For his work, Richard McCann has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He earned his MA in Creative Writing and Modern Literature from Hollins University and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa, where he was a Rockefeller Fellow. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he has lived in numerous places, including Sweden, Germany, and Spain. He now lives in Washington, D.C., where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.

McCann also serves on the Advisor Board of Provincetown Arts, the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Board of Directors of the PEN Faulkner Foundation. He is currently working on a memoir, The Resurrectionist, which explores the experience and meanings of illness and mortality through a narrative exploration of his experience as a liver transplant recipient.
(Source: http://www.richardmccann.net/about.php)