Evenson stated that his book contract was a "significant factor" in his being hired, and he included some stories from the collection in his application. While a new professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University (BYU), Brian Evenson published Altmann's Tongue, which included scenes of violence such as characters who are forced to eat mutilated tongues and who attempt to cut off their own limbs. While teaching at BYU, Evenson was involved in a controversy surrounding his first book Altmann's Tongue (1994). He was Professor of Literary Arts at Brown from 2003 to 2015. After leaving a teaching position at BYU, he held positions at Oklahoma State University, Syracuse University, and the University of Denver before being hired at Brown University. He received degrees from BYU (BA) and the University of Washington (MA and PhD). As a young man, Brian Evenson served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in France and Switzerland. His father, William Evenson, was a longtime professor of physics at Brigham Young University (BYU) and later an administrator at the same school. Since 2016 he has taught in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, both in the Creative Writing MFA program and in the Aesthetics and Politics MA Program.īrian Evenson was born Augin Ames, Iowa. He has also written non-fiction, and translated several books by French-language writers into English. Evenson makes frequent use of dark humor and often features characters struggling with the limits and consequences of knowledge.
His fiction is often described as literary minimalism, but also draws inspiration from horror, weird fiction, detective fiction, science fiction and continental philosophy.
Brian Evenson (born August 12, 1966) is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B.
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