Dan Leach
Assistant Professor of Foundation Studies and English
Department(s)
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, College of Humanities and Social SciencesCredentials
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College
About Dan Leach
Dan Leach has published fiction and poetry in The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, and The Sun. Junah at the End of the World, his debut novel, won the South Carolina Novel Prize and received a Kirkus starred review.
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Awards
SCICU Excellence in Teaching Award (Charleston Southern, 2024-2025)
Best American Essays 2024, Notable (for “The Ice Age”)
Finalist for Excellence in Teaching Award (Charleston Southern, 2023-2024)
Awarded Hub City Press’s South Carolina Novel Prize
Awarded Texas Review Press’s Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, South Carolina (2023)
Awarded South Carolina Poetry Society’s Starkey Flythe Memorial Prize for “Ally” (2022)
Editors Prize from Copper Nickel for “Wasp Queen” (2021)
Floods and Fires longlisted for Southern Book Prize (2018)
Pushcart Prize Nominations for “Everything Must Go” and “Basic Decency” (2012, 2016)
Signature Experiences
Assistant Professor of English, Charleston Southern University (2024 - Present)
Faculty Supervisor for Writers Guild (2022 - Present)
Faculty Supervisor for Olive & Ash (2020 - Present)
Managing Editor at Driftwood Press (2015-Present)
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
Junah at the End of the World, Hub City Press, 2025. (Winner of the South Carolina Novel Prize).
Stray Latitudes, Texas Review Press, 2024. (Winner of the Southern Breakthrough Poetry Prize)
Dead Mediums. Trident Press, 2022.
Floods and Fires. University Press of North Georgia, 2017.