Bruce Ballenger

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Bruce Ballenger is an emeritus professor of English at Boise State University where he taught courses in creative nonfiction, composition theory and pedagogy, and inquiry-based learning. He is the author of seven books, including two best-selling rhetorics, The Curious Writer and The Curious Researcher, and a text on creative nonfiction, Crafting Truth: Short Studies in Creative Nonfiction.  Most recently, his essays have appeared in Fourth Genre,  River Teeth,  and Writer's Chronicle.  Ballenger earned an MA in Nonfiction and a Ph.D. in composition and literature at the University of New Hampshire.  He also has an MS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2018*

Pushcart (CNF) 2019*

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