Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Daniel Vilmure is the author of two novels, Life in the Land of the Living and Toby's Lie. The Los Angeles Times called Life in the Land of the Living "remarkable," and the New York Times described Toby's Lie as "superb." Toby's Lie was nominated for a Lambda Book Award. A Fulbright Senior Lecturer to the University of Jordan and Istanbul University, he was also the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Residence at George Washington University and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, UCross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Gumusluk Akademisi. He has published short fiction in the New Orleans Review as well as scholarly articles on Woody Allen and John Patrick Shanley for the American Writers Series. His play, Anne X, was chosen by the Detroit Repertory Theater for its New Play Festival. His original screenplay, Cyril, was a finalist for consideration in the 2009 Outfest Screenwriting Lab. A Tampa native, Daniel Vilmure is a graduate of Harvard, Stanford, and Essex Universities.