Writers@WRUV

Greg Bottoms

UVM associate professor and author Greg Bottoms stops into the WRUV studios to talk about the allure of hate, the intersection between pain and creativity, and other lighthearted topics. Along the way, he shares his story “Dinner with Strangers,” which touches a bit on all of the above.

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Bottoms is the author of four books, including the memoir Angelhead: My Brother’s Descent into Madness, an Esquire Magazine “Book of the Year” in 2000; the prose collections Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories from the New South and Fight Scenes;  and the travel narrative The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art.

His essays, memoirs, and short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Oxford American, The Believer, Creative Nonfiction, Mississippi Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Utne, Salon, Killing the Buddha, and many other places, and have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Turkish.

He has taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing at the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Creative Writing Fellow, Sweet Briar College, where he was a teaching and writing fellow and visiting assistant professor, and the University of Vermont, where he is now an associate professor of English.