University of North Texas 
John Tait Ph.D., M.F.A.
Faculty
Associate Professor
206A Auditorium Bldg
- Ph.D. University of Missouri
- M.F.A. University of New Orleans
- M.A. University of Toronto
- B.A. University of Toronto
John Tait's short stories have appeared in Narrative, Crazyhorse, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, and elsewhere and have been reprinted in New Stories from the Southwest and the Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Anthology. He has been the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Writers and has also received the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Tobias Wolff Fiction Award, the Rick DeMarinis Award, as well as first prize in the H. E. Francis Literary Competition, the Dogwood Fiction Awards, and the River City Fiction Awards. He is currently fiction co-editor of American Literary Review. www.johntait.org