Dana Wilde talking

Who is this

Dana Wilde at present works in the newsroom of the local daily and recently taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine at Augusta. He has in previous incarnations also been a full-time English professor, managed a publishing company, served Fulbright Scholar appointments in South Africa and twice in China where he lived in Shanghai and Xiamen with his wife Bonnie and son Jack, knocked on doors for city directories, fired editors, hired writers, operated rip saws and gigantic planers that could devour a man's shoulder, pumped gas, won university awards for research and a doctoral dissertation, played guitar in small-time rock bands, written stories, poems, reviews, newspaper columns, essays and literary criticism, sold paint and wallpaper, designed and written direct mail advertising, coached college basketball and cross-country, lived in Bulgaria, traveled in England, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, France, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Hong Kong and Romania, advised literary magazines, laid out newspaper pages, edited a newspaper poetry column, written many headlines, been a night and weekend counselor in a halfway house for prison inmates, reported college hockey news, explained the practical value of literature and philosophy to audiences in China, Eastern Europe, South Korea, New York and Maine, and made this website.

He lives in Troy, Maine, with his wife Bonnie Woellner, a great English teacher. His son Jack plays drums and guitar and used to write startling poetry, some of which appeared in Xavier Review of New Orleans and the Bangor Daily News; he lives in Gardiner now.

You can contact Dana Wilde at dwilde@dwildepress.net.

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