2013.
“Como Se Dice ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore’?” Southern Tablet, 2014.
“The Important Thing” Two Bridges Review, 2014.
“At A Rest Stop Outside of Newberry” Firewords Quarterly, 2014.
“Digger Duane” Hobart, 2015.
“Daddy Issues” Steel Toe Review, 2015.
“Midnight Showing” Straylight, 2015.
“Brother Bill Leaves the Narrow Path” Smokelong Quarterly, 2015.
“The Other Son” Gravel, 2015.
“Basic Decency” Driftwood, 2015.
“The Garden of a Thousand Suns” Fiction Southeast, 2015.
“White as Snow” BULL, 2017.
“Lamentation # 47” Steel Toe Review, 2017.
“Places Without Porches” The New Madrid Review, 2017.
“Parked Outside of Our Old Home” The Blue Mountain Review, 2017.
“Peniel” storySouth, 2018.
“The Door” Wraparound South, 2018.
“Bastards” Prime Numbers (Press 53), 2019.
“Lockjaw” Isthmus, 2019.
“Wasp Queen” Copper Nickel, 2020.
“The Five Stages of Hunger” Yalobusha Review, 2020.
“Invitation” The Sun, 2021.
“Never Trust a Man with a Pinkie Ring” New Orleans Review, 2021.
“A Brief Questionnaire…” The Spotlong Review, 2022.
“In That Day, A Pleasant Vineyard, Sing of It!” The Indianapolis Review, 2022.
“The Starlight on 2nd” Apocalypse Confidential, 2022.
“Sobriety” On the Seawall, 2023.
“Whale Fall” Bayou, 2023.
“The Dead Tongue Latitudes” Leon Literary Review, 2023.
“The First Twenty-Four Years of My Life” Apocalypse Confidential, 2023.
“Night Drive” Bruiser, 2023.
“The Vision of St. Junah” Southwest Review, 2023.
“Trash” Barren, 2023.
Work forthcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, The Sun and Quarter After Eight
AWARDS AND HONORS
Awarded The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, South Carolina (2023)
Awarded South Carolina Poetry Society’s Starkey Flythe Memorial Prize for “Ally” (2022)
Editors Prize from Copper Nickel for “Wasp Queen” (2021)
Floods and Fires longlisted for Southern Book Prize (2018)
Pushcart Prize Nominations for “Everything Must Go” and “Basic Decency” (2012, 2016)
The Lucy Rollin Annual Children’s Literature Award (2007)