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Mitch Wieland has an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Alabama, and a
B.S. in Marketing from San Diego State University. He has taught on the faculty of the
Department of English at Boise State University since 1996. One of the founders of Boise
State’s MFA program, he was its director for four years, and continues to serve as
founding editor of the award-winning literary journal 'The Idaho Review'. 

Wieland's novel "Willy Slater’s Lane" received starred reviews in
Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist, and was optioned for a film. The New York Times called
the novel “immensely moving.” "God’s Dogs", his novel in stories, was named the
Idaho Book of the Year in 2009, a finalist for the 2010 John Gardner Fiction Book Award,
and was also cited as a Book of the Year by New West.com. Wieland has been the recipient
of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship,
and two Literature Fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. As a Boise State
University Arts and Humanities Fellow in 2011, he was afforded time and space to work on
a major restructuring of a 450-page novel draft called "Enka Men". Set in Japan
— where he lived and worked from 1986-1991 — the book follows an American family of four
through a year in Tokyo as they restart their lives in the wake of personal financial
collapse. Through multiple viewpoints and varied plotlines, the story explores cultural
transcendence, social and political boundaries, generational misunderstandings, the
changing institution of marriage, unique bonds of family and many other important
existential themes. 

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