John Dalton
Assistant Professor484 Lucas Hall
314-516-5619
daltonj@umsl.edu
M.F.A. University of Iowa
B.A. University of Missouri-St. Louis
An alum of UM-St. Louis, and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where he was awarded a James Michener / Paul Engle fellowship, John Dalton published short stories in Story, The Alaska Quarterly Review and other literary magazines and received a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award and first and second year fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. John completed his first novel, critically acclaimed Heaven Lake. over the course of eight years while living in St. Louis, waiting tables, working in a bookstore, and teaching writing courses at local universities. Most recently, he has taught fiction workshops at Washington University’s Summer Writing Institute and the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, as well as the University of Missouri - St. Louis MFA Creative Writing Program.