John Dalton

John Dalton was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of seven children. Upon graduation from college, he received a plane ticket to travel around the world, a gift from his brother, Jim. So began an enduring interest in travel and foreign culture. During the late 1980’s, John lived in Taiwan and traveled in Mainland China and other Asian countries. He also met his wife, Jen Jen Chang, in Taiwan. After returning to the U.S., John studied fiction writing at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and was awarded a James Michener / Paul Engle fellowship. He published short stories in Story, The Alaska Quarterly Review and other literary magazines and received a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award and first and second year fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. John completed Heaven Lake over the course of eight years while living in St. Louis, waiting tables, working in a bookstore, and teaching writing courses at local universities. Most recently, he has taught fiction workshops at Washington University’s Summer Writing Institute and the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. He lives with his wife, Dr. Jen Jen Chang, a public health researcher and professor at St. Louis University, in St. Louis Missouri. John Dalton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and teaches in the MFA writing program.

He is at work on a second novel.

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