Lyman Grant

Lyman Grant is a professor and writer living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and from Texas A&M University. For almost four decades, he taught at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, where he taught development writing, composition, American literature, humanities, and creative writing. Lyman also served as chair of the developmental writing department, chair of the developmental studies division, chair of creative writing, dean of arts and humanities, and interim dean of communications. He retired from administration and full-time teaching in 2017. His essays, reviews, and poetry have been published in a variety of periodicals and anthologies, including Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Texas Observer, Texas Books in Review, Langdon Review, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Creative Pulse, Feeding the Crow, Literary Austin, Best Texas Writing, Words in Concert, Bearing the Mask, Endlessly Rocking, Unlocking the Word, Endlessly Rocking, Five Friends, Is This Forever or What?, and many others. He is the co-editor of The Letters of Roy Bedichek, editor of two volumes of Writing Texas, editor of the anthology Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary, and co-author of the writing text, Common Sense: A Handbook and Guide for Writers. His poetry has been published in one chapbook, Established Parameters (Shoal Creek Gallery) and in six volumes: Text and Commentary (Mandala Publishing), The Road Home (Dalton Publishing), As Long as We Need (Black Buzzard Press), Last Work (Applewhite Design), Old Men on Tuesday Mornings (Alamo Bay Press), and 2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports (Alamo Bay Press).