Dennis Humphrey Member Member since 2012

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Cross-genre fiction, poetry, and non-fiction

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction

Dennis Humphrey is an Associate Professor of English at Prince William Sound College in Valdez, Alaska with a Ph.D. in English with Creative Writing emphasis and over 20 published pieces in journals like StorySouth and Dunes Review. He spent many of his formative years roaming the ridges of rural Western Arkansas. As a veteran living with PTSD and anxiety, his work explores neurodivergent and disabled perspectives, reflecting his own lived experience.

Me rethinking priorities after running with the bulls

Location:: Valdez, AK
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Dennis Humphrey's Publication History

Dec 2025

Writers Resist published This Is the Way Our Words End

Interview with Dennis Humphrey

Where do you prefer to do your creative work?

Wherever I am. I haven't figured out how to write where I am not, but I am working on it.

If you could only take one book on a ten-year voyage, what book would you choose?

The one I am writing at the time. That should give me just about enough time.

What makes you procrastinate when you could be doing your creative work? What are your strategies for finding focus?

Doing my day job. It's a bad habit, and one I'm trying to break.

What single creative achievement are you most proud of?

My kids, though they were co-authored.

What fictional character would you most like to be?

Dennis Humphrey, award-winning author, master of the query process, and successful serial square peg.

What advice would you give to a young, budding writer (or artist) with less experience than yourself?

Bless your heart

For your first draft (or sketch), do you prefer analog or digital tools, or a mix?

Whatever I have at hand: Pages, No.2 pencil and my journal, a burnt stick and the back of a rejection letter...

Do you incorporate generative AI/LLMs into your creative process? If so, how?

No, never for creative processes. I do consult it as a souped-up search engine, and I have been known to consult it for legal, financial, and relationship advice, but never for something as important as creative writing.

What is your favorite word and why?

Yes. What the heck is yours?

What would you like your epitaph to say?

Well, that didn't go as planned

Are you an unreliable narrator?

Sure, I mean, I guess. Aren't we all? Why? What have you heard?

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2026