1969 -

Casper, Wyo.

Biographical and Professional Information

Chad Hanson lives in Casper, Wyoming, with his wife Lynn and their two cats—Sherpa and Scout. At various times he’s worked as a roofer, desk clerk, bicycle mechanic and roller skating rink disk jockey. Today he teaches sociology at Casper College. His short stories, essays and poems have appeared in Third Coast, Pilgrimage, Big Sky Journal, Mountain Gazette, South Dakota Review, Yale Angler’s Journal, and North Dakota Quarterly. A collection of his stories, Swimming with Trout, is currently available from the University of New Mexico Press. In addition to writing and publishing literature, Hanson’s work also appears in social science periodicals such as College Teaching, Thought & Action, Teaching Sociology, The Teaching Professor, The Educational Forum, The National Teaching and Learning Forum, The Journal of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Contemporary Sociology among others.

Genres

Autobiography or Biography
Essay
Fiction
Poetry
Nonfiction

Titles

Swimming with Trout (2007). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 978-0-8263-4184-6.

Speaking Engagements

Contact:chanson@caspercollege.edu

Upcoming appearances

Equality State Book Festival Sept. 18-20, 2008 Casper, Wyoming

 Create your own free wiki!Help Add to Del.ici.ous Add to Digg Add to Reddit Add to fUrl Add to SpurlPublic, Platinum wiki Privacy Policy RSS