Kirk Glaser

Kirk Glaser

Kirk Glaser earned his Ph.D. in American literature and M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Dartmouth College. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, and Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize.

• Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction (short stories, novels)
• History and Practices of Buddhism in the East and West

Kirk Glaser is a poet and fiction writer whose work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in over fifty publications, including The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, will appear in Spring 2025 from MadHat Press. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, Gertrude Stein Fiction Award Finalist/The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, New Millennium Writings Contest, and Richard Eberhart Poetry Award/Southeast Literary Review. A Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University, he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review. He is co-editor of the anthology, New California Writing 2013, Heyday.

Glaser focuses his writing classes on helping students develop their writerly selves first and foremost through meditation and writing/improv games to find the poems and stories that truly matter to them, while training the editor in each student to develop and refine the work. He focuses his CTW classes on themes of environmental sustainability through the nexus of science, technology and society. As Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review, he works closely with the student staff and practicum classes to build skills in writing, editing, and publishing as well as supporting the growth of the literary and arts community on campus.

• Creative Writing: Poetry, Short Fiction, Young Adult Novels
• American Environmental Writing (Prose, Poetry)

• CTW 1 & 2
• Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Children's/Young Adult Fiction)
• American Literature (Poetry, Fiction)

• Kirk Glaser's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, Sou'Wester, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, is forthcoming from MadHat Press.
• He has also published scholarly articles on the poets Robinson Jeffers and Mary Oliver, and John Muir.
• He is currently working on several poetry manuscripts as well as a speculative fiction novel that involves detectives from the ancient India and current-day California working to solve a murder being blamed on the Buddha.