University of Maine
Address:
Bruce Pratt
Adjunct Faculty in English
The Hutchinson Center
Belmont Avenue (Route #3)
Belfast, ME 04915
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 338-8000
E-mail: bruce.pratt@umit.maine.edu
***Prof. Pratt will be teaching and holding office hours at the Frederick Hutchinson Center for Spring 2009.***
Born in 1951 in Bronxville NY, Professor Pratt grew up in Connecticut. He graduated from Vermont Academy in 1969, Franklin and Marshall College with a BA in Religious Studies in 1973, The University of Maine with a Masters Degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing in 2001, and The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA with a degree in creative writing with a focus on short fiction, and a concentration in Critical Theory. Prof. Pratt and his wife, Janet, live in Eddington, Maine.
Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Award in fiction, Bruce Pratt won the 2007 Andre Dubus Award in short fiction, and was a runner up or finalist for the 2007 fiction award from Georgetown Review, the 2007 flash fiction prize from Mindprints, the 2006 Ontario Prize, the 2005 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, and the 2003 Fiction Award from Dogwood, A Journal of Poetry and Prose. His short fiction has also appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Boston Fiction Annual Review, The Dos Passos Review, WordSmitten Quarterly Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Portland Magazine, Watchword, The Staccato Literary Magazine, The Gihon River Review, The Dalhousie Review, Puckerbrush Review, Cooweescoowee, Vermont Literary Review, Hawk and Handsaw, The Blue Earth Review, Diner, Roanoke Review, Potomac Review, The Binnacle, Apocalypse, Crosscut, and Stolen Island Review.
Prof. Pratt’s poetry collection Boreal is available from Antrim House Books. He is the winner of the 2007 Ellipsis Prize in poetry, a finalist for the Erskine J. Poetry award from Smartish Pace, and his poems have appeared in, Only Connect, an anthology from Cinnamon Press, (Wales) Smartish Pace, The 2007 Goose River Anthology, Revival (Ireland), Puckerbrush Review, The Poet’s Touchstone, Rock and Sling, Red Rock Review, Crosscut, The Unrorean, Heartland Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review.
His nonfiction has appeared in the Yale Anglers’ Journal, Vermont Literary Review, Hartford Courant, Bangor Daily News, Salty Dog, Bangor Metro, and Portland Magazine.
His play Electrolysis was performed at the 2008 Maine Short Play Festival, and as part of the 2nd Annual Northern Writes New Play Festival in Bangor.
Education
M.F.A., University of Southern Maine (2004)
M.A., University of Maine (2001)
Course Taught:
ENG 101: College Composition
ENG 229: Topics in Literature - Irish Literature
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