#  Andrew Krivak 

Visiting Lecturer on English

 

 

 



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Education: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (1986)

M.F.A., Columbia University (1990)

Ph.D., Rugers University (2003)

Interests: Fiction Writing

Selected Works: *Like the Appearance of Horses* (Bellevue, 2023); *The Bear* (Bellevue, 2020); *The Signal Flame* (Scribner, 2017); *The Sojourn* (Bellevue, 2011); Editor of *The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edger Irving Williams, 1902-19012* (FDU Press, 2009); *A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).

Andrew Krivák is the author of five novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and two works of nonfiction. His 2011 debut novel, *The Sojourn*, was a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He followed *The Sojourn* with *The Signal Flame*, set in fictional Dardan, Pennsylvania. His third novel, *The Bear*, received the Banff Mountain Book Prize for fiction, the Massachusetts Book Award, and was a four-year National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. *Like the Appearance of Horses*, released in 2023, returned to the characters and landscape of Dardan, Pennsylvania and was a *Library Journal* selection for “Best Literary Fiction of 2023.” His fifth novel, *Mule Boy*, will be released February 24, 2026. As a poet, Andrew has published the short collections *Islands*, and *Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves*, and in 2025 received the Moth Poetry Prize. He is also author of the memoir *A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life*, and editor of *The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912*, which won the Louis Martz Prize for scholarly research on William Carlos Williams. He holds a BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis; an MFA in poetry from Columbia University; an MA in philosophy from Fordham; and a PhD in literary modernism from Rutgers. Currently, Andrew is a discussion facilitator with the New Hampshire Department of Corrections *Family Connections* *Center*, and a Visiting Lecturer on English at Harvard. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.



 

 

 





 

 

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