Chad Hanson

1969 -

Casper, Wyo.

Biographical and Professional Information

Chad Hanson lives in Casper, Wyoming, with his wife Lynn and their two cats—Skye and Sherpa. 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, The Concho River Review, Talking River 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.