Escaping Denver

Teague Bohlen is an associate professor of fiction at the University of Colorado Denver, where he runs the student newspaper The Sentry and serves as fiction editor for the literary magazine Copper Nickel. He works the literary, pop-culture, and sociopolitical commentary beats for the alt-weekly Westword, and his short fiction has been seen nationwide. His first novel, The Pull of the Earth, won the Colorado Book Award, and he's the coauthor of the student-strategy textbook The Snarktastic Guide to College Success. His first collection of stories, a flash fiction-photography mash-up called Flatland, was named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in 2020.