Brian Evenson

Brian Evenson is the author of Altmann's Tongue (Knopf, 1994), and is a professor of literature and critical theory at Oklahoma State University, on leave from Brigham Young University, where he was asked to discontinue publishing fiction or risk his status in the Mormon Church. Evenson earned his Ph.D. in critical theory and English literature at the University of Washington. He is father of two daughters and he and his family live in Provo, Utah.