Greg Schwipps (’95) received his BA from DePauw University and his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His essays and short fiction can be found in the collections Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers and Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology. He authored Fishing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, and his first novel, What This River Keeps, was rereleased with Indiana University Press in 2012. In 2010 he won the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in the Emerging Writer category. What This River Keeps was one of thirteen titles named to the Next Indiana Bookshelf, an honor celebrating Indiana’s bicentennial. Greg is a member of the Outdoor Writers of America Association.

He regularly offers Introduction to Creative Writing, upper-level writing workshops in Creative Nonfiction, and the Senior Seminar in Writing, as well as courses in Nature Writing and a Winter Term course, Fishing in Literature. He has previously served as director of the Creative Writing program and associate chair of the English department.

Greg and his wife Alissa live with their two sons, Milan and Arlo, in Greencastle.

Scholarly Publications: 

My novel, What This River Keeps, is published by Indiana University Press as part of their Break Away Books imprint.  (ISBN 978-0-253-00236-5)  I also wrote the third edition of Fishing For Dummies.