Lance Larsen

Biography

Lance Larsen, professor of English, currently serves as department chair.  He teaches American literature and creative writing, especially poetry. He is the author of five collections of poems, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018).  He has received a number of awards, including a Pushcart prize and fellowships from Sewanee, Ragdale, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2017, he completed a five-year term as poet laureate of Utah.    

Degrees

PhD, U of Houston, 1993