D. W. White
“I want to write something new–something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.”
-f. scott fitzgerald
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Dan White writes consciousness-forward fiction and criticism. He is a current Ph.D. Candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches fiction workshop and introductory writing courses. He also teaches a graduate course on narrative theory and the work of Rachel Cusk in the MFA Program at Roosevelt University. Before returning to Chicago, he lived in Long Beach, California, for nine years.
A graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and Stony Brook University’s BookEnds Fellowship, he serves as Prose Editor for West Trade Review and Director of Fiction for Iron Oak Editions. With Jessica Denzer, he founded the journal L’Esprit Literary Review and the independent press Indirect Books.
His criticism appears in 3:AM, The Florida Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Necessary Fiction, and Chicago Review of Books, among others. His current critical work focuses on the intersection of narration and philosophy, predominantly via the novels of Rachel Cusk, as well as Modernist narrative theory. His creative writing is informed by his critical reading and research. His PhD dissertation, a contemporary retelling of Hamlet told with an emphasis on narrational technique, is on submission. In the meantime, he is at work on a new manuscript, a campus novel following that same character, Emily, a bit earlier in life, when things weren’t quite so complex.
I am about to write something good: something rich, & deep, & fluent & hard as nails, while bright as diamonds.
–Virignia woolf
Perhaps, he said, we are all like animals in a zoo, and once we see that one of us has gotten out of the enclosure, we shout at him to run like mad, even though it will only result in him becoming lost.
—Rachel Cusk, Outline
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