Rick Bass, the 2019 Visiting Distinguished Writer at Boise State University, will give a reading with his graduate students. Bass is currently teaching the fiction workshop in the MFA Program in Creative Writing with Professor Mitch Wieland. Rick and his students will be reading from their work as the culminating event of the semester.
Rick Bass has written over 25 books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Watch, For a Little While, and Why I Came West. His fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, Esquire, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South. In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious Story Prize in Los Angeles. In addition to writing, Bass is a well-known environmental activist who lives in Montana.
