
DONALD ANDERSON
Department of English & Fine Arts
2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D-149
USAF Academy CO 80840-6242
Donald.Anderson@usafa.edu
www.WLAjournal.com
Born
July 9, 1946; Butte, Montana
Education
B.A., English, Utah State University, 1970
M.A., English, University of Utah, 1979
M.F.A., Creative Writing/Fiction, Cornell University, 1989
Current Position
Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at the U.S.
Air Force Academy
Editor, War, Literature & the Arts: An International
Journal of the Humanities
Selected Distinctions
Elected to membership in the International Association of
University Professors of English, 2007
Operation Homecoming:Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home
Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families,
New York: Random House, 2006.
[Selected by the Chairman, National Endowment for the
Arts, to serve on nine-member writers’ panel to make
final selections for the volume]
Iowa’s John Simmons Short Fiction Award, 2001
Creative Writers’ Fellowship, National Endowment for the
Arts, 1996-97
"Of course life and art are different--if they
weren't, we wouldn't need art. We could just
all walk around with camcorders."
Donald Anderson
Updated: 3 Mar 10