Steve Sherwood

In his college years, Steve Sherwood spent three summers working as a trash collector in Rocky Mountain National Park. After college, he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Wyoming and a magazine writer in Texas and Colorado. He earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Montana in 1987 and has taught writing courses at Montana State University and Texas Christian University. His first novel, Hardwater, reflecting his interest in the people and landscapes of the modern American West, revolves around the efforts of a newspaper editor in a small Wyoming uranium-mining town to track down a murderer who has threatened the life of his son. The novel won the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Prize and was published by the Texas Review Press in January 2005. Sherwood is currently seeking a publisher for his latest novel, No Asylum, a mystery set on a national historical site in central Kansas.

Sherwood has also published a number of essays about tutoring and teaching writing. His academic books include the St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors, now in its third edition, and Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (1996, Greenwood Press). He earned a doctorate in rhetoric and composition from Texas Christian University in 2004 and is now the director of TCU’s William L. Adams Center for Writing.