David Philip Mullins, MFA

Professor

Professor

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Contact

DavidMullins@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
English
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 130 C

David Philip Mullins, MFA

Professor

Professor

David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, which won both the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award.  He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Ecotone, Third Coast, Fiction, Folio, Post Road, Gulf Coast, and the anthology Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest.  He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from Yaddo, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Stanley Elkin Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

English

Position

Professor

Books

  • , The Brightest Place in the World 2020
  • Mullins David Philip, etal Greetings from below 2012
  • Mullins David P., Greetings from Below: Stories. 2012
  • Greetings From Below
    Mullins David Philip, Crash Site On A Desert Mountain Outside Las Vegas [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Greetings From Below
    Mullins David Philip, Longing To Love You [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Greetings From Below
    Mullins David Philip, True Love Versus The Cigar-Store Indian [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Greetings From Below
    Mullins David Philip, A Familiar Place [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Mullins David P., The Young and the Shiftless: Justin Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever 2011

Publications

  • Folio
    Mullins David P., Crash site on a desert mountain outside Las Vegas
    25:1, p. 10 - 13 2010
  • Ecotone
    Mullins David P., Arboretum
    6:1, p. 158 - 172 2010
  • Fiction
    Mullins David P., The Last Thing in the World
    55, p. 49 - 63 2010
  • The Yale Review
    MULLINS DAVID PHILIP, This Life or the Next
    97:4, p. 119 - 137 2009
  • The Massachusetts Review
    Mullins David P., Glitter gulch
    50:3, p. 445 - 460 2009
  • New England Review
    Mullins David P., First Sight
    29:2, p. 86 - 94 2008
  • New England review (1990)
    Mullins David, Driving Lessons
    25:3, p. 126 - 142 2004
  • New England review (1990)
    Mullins David, True love vs. the cigar store Indian
    21:2, p. 103 - 113 2000

Grants

  • The Houndsman, A Novel-in-Progress/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

  • The Houndsman, A Novel-in-Progress/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant