Dustin Parsons has an MA from Kansas State University and an MFA from Bowling Green State University. He has previously served as the non-fiction editor of The Mid-American Review. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant in creative non-fiction, the 2013 American Literary Review Prize in fiction, the 2014 fiction prize from The Laurel Review and a "notable" in the 2014 Best American Essays. He was awarded a residency fellowship at Wyoming's Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts. He is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia where he teaches creative writing workshops in poetry and fiction, courses in American studies, 9/11 literature, and literary publishing. He lives in western New York with his wife, the poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and their two wily toddlers.
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