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Department of English
University of Mississippi

Chris Offutt

Education

  • M.F.A., Fiction. The University of Iowa (1990)
  • B.A., Theatre, Morehead State University (1981)

Selected Honors

  • Writers Guild of America Nominee for best writing, “True Blood” (2008)
  • Lannan fellowship for Fiction (2003)
  • Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Fiction (1996)
  • Best American Short Stories
  • Best American Essays
  • Pushcart Prize

Selected Publications:

Books


  • Country Dark, 2018
  • My Father the Pornographer, 2016
  • No Heroes (memoir) (2002)
  • Out of the Woods (stories) (1999)
  • The Good Brother (novel) (1997)
  • The Same River Twice (memoir) (1993)
  • Kentucky Straight (stories) (1992)

Screenplays


  • Treme, 2012
  • “Tough Trade” (various episodes) Lions Gate (2010)
  • “Weeds” Showtime (2009)
  • “True Blood” (episodes 107, 110) (2007, 2008)
  • “Out of the Woods” (2004)

Film


  • The Trapper (2011)
  • Out of the Woods

Office
C218 Bondurant
offutt at olemiss.edu[/five_sixth_last]