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Bret Lott (born October 8, 1958) is the New York Times author and professor of English at the College of Charleston.[1][2][3] He is Crazyhorse magazine's nonfiction editor[4] and leads a study abroad program every summer to Spoleto, Italy.
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Bret Lott | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | October 8, 1958
Education | California State University, Long Beach University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Author and Professor of Creative Writing |
Spouse | Melanie Swank Lott |
Lott was appointed to the National Council of the Arts[5] by President George W. Bush and served a six-year term. He was a Fulbright Senior American Scholar in 2006 and writer-in-residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was invited by Laura Bush to speak at the White House as part of the White House Symposium on “Classic American Stories” in 2004.
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1958, Lott grew up in Buena Park, California and Phoenix, Arizona, before returning to California to live in Huntington Beach. He met and married his wife of 40 years, Melanie Swank Lott, at First Baptist Church of Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach (1981), Lott headed to Massachusetts for graduate school at UMass Amherst. He received his MFA in 1984 and landed his first teaching position at Ohio State University. In 1986, Lott joined the English Department at the College of Charleston, where he is now a tenured professor and director of the new MFA program.[6]
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