Rate My Professor Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of English at DePaul University in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, teaching creative writing within the Literature faculty. He directs the DePaul Publishing Institute and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit press established in 2011 with colleagues Chris Solis Green and Michele Morano to promote social justice through literature. Harvey earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Michigan in 1991. Prior to joining DePaul in 2009, he taught creative writing at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of New Orleans. Earlier, he held journalism positions at United Press International, In These Times, and Outside magazine.

Harvey is renowned for his contributions to both fiction and creative nonfiction. His short-story collection The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books, 2024) won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Work of Adult Fiction, the Journal Non/Fiction Prize from The Ohio State University Press, was a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Best Book of the Year, and was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. His nonfiction books include The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Chautauqua Prize, named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Michigan Notable Book of 2020, an Amazon Best Book of the Month in History & Biography, and a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Award for Biography and Memoir; The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House, 2000), a national and international bestseller; and Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America (Random House, 2008). He edited The Garcia Boy: A Memoir by Rafael Torch and How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence, an oral history with over 50,000 copies in print (Big Shoulders Books, 2011-2012).