Justin Tussing

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Associate Professor of English
Director of Stonecoast MFA

207-780-5973

98 Bedford Street, Portland Campus

Education

MFA, Fiction Writing, University of Iowa, 1999

BA, English and Women’s Studies, University of New Hampshire, 1992

Research Interests

Fiction writing, Contemporary fiction

Justin Tussing directs the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing and the Stonecoast Writers’ Conference. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and is the author of two novels, Vexation Lullaby (Catapult Press) and The Best People in the World (HarperCollins). He has a wife, three kids, and an indeterminate number of chickens.

Selected Publications

Vexation Lullaby, Catapult Press
The Best People in the World, Harper Collins

207-780-5973

98 Bedford Street, Portland Campus

Education

MFA, Fiction Writing, University of Iowa, 1999

BA, English and Women’s Studies, University of New Hampshire, 1992

Research Interests

Fiction writing, Contemporary fiction