Greg Bills MFA

• M.F.A., fiction writing, University of California, Irvine
• B.A., English, University of Utah

Greg Bills is a fiction writer and teacher. He is the author of two novels, Consider This Home (Simon and Schuster) and Fearful Symmetry (Dutton/Penguin). Consider This Home received strong critical attention and was a Literary Guild alternate selection; it was also published in England by Marion Boyars. Playwright Tony Kushner called it a "wonderful, exciting novel…fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times, very sexy." Novelist Antonya Nelson said in the Los Angeles Times that the main character was "one of the most memorable consciousnesses I've had the pleasure to inhabit in recent fiction." Fearful Symmetry was likewise well received and later appeared in trade paperback from Plume.

Academic Experience

In addition to University of Redlands, Greg has taught at University of California, Irvine, Irvine Valley College, and in the extension programs at University of California, Los Angeles, and UC Irvine. He also has served on the fiction staff at the Community of Writers Conference in Squaw Valley, California.

• Bills, G. (2010). “Before the Red.” Fairy Tale Review.
• Bills, G. (2007). “Jack and the Giant.” In Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales. Wayne State University Press.
• Bills, G. (2005). “Monster and Critic.” Santa Monica Review (Fall).
• Bills, G. (1996). Fearful Symmetry. Dutton; Plume.
• Bills, G. (1994). Consider This Home. Simon & Schuster; Marion Boyars (UK).