Gurney Norman, English
Gurney Norman
Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program
B.A. University of Kentucky
Email: gnorman@uky.edu
Phone: 257-1154
Office: 1257 Patterson Office Tower
Gurney Norman graduated from the University of Kentucky and attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellow.
Research
Areas of Specialty: Imaginative Writing, Fiction, Film
Selected Publications
- Divine Right's Trip, a novel
- Kinfolks, a collection of short stories
Anthologies as editor:
- Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes
- Backtalk From An American Region
- An American Vein: Critical Readings of Appalachian Literature.
Norman has written and presented three one-hour documentary films for Kentucky Educational Television:
- Time On The River
- From This Valley
- Wilderness Road.
Three short films, directed by Andrew Garrison, have been based on three of Professor Norman's short stories:
- Fat Monroe
- Night Ride
- Maxine.
He is an authority on the literary and cultural history of the Appalachian Region. He lectures frequently in the Region and enjoys visiting elementary, middle and high schools to teach writing workshops.