Me

Sean Ironman holds a PhD in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida, both with an emphasis in Creative Nonfiction.

In past years, he served on the staff of several literary magazines, such as The Florida Review, The Missouri Review, and The Dodge. Currently, he serves as Nonfiction Editor at Sundog Lit.

While at the University of Missouri, he held a Creative Writing Fellowship and won the Creative Writing Program Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2020. He has also received scholarships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the New Harmony Writer’s Workshop, and Grubstreet’s Muse & The Marketplace.

The winner of Redivider’s Flash Nonfiction contest, he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been a finalist for Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, Yemassee’s Writing Prize in Nonfiction, and twice for the AWP Intro Journals Project Awards.

His nonfiction and comics can be found in journals such as Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, and New South, among others.

Recently, as Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, he joined the faculty in the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University, where he teaches creative nonfiction, fiction, and comics courses.

When not teaching or working on his first book, a memoir titled As Many Roast Bones As You Need, you can find him on whichever bike trail is near a dog park.