Greg Bills M.F.A.
he/him/hisEducation
- M.F.A., Fiction Writing, University of California, Irvine
- B.A., English, University of Utah
Professional Background
Greg Bills is a fiction writer and teacher. Originally from Midvale, Utah (ten miles south of Salt Lake City), he graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Utah and received an M.F.A. in fiction writing from UC Irvine.
He is the author of two novels: "Consider This Home" (Simon and Schuster) and "Fearful Symmetry" (Dutton/Penguin). "Consider This Home" was well-reviewed: playwright Tony Kushner called it a "wonderful, exciting novel…fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times, very sexy,"and novelist Antonya Nelson in the Los Angeles Times said that the main character was "one of the most memorable consciousnesses I've had the pleasure to inhabit in recent fiction." The book was a Literary Guild alternate selection and was published in England by Marion Boyars. "Fearful Symmetry" was also well-received and appeared in trade paperback from Plume.
Experience
In addition to the University of Redlands, Greg has taught at UC Irvine, in the UCLA and UC Irvine Extension Programs and at Irvine Valley College. He has also served on the Fiction Staff at the Community of Writers Conference in Squaw Valley, California
Publications
2010: "Before The Red," story, in Fairy Tale Review.
2007: "Jack and the Giant," essay, Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press).
2005: "Monster and Critic," roundtable on writing and publishing, in Fall 2005 Santa Monica Review and online.
1996: Fearful Symmetry, novel (Dutton; paperback, Plume)
1994: Consider This Home, novel (Simon and Schuster; U.K. Marion Boyars)