Conner Bassett

Conner Dylan Bassett holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of California-Santa Cruz, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in Russian and comparative literature from BYU – Provo. He has been an assistant professor of creative writing at Albright College since 2021.His research focuses on creative writing, the avant-garde, 20th- and 21st-century Pan-American literature, speculative fiction, fabulism, histories of the novel, translation studies, and narratives of disability, illness, and madness. He is the author of four books of creative writing, and his first novel, Gad’s Book, was published in 2023. Dr. Bassett is currently writing a novel about the suicide epidemic in Las Vegas.