Otis Haschemeyer is

1.  a great dad, 

2. funny,

3. a former Stegner Fellow, a Spivey Fellow, a Chancellor's Fellow; a recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship; a winner of a Margolis Prize and Jeffery E. Smith Editor’s Prize; a contributor to Best New American Voices 2003 & 2009; a resident of McDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross,  and La Citi Internationale des Arts, Paris; published in The Sun, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Barrow Street, and others; and an MFA,  Ph.D.