Faculty
Rus Bradburd
College Instructor
Email:
coachrus@hotmail.com
Office Address:
NMSU Department of English
Dept. 3E
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
Phone:
505-646-2949
Fax:
505-646-7725
Education
MA New Mexico State University (NMSU) 2002; Las Cruces, NM
Biographical Statement
Rus Bradburd earned his MFA from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 2002. He coached basketball at NMSU and at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) for fourteen seasons. His fiction has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Southern Review, and Aethlon, and his essays have appeared in SLAM and Bounce Magazines, as well as the LA Times and Houston Chronicle. Bradburd's memoir about coaching professional basketball in Ireland, Paddy on the Hardwood, was released in the Fall of 2006. His biorgraphy of racial pioneer Nolan Richardson is now under contract with HarperCollins imprint Amistad.