Faculty

Ethan Rutherford

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M.F.A. University of Minnesota
B.A. Williams College

Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in Esopus, New York Tyrant, VERB, Faultline, American Short Fiction, Fiction on a Stick: New Stories by Minnesota Writers and will be included in the Best American Short Stories 2009 (edited by Alice Sebold). His work received Special Mention in the 2009 Pushcart Prize anthology, and he is the recent recipient of a SASE/Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers. In 2009, he received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.

Areas of Study

• Contemporary fiction (short stories and novels)
• Narrative non-fiction
• The literature of early Arctic exploration
• The history of the American whaling industry
• Science fiction

Fall 2009 Course

• Intro to Creative Writing

Publications

• “Peripatetic Coffin,” Best American Short Stories 2009, edited by Alice Sebold, Fall 2009
• “The Broken Group,” Fiction on a Stick: Stories by Writers from Minnesota, Milkweed Anthology, November 2008
• “Peripatetic Coffin,” American Short Fiction, Spring 2008
• “Camp Winnesaka,” Faultline, Spring 2007
• “The Saint Anna,” Verb: An Audio Literary Journal, Spring 2007
• “The Saint Anna,” New York Tyrant, Fall 2006
• "For Emergency Use Only,” Esopus, Spring 2005

Awards and Honors

• Inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2009
• SASE/Jerome Award for Emerging Writers
• Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2007, 2008
• Special Mention, Puschart Prize XXXIII: The Best of the Small Presses
• Cited for teaching excellence, University of Minnesota, 2008, 2009
• Anderson Center Summer Writing Fellowship
• Gesell Award for Fiction
• Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota