:: Bio ::
I received my M.A. in English in 1987 when, under the direction of Robert Bristow, I completed the first creative thesis in the
history of Winthrop University. I became a professor there and taught for eight years, serving for a time as writer-in-residence
and faculty advisor to the student literary magazine.
In 1996, I earned my M.F.A. in writing and poetics (prose concentration) from the famed Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics at Naropa University, where I studied with Keith Abbott, Jack Collom, Allen Ginsberg, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Hubert
Selby, Jr., Steven Taylor, and many other rebel angels of the literary scene.
Thus far, I have written four novels: The Revenants (1999, 2001), Shadow Clock (2002), Blind Horses (2002), and Morning
Glory's Long Lost Order of Worship (2005). In a previous life, I collaborated with three fellow Naropa alums--Donovan Glover,
Chris Lusvardi, and Junior Burke--on the experimental novel Stripmall Bohemia (1996). Stripmall Bohemia and Shadow Clock
have both enjoyed a number of film options.
Two of my short stories, "That Walk in Darkness" and "The Brook of Ravens," received the Robert P. Lane Award for fiction.
"The Blue Heron's Quarry" received an honorable mention from the Hemingway Days fiction contest in Key West, Florida.
"Learning Aikido," a nonfiction piece, appeared in Aikido Today Magazine, an international journal of the martial arts.
"Connemara: Rediscovering a Poet of the People," an essay about the idyllic home where Carl Sandburg spent his last
years, was awarded a prize by The Writers' Workshop in Asheville, NC.
Most of my work lies outside the mystery genre, but in 1999, I was accepted as an active member by the Mystery Writers of
America, Southeast chapter, an affiliation that I continue to enjoy to this day.
history of Winthrop University. I became a professor there and taught for eight years, serving for a time as writer-in-residence
and faculty advisor to the student literary magazine.
In 1996, I earned my M.F.A. in writing and poetics (prose concentration) from the famed Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics at Naropa University, where I studied with Keith Abbott, Jack Collom, Allen Ginsberg, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Hubert
Selby, Jr., Steven Taylor, and many other rebel angels of the literary scene.
Thus far, I have written four novels: The Revenants (1999, 2001), Shadow Clock (2002), Blind Horses (2002), and Morning
Glory's Long Lost Order of Worship (2005). In a previous life, I collaborated with three fellow Naropa alums--Donovan Glover,
Chris Lusvardi, and Junior Burke--on the experimental novel Stripmall Bohemia (1996). Stripmall Bohemia and Shadow Clock
have both enjoyed a number of film options.
Two of my short stories, "That Walk in Darkness" and "The Brook of Ravens," received the Robert P. Lane Award for fiction.
"The Blue Heron's Quarry" received an honorable mention from the Hemingway Days fiction contest in Key West, Florida.
"Learning Aikido," a nonfiction piece, appeared in Aikido Today Magazine, an international journal of the martial arts.
"Connemara: Rediscovering a Poet of the People," an essay about the idyllic home where Carl Sandburg spent his last
years, was awarded a prize by The Writers' Workshop in Asheville, NC.
Most of my work lies outside the mystery genre, but in 1999, I was accepted as an active member by the Mystery Writers of
America, Southeast chapter, an affiliation that I continue to enjoy to this day.
:: Brian Agincourt Massey ::
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