Nick Arvin, MFA
Nick Arvin grew up in Michigan, and he earned degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and Stanford. For several years he worked in product development at Ford Motor Company, and more recently he has been involved in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction.
He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of two books: In the Electric Eden: Stories and Articles of War, a novel which was named one of the books of year by Esquire magazine and won the Colorado Book Award. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, and his work has been honored with a Michener Fellowship, a Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Boyd Award from the American Library Association, and an Isherwood Foundation Fellowship.
Nick taught creative writing and rhetoric at the University of Iowa, and he has taught at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop since 2004.
For more on Nick, visit his web site: www.nickarvin.com.
(By the way, that's Nick on the left.)
This instructor has the following classes scheduled:
Collected Stories: The Whole or the Sum of the Parts? - starting 06/17/2008