Bob Cowser, Jr.

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Bob's essay "Poor White" (RIVER TEETH, Spring 2011) was listed among "Other Notable Essays " in the 2012 BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS anthology


2012 Nonfiction Now Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Bob will chair a panel on the legacy of James Agee's classic LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN
Cowser Wins Teaching Award, Gives "Last Lecture"
Click Above to Read Lecture to SLU Class of 2012 Published in HUFFINGTON POST

Bob and his books at the SOKY Book Fest

Bob presented at the Southern Kentucky Book Festival in Bowling Green on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at noon in the Knicely Center on the WKU campus.

Bob signed at The Looking Glass Coffee and Curiousities at 215 S. Lindell Street in Martin, TN from 1-3 in the afternoon on Saturday, April 2.


Bob signed and discussed GREEN FIELDS at Davis-Kidd Booksellers on Perkins Blvd on Memphis on March 30, 2011 at 6PM



Bob Reading at the Colgate Bookstore

Bob attended the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program National Educator's Institute at Temple University from June 22-28, 2009

Bob was again a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in May of 2009

Maverick Writing Studios a the Vermont Studio Center

COWSER TO READ IN CALIFORNIA Bob has been invited to read as part of the Casa Romantica Reading Series in San Clemente, CA on March 25, 2009. (Click for Link)

Bob will appear on the panel "Aftershock: What Happens When You Throw Off the Veil of Fiction in Rendering Long Hidden Truths? Strategies, Advice, and Practical Tips from Four Writers of Memoir" at the upcoming Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago in February. Click to link to the program.

Bob is now Associate Editor of RIVER TEETH magazine. Click for a link.

COWSER JOINS ASHLAND MFA FACULTY Bob has been hired as a visiting adjunct faculty member with the Ashland University Low Residency MFA program in Nonfiction and Poetry, beginning in July 2008 (click here to link)

EN FRANCE Bob and his family spent the spring semester 2008 in Rouen, France while he taught in SLU's abroad program there-- courses in travel writing and expatriate American literature.

Buy My Books!

Essay Anthology
Collection of 18 Familiar Essays by New York Writers
True Crime/Memoir
Memoir
A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team
Personal Essays
A Collection of Coming-of-Age Essays, (October 2006 from U. of South Carolina Press)
Personal Essays (Anthology)
Anthology of Personal Essays edited by Lee Gutkind