Background
Anthony Hoagland was born on November 19, 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States. His father was an Army doctor, and Hoagland grew up on various military bases throughout the S.
Anthony Hoagland was born on November 19, 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States. His father was an Army doctor, and Hoagland grew up on various military bases throughout the S.
Anthony was educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa (B.A.) and the University of Arizona (M.F.A.). According to the novelist Don Lee, Hoagland "attended and dropped out of several colleges, picked apples and cherries in the Northwest, lived in communes, [and] followed the Grateful Dead..."
Anthony currently teaches in the University of Houston creative writing program. He is also on the faculty of the low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
In 1995 Anthony married Betty Sasaki.