Professor and Associate Director of the Black Mountain Institute

Education:

• BA - U of Puget Sound
  
• MA - Sophia U
  
• MFA - U of Iowa (1976)

Prof. Wiley is the author of Soldiers In Hiding (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for best American fiction and reissued in 2007 by Hawthorne Books), Fools' Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Indigo, and Ahmed's Revenge. His most recent novel, Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show, was published by the new Michener Series at the University of Texas Press in 2007. Wiley has been a member of the UNLV English Department faculty since 1989.