Joseph Horton
Joe Horton teaches advanced composition, environmental writing, business writing, journalism, fiction, and film courses in the University Writing Program and English Department. He is formerly interim director of the English Department Writing Program at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of the Zell Writers' Program, and his recent fiction and nonfiction has appeared with Ploughshares, Hobart, Midwestern Gothic, the Colorado Review and TIME magazine. He is also playwright-in-residence with Savio(u)r Theatre Company, and his plays have been nominated for six Off West End Awards in London, including Best New Play. He worked previously for the national nightly broadcast of the PBS NewsHour and in the London office of Ketchum/Pleon PR and communications.
He regularly collaborates with the faculty and students of Dine' College on the Navajo Nation:
http://ls.ucdavis.edu/news-events/harcs-news/navajo-uwp.html
https://wheel.ucdavis.edu/2020/04/30/curiosity-collaboration-community/
M.F.A., Prose, University of Michigan
B.A. Theatre, B.A. Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. Salutatorian of the Class of 2007, Phi Beta Kappa
Pushcart Prize Nominee (2016)
Fellow, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation (2016)
BEN Prize for Outstanding Teaching of Writing (2013)
Outstanding GSI Award (2012)
Moscow Prize for Outstanding Teaching of Composition (2012)
Hopwood Awards for Novel, Screenplay, and Drama (2010, 2011)
Gosling Prize for Novel (2011)
Tyson Prize in Fiction (2010)
Farrar Memorial Playwriting Grant (2010)
Fiction:
"Shoot the Tiger," Colorado Review (2016)
“Mitosis,” Midwestern Gothic (Summer 2015)
“The Tribe,” Day One (January 2015)
“Detroit Edison,” Joyland (April 2014)
“Foxes,” Hobart (January 2014)
Nonfiction:
"An After-Curfew Drive With My New Baby..." TIME Magazine (2020)
"A Little Town," PRISM international (2020)
"FaceTiming with Our Baby's First Ultrasound," TIME Magazine (2020)
"Dispatches from the Treehouse," Hobart (2019-2022)
"Amicus Briefly," The Awl (2017)
"Writ in Water" series for Ploughshares online (2016)
Plays:
At the Broken Places (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010, London Cock Tavern Theatre 2011)
The Toll (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011)
American Cousins (London Tristan Bates Theatre, Performed Reading, 2012)
Profiles and Features:
“Till Death Do They Part,” Denver Westword (June 2007)
“Tia Maria Torres: Underdogs,” LA Weekly (May 2007)
Columns:
“Wooden Nickels,” Campus Circle Magazine (2007—2009)
“The Donkey Show” and “Demver,” National Political Correspondent, Denver Westword (2008)
Theatre Critic, Denver Daily News (2006)
Articles and Journalism:
5280 magazine, the Colorado Daily, the Colorado Springs Gazette, College Publisher/MTV University News, the Edinburgh Evening News, Gelf Magazine, The PBS NewsHour, Student Traveler magazine, Denver Westword.