Bill U’Ren

Bill U’Ren is an associate professor at Goucher College, where he teaches fiction writing and other narrative design courses. He earned his B.A. from UCLA and his master’s from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. His work has won the Donald Barthelme Award, the A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Short Fiction Award, and the C. Glenn Cambor Award. His film adaptation work began in 1988 with Box 100 for Columbia Pictures. His screenplay, 1296 Hits (co-written with Mark Poirier), earned an IFP No Borders Prize and is being produced by Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) and Jeanne Yang of Anonymous Content. U’Ren’s latest short story collection, Beware of Imitations, is forthcoming from Fiction Attic Press (San Francisco).

wuren@goucher.edu