Andy Farkas
Associate Professor Creative Writing and Fiction
English
College of Arts and Sciences
- Contact
- RM 115Morgan Hall1700 SW College AveTopeka, KS 66621-1117785.670.1604
- Degrees & Certifications
- Kent State University, Bachelor of Arts
- Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville, Master of Arts
- University of Alabama, Master of Fine Arts
- Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy
- Teaching
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- EN 209 A, Beginning Fiction Writing
- EN 300 VA, Advanced College Writing
- EN 300 VC, Advanced College Writing
- EN 300 VD, Advanced College Writing
- EN 305 A, Advanced Fiction Writing
- Scholarly Interests/Activities
- Fiction writing, playwriting, screenwriting, creative nonfiction writing, absurdist fiction, postmodern fiction, cult films, film noir, neo-noir.
- Career Accomplishments
I am the author of a novel, The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press 2019), and two collections of short fiction: Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press 2009) and Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books] 2019). My work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. I have been nominated six times for a Pushcart Prize, with one Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXV and one Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013. My novel was a finalist for the 2019 Big Other Fiction Award, a finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES humor award, and was on the Entropy Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2019 list. I am also the fiction editor for The Rupture (the re-brand of The Collagist).
